I’ve been using BloggingZoom for a full week now. So far I've had 14 articles go "Hot." So what kind of traffic is that bringing to my web site? Here are my numbers and a few suggestions.

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It’s hard to believe it’s only been two short weeks since BloggingZoom launched. As most of you know by now I liked the idea and implementation so much that I jumped in with both feet on day one and haven’t looked back yet. I feel it’s paid off for me in a big way.

What I really wanted to talk about this week, however, is the amount of tra

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Yesterday I mentioned that I had purchased a ready made review website that was made for the sole purpose of promoting an affiliate product. All I had to do to the site was change the affiliate links to my own and get myself a domain name.

I got the domain name yesterday and it didn't take long to change the affiliate link

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The best part about writing is you can do it anywhere. Sitting on the bus jotting down notes, at school, in the office,at lunch time and when you really make time to write something special. The hardest part is deciding what you need to write about and what needs to be told. Always carry a notebook with you because its hard t

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"Images. To use them, or not to use them? That is the question. Surprisingly enough, the answer is simpler than the question. Do use images on your blog! There are plenty of reasons why, and we will cover many of those reasons in this article...

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˙sɹoʇıʇǝdɯoɔ ɹnoʎ ɯoɹɟ ʇno ƃuıpuɐʇs ɟo ǝldıɔıɹd ǝldɯıs ǝɥʇ ʎq ƃuıʇǝʞɹɐɯ ɟo ʎɐʍ looɔ ʎllɐǝɹ ɐ

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How should you write articles for a niche blog so that you can produce them quickly? In this article I compare writing articles for a niche blog to how fast food is made. It's quite different from writing articles for a social blog just like serving a meal is a lot different at Burger King than it is at a fancy fine dining restaurant. Find o

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Many components must come together in order for an article we've written to be "good" from a literary sense. In this article we will take a look at how you write. Meaning the tone that your writing sets with the readers.

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Do you love WordPress plugins? Now, take a preview of the top 10 favorite plugins, with screenshots of key features, by an experienced WordPress BlogMaster. Need SEO plugins? You'll find a couple of great ones. Master of plugins? Bet you'll find a couple here you haven't tried yet. This a great list with everything from time savers (

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I thought I'd take another look at my experiences and ideas on writing niche blog articles. In the article, I discuss which article writing styles are working better, longer ones or shorter ones, good content vs. poor content. I also mention some of the techniques I'm using to push visitors toward the ads. But be careful befo

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I have a blog on a boring topic that I am trying to get links to. You can read Part 1 of my link building efforts here. In that article, I discussed how I created an article that would appeal to a lot of blog carnivals, and then submitted it to some carnivals.

The next thing I did, which will be the subject of today’s post, is to submit th

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I used to never be much of the type of blogger that planned things out (aka, the smart blogger). The only planning I ever did was write my posts the night before and timestamp them to publish the next morning. However, I never knew what I was going to write until I sat down at the computer. On really bad days, I wrote something that didn’t tu

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Like anything in life, we need guidance. We need to go through the learning curve. We need exchanges of good ideas and profound insights to become better bloggers. So, as we head towards the end of 2007, here's a list of some of the great articles (in my opinion) that I have come across this year that will give you food for thoughts and, mos

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The Bum Marketing method gained a lot of traction over the past few months. More and more people promote article submission as an excellent way to obtain backlinks and to drive traffic to your niche sites.

But where do you submit your articles if you decide to give it a try? Where do you get some free content from? Here you can find 77 art

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Apparently this is the week for articles with "2008" in the title. With so many floating around I decided to pick just two to go on the 5 for Friday list—and they're good ones. I'd like to welcome Dustin Brewer to the list this week. His list of Digg-like social networks for designers is a great one and I've enjoyed his other posts as we

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There’s a reason why WordPress is so popular (well over 1 million installations, according to WordPress.org), and aside from the fact that it’s user-friendly, it is also set up to help you optimize for the search engines easily and effectively. Adam McFarland gives you some great tips in this article -- a real taste for why WordPress has beco

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This is a guest post at http://piggybankpie.com which charts the progress from blogging to freelance writing. The big question for many beginning writers is how on earth they are going to get the necessary writing done in time on their first freelancing gig.

If you write for a living or even if you just blog for pleasu

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