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This entry is part of a series, No BS Blogging» Disclaimer
The tips in this chapter come with a price.  While I can personally guarantee that following the tips presented here will increase your traffic tremendously, you might want to ask yourself if you can handle the repercussions that come along with them.
Sitting in the [...]

This entry is part of a series, No BS Blogging» What Is A Niche?
The buzzword of the blogging world is “niche”.  Every blogger is supposed to find his or her niche and then move on to hold a substantial amount of the readers in that niche.  But what exactly is a niche?
The simplest definition [...]

This entry is part of a series, No BS Blogging» Trackbacks are an internal mechanism that blogging software uses to “ping” a blog that you have posted a link to.  This allows the owner of the blog that you mentioned know you’ve written something about what they have written.
Wikipedia defines a trackback as follows:
A [...]

I wish I could tell you that from personal experience, but alas, I’m nowhere near those numbers yet.  Even though I’m not qualified to give you that information, I know of someone who is, his name is John Scalzi.
You may have heard of John.  He’s an incredibly talented and successful Science Fiction Writer and former [...]

When I started the frst experiment in incresing blog traffic in 30 days several things happened.  Some were expected (such as increased traffic!), some were not.  Unfortunately, the things that I did not expect invalidated the results of the experiment completely.
My food blog at cbsop was picked up by a food blog advertising network, which [...]