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Thanks Darren. You produce quality videos. Let’s see some more.

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Exellent post. Evertytime I read your post I learn something usefull, something that can add valut to my website etc. You definetly make a great first impression! Thanks.

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Thanks for the valuable information Darren. Its very important for a baby bloggers to turn first time readers in to subscribers. your always inspired me.

thank You,

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Good guest post… learned a few tips from it.

Jon
http://Buzvia.com - Where’s Your Traffic Going?

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A very good article and will figured out problems with a blogger. The main problem a blogger face is distraction which not make there blog grow fast.
Focusing on writing great content is the most important part and most of the blogger fails in this part. In this article Leo Babauta has pointed how not to get distracted this is the advice I liked most.

One more thing where are you Darren there are not much post these days from you. I am waiting for your post.

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Amaziiiiiiiiiiing post. I could not think how much time and energy you invested in this post. I would take me a month to do so and the product might be much worse than this :-)

Thanks

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Darren it was quite useful and impressive!!

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What a fantastic post and a great read for people who almost allow blogging to take over their life (me)! I do not actually count the number of hours I spend on my blog but I feel it is too much.

Thanks for this post! I am very much enlightened!

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nice advices and suggestions, however, i always do think before writing a blog post, that what impression is it going to put on the readers, but it happens that apparently i dont succeed in getting the right kinda traffic perhaps. that is also one major issue you might wanna discuss about Darren????

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But if you don’t have anything to do, you can extend that limit or just consume that extra time on other tasks. But it’s good to set limits and pressure yourself. In reality, 2 hours is not enough if you want to grow your blog fast. :)

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Thanks for the video. Very enlightening. Yes, it’s always very important to leave great first impressions on readers. With the gazillion pages on the Internet, it’s most unlikely that your readers will return if you turn them off the first time. Thanks for sharing.

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thanks for remaind me, the useful guide…..with limit time …getting bigger result

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focus on big bloggers is good but getting more wide networking on blogger more better…..agree, nice tips

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Well, for me these guidelines open my eyes a little more concerning to expose my blog which is also a Magazine and Radio Station. I find really hard to monetize my blog without the usual tools bloggers have to do it. I use the old fashion way of selling add space, to bands, promoters, record labels. I think extending even more my blog way down with more space ads would be a little too much for the blog itself. I hate ads, I don’t like to scroll down a page because of one or two ads, and I thing I’ll never do that on my blog.
With so many blogs and websites on the WWW, every day is hardier to promote and expose our daily work.
Oh, by the way, and maybe I shouldn’t say this, but I found my self as one of the few persons who write and try to promote music, bands and related subjects almost (well ’till today) for nothing. It’s a pleasure to write and help our Idols!

Cheers all!

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Leo -
Wow, what perfect timing. Having been blogging for a little over a year, and hitting somewhat of a plateau, I’ve been searching for ways to increase traffic. I came up with a list of ideas, and half of them were on your “non-essential” list.
I love your “one hour per day” and guest posts ideas. And most importantly, you’ve reminded me it’s all about great content. That’s going to ne my #1 goal for 2009.

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Well, readers retention should be the first thing in mind when creating a blog. I can’t agree more about providing value and useful information. This advice is evergreen.

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I always worry about the first impressions that I present, because I know that a lot of work has to go into the impressions that you create and sometimes this doesn,t happen overnight with good first impressions.

But I am certainly trying hard with the great content.

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Great advice, I will certaintly use it. The last question is especially important. “How can you make it better?” Value creation is definitely the most important aspect of blogging.

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This was definitely a hard-hitting video for most bloggers! Very useful, and super informative. I do agree with the above commentor that the competition is definitely fierce, and no longer can mediocre blogging gain quick momentum like it used to before the onset of the mass bloggers of present day.

Anyhow, thanks for sharing! (even if it’s been a year or so!) - Nice suit as well!

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Now I don’t feel so bad after checking out these stats! There are a whole lot of people in the same boat as me!

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Being #1 is great, but it’s tough competition. My reward is when a fan or friend walks away with more knowledge and understanding from one of my blogs and they let you know it publicly.

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Leo that’s a bingo!

I couldn’t agree more on the importance Guest posts. I really helps your reputation and gets you noticed fast. I try to do at least 2 to 3 per month when time permits, but hope to do more soon.

Thank you!

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Great article!

I find that many of us who have a main source of income blog as a hobby, and I am one of those bloggers. I do in fact try to monetize my blog, and have made some coin that bought me neat toys.

If blogging was a living I would be a grunt and turn over every stone I could find.

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“what I mention is that your content needs to be of the highest quality to create a good first impression”

In my opinion, this is where most bloggers fail.

Even if you have everything else wrong with your site, the content will help bring in readers. The rest will help increase that, because as you say, people make quick judgments and will leave based on their initial reaction. It can also help differentiate you if you’re blogging in a competitive niche.

Most people don’t realize what they write, or how they write it, just aren’t worth reading. Some people just can’t clearly put their thoughts into words or just don’t think about anything interesting.

That’s why you see so many people copying content from other sites such as blogs that just copy and paste news articles without adding anything of value.

The sad thing is that many people don’t realize this. I remember some study a few years ago that basically said incompetent people don’t realize their incompetent.

You’ve probably run into people like that at work. You know, the people you wish you could grab and shake during a meaning yelling something like “what the hell are you saying?!?!?!?”

People getting into blogging now have a lot of competition. Before blogging started to gain momentum, you could be mediocre and still gain an audience, but now you’re hard pressed to find a niche that hasn’t been tapped so you need to be outstanding to get even a little bit of traction.

Good advice in your video though for those people that have something worth reading.

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Darren, Thanks for the informative piece. I am just contemplating creating my own blog - I’ve been posting on other blogs for a couple of years - so the information is quite useful.

I have some experience in live perfomance and I think It’s very telling that your live presentation skills in this piece back up what you are saying about the written word. Your skill at speaking without blinking is remarkable.
Tom Vincent

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