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Blogging is (believe it or not) just like the restaurant biz. Many things will influence choices and your first impressions. Reputation, Brand, Comfort and other factors come into play. You have to treat your blog the same way. Don’t think just because you have a great name and an amazing website idea that people will flock to it.




The Art of Community Optimization – Maximize Your Blog’s Potential
Most of us know about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and the benefits that can be enjoyed when a blog is perfectly optimized within its niche for relevant search engine traffic. However, with the massive changes taking place on the web and additional avenues created everyday for attracting new traffic we cannot focus on SEO alone. This is where what I like to call Community Optimization comes in. Community Optimization is definitely a subset of Social Media Optimization (SMO) but let’s focus on how we can develop and grow our blog’s community directly through community building interactions and practices.
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