Category: Ten Years of Down the Road
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Choosing a place to share your content online and why I stick with WordPress.com
Anytime you choose to publish your work online you make tradeoffs. For most people, WordPress.com offers the most benefits and the fewest challenges.
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What’s the point of blogging if nobody reads what you write?
If you’re blogging, some part of you wants to be read. So write in a way that draws in readers and keeps them interested. Otherwise, what’s the point?
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How to blog more often
What I’ve learned in ten years about how to blog frequently.
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Why I probably won’t watch your vlog or listen to your podcast – and why I probably won’t create my own
Blogs be skimmed and scanned, and can be read anywhere. Podcasts and vlogs, not so much.
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How to attract readers to your blog – and keep them
Even though you’re almost certainly never going to become rich or famous through blogging, with effort and patience you can build a rewarding regular readership, and start to form a community with your readers. I’ve learned a lot about how to do this in my ten years of blogging. Some of it I’ve figured out…
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Longtime subscribers to this blog: I’m making changes to my subscription services and they might affect you
On following DTR by email.
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The whole point of blogging today is to build community
If you hope blogging brings fame, forget it. It brings community — which is more valuable.
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So… tell me a little about you
As part of this blog’s tenth anniversary celebration, I turn it over to you. Tell me about you!
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Ten years of Down the Road
Some thoughts on ten years of blogging.