The Writer’s Coin

I mentioned last week that I tried reading Getting Things Done, the productivity book that is so popular, but didn’t have time to get through it. There was quite a bit of response around that post so I wanted to share what I took away from the 30 or so pages I did read. Those [...]

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Day 11 of Building a Better Blog is here. Today’s tip is one that is close to my heart because I’m a big fan of baseball stats. So Analyzing my Blog’s Stats means digging into the numbers to try to discover new things about the site and ways to make it better.
I’m a big [...]

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Day 10 of Building a Better Blog is here. We’re almost halfway there and today’s tip is to Declutter Your Sidebar. Clutter can accumulate over time all over a blog, so paying attention to specific areas like the Sidebar is very helpful.
Coincidentally, I just took a look at this last week when I [...]

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When I was in grad school getting my MA in Writing, a really cool professor of mine got a published writer (and professor from another school) to come to our workshop for a little Q&A. After reading and talking about all these amateur stories (for the most part), it was nice to have a real [...]

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Last week I got a nice email from a reader that went like this:
I just wanted to email you and let you know I think your blog is great!  I just
stumbled across it by clicking the link in a comment you made on MyDollarPlan
(mainly because I was curious about the name “The Writer’s Coin”).  Very glad I
clicked my [...]

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Well, I’m back from getting married so it’s time for Day 9 of Building a Better Blog. This tip is essential for your blog if you have decided to run ads on it: Run an Ad Audit.
The idea here is to take a look at your existing ads and play with their placement, color, and [...]

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Time for Day 8 of my Building a Better Blog series. Today’s tip is a classic that you’ll see just about everywhere in the blogosphere—Comment on a blog you’ve never commented on before. I’m a big believer in this one because you let your writing do the talking and based on that alone people will [...]

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Day 7 of my Building a Better Blog series just happens to fall at the perfect time: I’m getting married on Sunday and today’s tip is to Plan Ahead. Since I have family coming in this week and I’ll be gone from Thursday to Thursday of next week, I have to plan ahead if I [...]

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Day 6 of my quest to build a better blog rolls right along. For those of you new to the series, I’m just following ProBlogger’s Guide on a day-to-day basis. Day 5 was about performing an About Page audit.
We are all the way to Day 6 and I’m not sick of this series yet, so [...]

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Ready for Day 5 of my quest to build a better blog? It’s simple, I’m just following ProBlogger’s Guide. Day 4 was all about Interlinking Archived Posts.
Today’s task is to perform an About Page Audit. This is a part of the page that I’ve always thought of reworking. “I’ll get to it eventually,” is as [...]

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