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	<title>Findable Blogging&#187; Create your Twitter profile</title>
	<link>http://findableblogging.com</link>
	<description>Learn to build and market your blog to get more traffic</description>
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		<title>Create your Twitter profile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that you have signed up for a Twitter account, it&#8217;s time to get ready for your debut. Many people&#8217;s first instinct is to immediately look for other people to follow, but that&#8217;s a mistake. Why? Because on Twitter&#8230;
First impressions are crucial!
When you follow someone, they will usually get an email telling them so, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://findableblogging.com/create-your-twitter-profile/</link>
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		<title>Set up a new email account</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you'd like to set up a special email for your blog, it's pretty easy and you can continue checking your email in the same way you always have.]]></description>
		<link>http://findableblogging.com/set-up-a-new-email-account/</link>
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		<title>Understand RSS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This video is the best short explanation of RSS that I know of.

RSS is also sometimes called a &#8220;feed,&#8221; so don&#8217;t get confused by those who use the terms interchangeably.]]></description>
		<link>http://findableblogging.com/understand-rss/</link>
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		<title>Choose a Twitter username and sign up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Your username on Twitter is more important than on many services. Not only is it part of the URL that people will go to in order to see your profile (the format is http://twitter.com/username), but when people address you directly, they&#8217;ll use your username, and their followers will see it. This gives you the opportunity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://findableblogging.com/choose-a-twitter-username/</link>
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		<title>Learn about Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you understand Twitter, you can use it to get more traffic to your blog.]]></description>
		<link>http://findableblogging.com/learn-about-twitter/</link>
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		<title>Ask an easy question</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you ask an easy question, you&#8217;re giving other Twitter users the opportunity to interact with you with a minimum of effort&#8230; and that makes it much more likely that they&#8217;ll respond!
Think about it: do most people prefer essay questions or multiple-choice quizzes? A multiple-choice question is the ultimate easy question. Answering it requires almost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://findableblogging.com/ask-an-easy-question/</link>
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		<title>Get feedback on your blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it&#8217;s hard to distance yourself from your blog enough to know if there&#8217;s something wrong with it. It also doesn&#8217;t help that &#8220;something wrong&#8221; is a completely subjective concept in many cases.
The problem is that visitors will rarely tell you if there&#8217;s something about your blog that they find difficult—they just won&#8217;t come back.
Possible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://findableblogging.com/get-feedback-on-your-blog/</link>
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		<title>Get a Google Account</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t already have a Google Account, you should get one—it will come in very handy for future tasks (like using Google Analytics to track your blog visitors).]]></description>
		<link>http://findableblogging.com/get-a-google-account/</link>
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		<title>Instructional Posts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s easy to forget that you didn&#8217;t always know the things you know now. Fortunately for you, this knowledge can help you write popular blog posts.
Instructional posts are basically your standard &#8220;how-to&#8221; posts. It can be as simple as thinking of something you know that your ideal reader would like to know, and writing a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://findableblogging.com/instructional-posts/</link>
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		<title>Describe your &#8220;ideal reader&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why focus on an &#8220;ideal reader&#8221;?
In blogging, like any other aspect of life, trying to please everyone usually results in pleasing no one. Not only will keeping your ideal reader in mind help you avoid straying too far from your goals, it also makes the actual process of writing easier.
Consider how much more quickly words [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://findableblogging.com/describe-your-ideal-reader/</link>
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