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It happens to me from time to time. As I sit down and begin to write a blog post, I start to feel like this could be one of my best pieces of work yet. Then I am faced with a dilemma. Should I post this now, despite having very little readership, or should I wait and deliver this gem once my audience is bigger.

I’ve arrived at two different ways of thinking about this problem.

If I was to publish such great content now then it would attract more readers to my blog. Oppositely if I post it now and not many people see it, then it may become buried. After that point it will be much harder to resurrect it when I have more fans. It may even become lost forever. Which leaves me in a difficult position.

I have tried both methods with some measure of success and also with great failures.

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Today many people have the mindset of globalization and trying to captivate the entire world as their audience. When you are just starting off its good to have such big aspirations but by thinking like this, you may be overlooking one of the most powerful niche’s right at your fingertips. Your local community.

Before you start to think about scaling your blog you should know what makes you the best and why will people prefer to come to your site vs. a competitor. Sure you may be an exceptional writer with new and fresh ideas, but are you better than the Wall-Street Journal? Probably not.

I started to think about this after reading this article on Mashable:How To Launch Your Own Indie Journalism Site. In summary its about how recently laid off workers have started their own niche news blogs and becoming very well known.

So could I compete with the Wall-Street Journal…No, but it did get me thinking. In my local area there is a Big 10 school and only one official local news source. After checking out all of online local authorities I realized that me and 2 other people could absolutely crush all the competition in this area. Not just the news, but in almost any niche. Mostly because there is 0 competition.

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There are soo many wonderful plug-in’s and widgets to use in the world of Wordpress and blogging. How do you know which ones are good and which ones are just average? The only way to tell is to give them a shot or ask your friends. As a rule I try to do any code myself, but if there is already a plug-in that does it better I’m up for using it. Here are my TOP recommendations for Wordpress plugin’s.

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Once you have your blog up and running it can be frustrating to see that your traffic doens’t take off right away. There are lots of ways get traffic that take alot of manual effort. Once I figured out how to write articles that want to be read, I began to see a lot of new traffic coming to my pages that didn’t require any effort on my part, because people were already looking them.

The key to a successful article is to write with purpose. Many times a post is just a repeat of something that’s has already been said before or its a random collection of your thoughts. If you want what you’ve written to be found by people then you need to keep the reader in mind from the beginning. Before you even start writing, you should think about why this person is going to want to read this particular article. What question are you answering? What need does this article fufill for the reader?

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Everyone has experienced it before. You sit down at the computer and prepare yourself for a massive blog session. Food, check. Drink, check. Music playlist ready, double check. Turn off the phone, look left, look right, you’re all alone. It’s just you and your keyboard and who knows where this adventure is going to lead….

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Matt Cutts from Google gave a lecture at this years Wordcamp detailing some of the more important details of blogging. According to Cutts, Wordpress automatically solves 90% of the Search Engine Optimization mechanics of us.

The rest of the work is determined by your pagerank, your reputation, and the relevance of your article to the search query. Matt gives some very valuable tips on how to increase your search engine traffic. As well as how to find keywords in your niche, and how to write better articles. For anyone who has their own blog, this video is a MUST SEE.

When creating award winning content you need to take into consideration the fact that many of your readers are going to be (a.) in a hurry and will skim through your article very quickly (b.) too lazy to read every word (c.) doing countless number of other random multi-tasking things while simultaneously reading your article.

For this reason it is very important that your posts are easy for people to read. There are a few simple and easy things you do to improve the overall readability of your blog.

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When you first begin your blog, starting with the very first idea that you may want to create a blog, there are a number of obstacles you will come across. Usually the idea or inspiration comes first, and then comes thoughts of layout and design. So after a month of back and forth setting up the perfectly thought out theme weighing all your choices, you can now sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labor. However this is actually point where you will encounter the most difficult part of blogging. Finding your style. When you have no traffic its almost impossible to know what the masses of people expect from you.

Your first few rounds of blog posts kind of feel like open mic night at a local pub. You most likely have been working on some material up in your head for some time now, but until this day you’ve never actually said it out loud for people to hear.

The key to this is for better or worse to just put everything you’ve got out there then sit back and watch the people react. In the beginning I found myself going from one extreme to the other, trying to appeal to a variety of readers. However the more I tried to get the attention of everyone, the more I succeeded in gaining the attention of no one.

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A quick and easy way to set up an email subscription list for your website using Feedburner on a wordpress platform. Takes less than 2 minutes.

Here is how you can create an email list in just 5 steps:

0. Before you can start you must set up an account and Feedburner Feed

1. Log in to Feedburner.com

2. Click on publicize

3. Go to “Email Subscriptions”

4. Copy the code

5. Create a new text widget and paste the code

*Done*