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To anyone who is familiar with the Monetization Makeoever series and would like to see their own site get made over: today is your lucky day. I am accepting site submissions via PMs, and will choose one lucky winner for next week's MM. Before submitting your site, be advised:

• I reserve the right to be brutal in the review
• Many will enter, few will be chosen
• I will not reply to the PMs
• Please do not reply to this post with site suggestions, PM me instead. (If you do submit via a reply here, Nick will nuke it, don't test him!)

Performancing launched with a splash, we got noticed early and in a big way. We used every trick in the book including buying ads. You don't necessarily need to get big fast though, there are some advantages to "small and quiet" versus "big and loud".

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When the Bloglines Plumber is making an appearance, I realize just how dependent I am on Bloglines. Not as a reader, I've long prefered a desktop app to a hosted solution for this very reason, but traffic-wise, a site like Performancing relies pretty heavily on the blogosphere's #1 reader.

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Your blog is competing with millions of other websites for attention. You have mere seconds to make that all important first impression, mess up and you might as well pack up and learn to knit. What can you do to make a great lasting impression?

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This time of year is perfect for looking back and looking forwards. Most blogs have a bit of a lull around about now due to your audience being overstuffed with rich stodgy foods and over indulging in festive spirit. Take advantage and get ahead.

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Only a tiny percentage of web users even know what RSS is and even fewer of that group actually use a feed reader. Are you missing out on subscribers by not serving the majority of your readers with an easy way to subscribe?

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Having mentioned earlier that the typical blog navigation by archives and/or calendars really isn't the best way of guiding your visitor around your professional blog I thought I'd like to expand on that a bit with a traditional graphic experience of a very successful tried and tested method. Are your archives/calendar necessary or are they taking up valuable real estate?

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I was due to speak at SES Chicago this week, but due to some unexpected passport problems, a bunch of missed flights and other minor disasters missed my slot by about half an hour. All is not entirely lost though, i'd planned to give this PDF out after my talk, and although some of you may find parts of it very basic (the audience is quite different to the Performancing readers), I think many may get some value out of it. You can download Tagging for Links and Traffic in PDF, and you're welcome to comment or ask questions in this post.

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After noticing some very enjoyable trends in design recently, I got to thinking about how following the fashion trend, this time around anyway, might just help professional bloggers.

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You'll want to make it easy and comfortable for your readers to use your blog, because only then will they feel comfortable with you as an authority on your subject, and a trusted source in your niche. With that in mind, here are 10 easy things you can do to make your blog more usable.

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I recently wrote about giving some consideration to your blog exit strategy which stirred up quite a bit of debate elsewhere (Blogspotting - Blog Exit Strategy? We're just getting started) about whether we’re actually trying to walk before we can crawl here? In my view there is a yes and no answer to this:

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Before you run headlong into posting lots of lovely content to your blog it is useful to take a step back and think about how you are going to organise one or two things. Some small adjustments now could make a world of difference later.

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In a recent article entitled “Googling For Gold” written by Roben Farzad and Ben Elgin of Business Week I found myself nodding vigorously at their excellent analysis of where the Google phenomenon currently stands. The $120 billion dollar Google Gorilla now rides inexorably on a wave of investor sentiment. Showing some parallels with the first internet bubble, - this has brought a whole host of entities such as venture capitalists and investment bankers together in an effort to come up with businesses and technology that the mighty Google may want to gobble up one day.

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Choosing a name for your blog is like choosing a name for a child, choose carefully. How do you go about selecting the perfect name?

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