Guy Kawasaki has a useful post, 10 lessons he’s learnt in How to Evangelize a Blog over his first 120 days of blogging.

Here’s his list:

1. Think �book� not �diary.�
2. Answer the little man
3. Collect email addresses
4. Collect links for blog rolling
5. Scoop stuff
6. Supplement other bloggers with a followup entries
7. Acknowledge and respond to commenters
8. Ask for help
9. Be bold
10. Make it easy to join up

If you want your readers to come back to your blog often, you have to help them. Here are some tips on how to help your readers…

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Paul Stamatiou has released Part 5 of his K2 customization series. This time he has explained on how to compress CSS and images. Here are all the 5 parts of his customization series.

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The posts listed here are the most popular in the last 3 months. This I believe will be useful for first time visitors.

I have made this post sticky so that it will help more people

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Follow these simple rules for search engine optimization and your blog will rank much higher in Search Engines.

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Readers were asking me to remove the pop-up ads through comments and mails. Some even mailed me screenshots of errors they encountered with pop-ups.

So I have removed them and promise you that I will never put them again

Copyblogger has a great post on the two most important words in effective blogging.

You must really check it out because it’s worth it.

The third point on an article written by Tech-Recipes,Top 10 things you should know about the Digg Effect, says – Digg traffic does not generate new users, comments, or posts.

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Liz wrote a good article on the benefits of outlinking that I want to share here.

1. Outlinking to quality sites can add relevance to your own blog. The key is to link to quality blogs that your readers might also like. That gives your blog a more natural connection within the weblike structure of the Internet. It also boosts your ranking in cluster search engines such Teoma.Google even checks your “neighborhood,” to see who’s in it. Want to see what Google sees?
   Type related:domain.com
   like this
   related:johntp.com
   in the Google search box to see your Google neighborhood.

   Outlinking has given me readers and many backlinks later. So I completely agree with this point.

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