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Google Reader: A Must-Have for Bloggers

by james on February 27, 2012

The following post is from James of Google+ Tutorials:

Source: Google

Lately, I have been reflecting on the challenges that we can face as bloggers. For everything that is awesome about blogging, there are also things that are really tough. Within this section are things like keeping yourself organized, staying inspired, planning your posting schedule well, etc. The list goes on!

I thought that it would be helpful to share a few tools that I use to help me with the less glamorous side of blogging. Today I want to talk a little bit about a tool that I love and I don’t know what I would do without, Google Reader.

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No Partial Feeds, Please

March 10, 2011

As bloggers, we have lots of opportunities to increase our traffic and/or our income, but it’s important to evaluate each of these opportunities from our readers’ perspective rather than only looking at the benefits to our blogs. A perfect example of this is the use of partial feeds. Some bloggers publish only a small excerpt [...]

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Blogging 101: How to Get Feed Subscribers

November 2, 2010

The following post is from Jo-Lynne of Musings of a Housewife and DCR Design: Last month I discussed feed readers and how to subscribe to blogs you want to follow. Now let’s talk about burning your feed to Feedburner and getting your readers to subscribe to your feed. Why do I want to want to [...]

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Subscribing to Blogs in a Feed Reader

October 6, 2010

The following post is from Jo-Lynne of Musings of a Housewife and DCR Design: When I first started reading blogs, I was quickly overwhelmed with all the fabulous new sites I discovered. I started by adding them to my computer’s bookmarks so I could check back, but before I knew it my bookmarks were out [...]

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