http://www.blogtrafficschool.com/blog The Official Blog Traffic School Blog Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:23:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In case you missed it, I submitted a tip to Darren Rowse's Problogger.net, which became part of his series called "reader quick tips" which he published over the last few weeks of November. The quick tip was called Don’t Be An Insular Blogger, where I outlined that it is important ... http://www.blogtrafficschool.com/blog/46/dont-be-an-insular-blogger/ One of the Build A Better Blog duo and Blogsquad founder, Patsi Krakoff has written about how she doubled the traffic to her ezine blog in one week and speculates some reasons why it occurred. She concluded that her traffic increased because she did the following things: Wrote to her blog everyday ... http://www.blogtrafficschool.com/blog/45/blog-traffic-tips-from-patsi-krakoff/ It's still hot - blogging that is - at the rate of 100,000 new blogs per day the Blogosphere is still booming according to popular blog tracking and search engine tool Technorati. Here's some summary data from David Sifry post, State of the Blogosphere, October, 2006 Technorati is now tracking more than ... http://www.blogtrafficschool.com/blog/44/state-of-the-blogosphere-october-2006/ If you are currently a student who blogs you can enter for a $5000 scholarship thanks to Scholarships Around The USA. We're giving away $5,000 this year to a college student who blogs. Our scholarship is awarded annually. You have to write a 300 word maximum application essay about blogging to be ... http://www.blogtrafficschool.com/blog/43/blogging-scholarship/ Although this feature won't properly launch until the first students enroll in Blog Traffic School there is no reason why any blogger can't join me immediately and start recording field reports in their very own blog traffic diary in the official Blog Traffic School Forums. What Is A Field Report? A blog ... http://www.blogtrafficschool.com/blog/41/join-me-in-keeping-a-blog-traffic-diary/ Read the first part of this series: Competing For Attention In An Attention Deficit Blogosphere There is only one way to be an exceptional blogger - find what it is about you that makes you exceptional and funnel that through your blog. You must leverage your unique special talents in every ... http://www.blogtrafficschool.com/blog/40/how-to-be-an-exceptional-blogger/ Blogging has changed since I first started back in 2004. For me, 2005 were the glory days. Blogging was booming but it wasn't super-popular like it is today. Back then you could start blogging and in a matter of weeks or a few short months establish a solid foundation of ... http://www.blogtrafficschool.com/blog/39/competing-for-attention-in-an-attention-deficit-blogosphere/ Andy Wibbels, affectionately known as the "Original Blogging Evangelist" and author of BlogWild! A Guide For Small Business Blogging, is about to start his latest course, Keyword Essentials (aff). Andy has a fun style of teaching and uses teleconference audio to deliver his strategies. His courses are a great way to ... http://www.blogtrafficschool.com/blog/38/keyword-essentials-by-andy-wibbels/ I figured it was about time to get some form of "coming soon" page on the BlogTrafficSchool.com index page. You can take a look for yourself and yes, that is me in the graphics - www.BlogTrafficSchool.com The header will only be used for the sales pages and internally for members I ... http://www.blogtrafficschool.com/blog/37/header-footer-graphics/ My friend Will Swayne on his blog asks whether blogging is the killer SEO tool for businesses? As I've written about previously the number one goal if you are working on your blog's search engine optimization, is to gather all those incoming links from authority sites. Will proposes that some of ... http://www.blogtrafficschool.com/blog/36/blogging-the-killer-seo-tool-for-business/