Today’s Brief: ‘More Comments.’Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.net has another set of suggestions designed to generate more reader comments.Worth checking out by clicking here.

Today’s Brief: ‘Groundhog Day Resolutions.’Fellow blogger and design guru, David Seah, has a system of using (what he calls Groundhog Day Resolutions) to check his progress on various goals. Sounds like it could be an excellent way to check the progress of your blogging goals, yes?Check out David’s post on Groundhog Day Resolutions here.

Ask a blogger who they think is one the most authoritative blogging influences and the response you’re likely to hear is “Darren Rowse.” Darren’s ProBlogger.net has become the definitive resource for authoritative yet practical information for bloggers both professional and part-time. The case study below presents a view of ProBlogger as a blog-religion. In it, I’ll look at what supports ProBlogger’s religion status and what doesn’t.

Blog As Religion – Why build simply a blog when you can create a religion and inspire an army of zealous evangelists!Click here for more info!

As you know, I offer a Free eBook on this site that teaches you how to plant and maintain a ‘blog-post-garden.’binoIt’s the method most successful bloggers use to guarantee fresh content for their blogs on a consistently frequent basis.A Snapshot of My GardenEven though it’s totally free (with no-up-sell), some wonder if this is right for them.

OK, while Carrie Ann Moss might be my idea of a futuristic goddess, she’s not part of the Holy Trinity I’m talking about. 8-)What I’m talking about forms the crucial foundations for truly successful blog-religions.In this post, we’ll examine the three elements every blog-religion must incorporate into it’s structure in order to attract followers, convert them into believers and ultimately produce an army of evangelists.

A common myth about blogging is that you need massive amounts of traffic and RSS readers to realize any significant return on investment.More visitors, more money, right?If you have a thousand hits per day to your blog, you’re bound to benefit.  That’s the conventional wisdom and it’s true in most cases.But what happens to your blog income when traffic dies?