First of all, thanks to the 77,173 unique visitors who have come to Karma Rogue since I launched it October 15th. I made this blog to entertain people but have had little time to invest in promoting it or getting involved in the blogging communities. Luckily or deservingly, other people have spread the word for me and google has been fairly kind as well.

Since the beginning, I’ve taken pride in providing daily updates and keeping the site advertisement free. In order to keep the site advertisement free I have employed a very conservative layout that really keeps the server from working unnecessarily hard.  Daily updates, however, have been a bit more of a challenge lately. I’ve gone through some life changes that you can read and see a little about on my personal blog if you wish.

Anyways, things have calmed down as much as I am willing to let them which means that I will do my best to provide daily updates once more. Feel free to shoot an e-mail to karmarogue [at] gmail [dot] com if you have something you’d like to see posted here.

I vow to continue to provide random, entertaining content without dishing out advertisements and will do my very best to return to the daily updates format in the coming week.

In the first “Learning to Blog” post, I was really, really new to the blogosphere. I had little-to-no idea what I wanted with karmarogue.com. I had read several blogging-tips sites that said: “Above all else, your blog should have a focus.” Here I am, on day 50 of my blog’s lifespan, and I still have very little direction.

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I uncovered an older but yet still well written ‘guide to getting blog readers’. It starts off with a very appropriate quote by Dylan Hunt: “Every man is the hero of his own story.”

“How do you get people to read your blog? This guide will tell you how to gain readers, how, in effect, to be heard. It discusses how to approach blog content, design, launch, writing your blog, marketing and revisions.”

Read on for my dissection of this informative, albeit lengthy, article.

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Italian bloggers and web site designers are going to have to deal with new regulations. Ricardo Levi, the undersecretary to the President of the Council, has worked up a law to shut the Internet up. Approved on October 12 after unanimous agreement, the Levi-Prodi law requires that anyone with a blog or a website must register it with the ROC, pay a tax, and produce certificates even if they have no intention of making money. Sounds like some real bullshit as having the ability to quickly start blogging is an important reason blogging is so powerful.

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Are you a blogger interested in SEO? Then you can’t pass up the opportunity to watch this very nice video featuring Matt Cutts lecturing on whitehat SEO for bloggers.

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I’m new to the blogosphere. So new, in fact, that until yesterday I could have cared less about Technorati. I’ve decided to publish my learning process so that other people who are thinking about blogging for (high levels of) traffic can learn along with me.

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