Blogger Conrad Hees published a post titled “Why You’re Nobody Until You Have a Blog” a few days ago, and I’ve only just discovered it.
It’s worth your time to read it.

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Only a quick post today, but before I get into the topic I wanted to say “Thank You” to the 500+ people who cared enough to stumble last Friday’s post. It was great to see that traffic spike!
Caroline Middlebrook has just released her new free eBook “How to Develop Money-Making Niche Sites with WordPress“. […]

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Here’s a totally off-topic post, but this little problem took some chasing down & now that it’s fixed I want to crow a bit about my technical excellence (not).
It should be fairly obvious this blog is a work in progress. Next week I’ll have real masthead images up, and copy it over to its real […]

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Two days ago, guest blogger Alister Cameron published a great piece of research on www.problogger.net. He went through Google’s Blogsearch patent application and uncovered a few pointers about how Google ‘may’ rank your blog posts. I highly recommend you read the article and comments , and don’t forget to pay a visit to Alister’s own […]

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One observation before I close my admin panel for the day. Over the last five weeks the Firsthit web site has been receiving around ten spam comments posted to various blog entries each and every day. One day there was nothing, then there they were!
This coincided with Firsthit’s Alexa ranking breaking into the […]

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