Emily from How to Blog on May 29th, 2009

I frequently receive email from readers of How to Blog, sometimes thanking me and other times with blogging questions that they have which they hope that I can answer. In many of the latter cases, I am able to answer their questions and get them back happily blogging. But there are times when [...]

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Hi Everyone - THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR BLOGGERS (and all users of the internet)
Please read the following and sign the petition to preserve Network Neutrality
Do you blog, buy books online, use Google, or download to an iPod? Everything we do online will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law next week that gives [...]

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So, you want to start a new blog. Maybe you don’t have much experience with blogging, so you don’t think it’s that big of a deal which platform you choose or whether you have your own domain name. Well think again.
Don’t fall trap to the disaster that I landed myself in, where I [...]

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As is often the case whenever there is a free tool available, it gets abused by spammers. Such has been the case with Google’s free Blogger service, and lately they’ve been very active in trying to delete blogs that they view as spam (aka splogs).
Normally I’d say that’s a good thing, but [...]

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