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This is a guest post by Jason Pereira who blogs over at The University Kid and is currently running an RSS contest with $150.00 in prizes.

Anyone that’s ever tried to run a blog should know just how important readers are… without them, you probably wouldn’t be blogging.

No one likes to blog for empty space, and readers (and comment leavers) can make the difference between you quitting after a couple weeks and you going on to become a blogging mogul. I’d say the readers have the largest impact on a blog apart from the owner – their prods and advice can refine your blogging technique and help develop your blog into a better place to visit.

This guest post was submitted by Sharon Hurley Hall from PiggyBankPie.

If you’re going to have a successful blog, you need to get smart with setting goals. Success does not just happen; you have to plan for it. I’ve found it to be a process of trial and error. I know a lot more about getting a new blog started now than I did two years ago - and I’ve made plenty of mistakes on the way. Here’s what I’ve learned about goal setting.

This Guest Post was submitted by Tracey Sands from Piggy Bank Pie Writing Services. Update from Collin: I am not a huge fan of ebooks but I do know that a lot of people still make a good amount of money from them so I approved this post.You’ve finished your first ebook. It’s a PDF, it has a cover and it’s been proofed. It’s sitting on your website waiting for someone to buy it… but no one has, what gives?

This Guest Post was submitted by Sharon Hurley Hall from Piggy Bank Pie Writing Services. To get your own guest post on Mixed Market Arts, please visit the Guest Post page.

There are millions of blogs out there, so how do you make yours stand out from the crowd? There are proven methods you can use to raise your blog’s profile, but it will take months of good solid work - and it starts before you have even written the first post.

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This Guest Post was submitted by Patrick who blogs over at Piggy Bank Pie. He also runs the Piggy Bank Pie Writing Services which I use and highly recommend myself if you are looking for guest posts as well as ghostwriting. You can see the quality he puts into his work by reading this article alone.

Climbing Digg to the very top and reaching the front page is quite a challenge. Thousands of bloggers are writing content each and every day hoping to print screen their browser showing their story on the top of the world. But sadly, very few will make it to the top. And just like climbing Mount Everest, reaching the summit of Mount Digg depends on multiple factors and steps you’ll need to go through.

This is a guest post by Ethan Christ who blogs over at Poetry 2.0. Ethan is currently running an After Christmas Contest Giveaway with a $50 adsense voucher prize.

Without traffic, your website is just taking up space. If zero people read what you post, then why even bother posting it? Today I am not going to talk about various ways to promote your blog, but rather I am going to tell you what sparks a reader’s interests and keeps a surge of traffic coming to my blog. The answer is simple: Controversy.

This is a guest post from Brian Link who blogs at i am jack’s design

As someone interested in Internet Marketing and making money online, you’ll probably wake up one morning with a brilliant idea for a site or a product. If you have the design or programming talents to bring that idea to fruition than you’re farther ahead of the game than most people. If not, you’ll have to look into outsourcing the development of your brainchild and hopefully some of the following tips on hiring freelance web designers will come in handy for you.

This is a guest post from Sharon Hurley Hall from PiggyBankPie.com Writing Services.

A blog is an easy way to make money online. You can make money from syndicating the content you have written, from contextual advertising and from promoting affiliate products. However, in order to do any of these things and to be truly successful, you need to attract visitors to your blog and raise your blog’s profile. One easy way to do this is by using blog carnivals.

What Are Blog Carnivals?