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The post Why BlogPost Titles Are Crucial appeared first on ProBlogger. One problem that I regularly saw in the days that I took on blog consulting work was bloggers who spent hours and hours slaving over the writing of quality posts only to take 5 seconds to slap a very ordinary title on them.
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The post Create a Resources Page to Grow Your Traffic and Income appeared first on ProBlogger. This post is based on episode 74 of the ProBlogger podcast. How many useful resources have you talked about in your blogposts over the years? What blogging platform is best?”. What tools should I be using on my blog?”.
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