Leo Babauta, the blogger of Zen hobbits, described his 15 tips on blogging.  Among the 15 tips:

• start to have an eye catching and easy to remember name,
• valuable content and with depth
• headline and the first paragraph are important to catch the reader
• have all related resources and links
• with some controversy
• add ads until building up large traffic

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