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Old 10-05-2007, 11:07 PM
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As some of you may know, I run a Civil War blog called Civil War History. I am curious to know from those of you who run blogs, what tricks can I use to increase readership (I post about once a week since the site is tracked by Civil War Interactive) and gain new writers? I want to build up this and my other history sites into something big and just want to know the best ways to go about it. Thanks for your help.
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Old 10-12-2007, 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Daniel Sauerwein
As some of you may know, I run a Civil War blog called Civil War History. I am curious to know from those of you who run blogs, what tricks can I use to increase readership (I post about once a week since the site is tracked by Civil War Interactive) and gain new writers? I want to build up this and my other history sites into something big and just want to know the best ways to go about it. Thanks for your help.

Well, I don't run a blog, but if I did and I needed a model, I'd use Kevin Levin's blog as my model:

http://civilwarmemory.typepad.com/civil_war_memory/

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Old 10-12-2007, 05:30 PM
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Daniel, I just went to look at your blog. After a few seconds the pannel down the right side somehow shifted left and cut off the text of the main part. ????
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Old 10-14-2007, 09:31 AM
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I surfed over to your blog this morning and found it fascinating and extremely well written. If my history teachers had more closely resembled or copied your techniques and attitude, I wouldn't be writing so many dumb things forty-five years later!
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Old 10-21-2007, 11:07 AM
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I took a quick look and found it very informative. I run a blog myself as part of my hobby, mostly based on a book that I've been writing for nearly two years.
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