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I’ve been poor on my bloglines reading recently, and have been struggling to dig my way through upwards of 1400 posts.   Here are 10 Gems that I found while working my way through all those posts

• Lorelle on Wordpress writes on Some tips to limit duplicate content - She states that Google more or less expects a blog to have duplicate content.  After all, that is how they are designed, but you can still take measures to limit the duplicate as much as possible
• Problogger writes about How To Capture Seasonal Traffic For Your Blog - A surprising amount of traffic that flows across the web is seasonal.  It occurs at the same time every year.  If you are in a niche which is somewhat seasonal, you can use this knowledge to both capture new traffic, and recycle your best posts for added exposure.
• Jon at Art of Money spoke on 7 Ways Google Can Ruin Your Life - How much trust do you have in Google.   Sure they say “Do no evil”, but they sure have the ability to do that if they wanted to.  They could do everything from deleting your accounts to ruining your chances at landing a job
• Rich Minx has a list of 30 Blogging Resources For New Bloggers - Some nice sites that you will mostly be familiar with if you have blogged for a while, but that you may not of heard of if you are new at this game.   I found several that I hadn’t seen before and am glad I checked it out
• Chris at Blog-Op has an article on How To Mothball Your Blog - You have put a lot of time and a lot of work into your blog.  You may not want to work on your site right now, but who knows about in the future?  So take the time to mothball your blog correctly, and make sure you come back to it.
• Lorell on Wordpress writes on Blogging with Firefox’s Split Browser Extension.   Since I don’t have two monitors on my home computer, I have been meaning to try out the split browser extension.  I think that it will greatly reduce the time I spend clicking back and forth while writing posts.  Lorelle has inspired me to download the extension sooner than I otherwise would have.
• Daniel At Daily Blog Tips writes on How To Find Advertisers For Your Site - Finding direct advertisers for your site can be the Holy Grail of advertising.  However there is an art to doing it.   Daniel has gotten a couple in the 7 months he has been in business, so find out his tricks
• Jon at Art of Money tells 7 Blogging Tips You Can Learn From The Beatles - What on Earth can you learn about blogging from a band that is almost half a century old? Well Jon thinks that you can learn to blog for yourself first, that you can learn to strive for continual improvement, and value integrity above all else, among others. 
• Scott at Self Made Minds writes about How To Scout Out Domain Names Valuable In The Future - He has a couple of great ideas that I had never of thought of.  I will definitely have to consider some domainineering
• Problogger writes on Using A Point System To Track Progress - Like many of you I have a full time job.  Darren’s tips on keeping track of your blog progress by assigning points to different activities and making sure that you hit a certain number of points every day is a great idea for me.  It will help me keep track of what I should be spending my time on.

Well that’s all for now.  But don’t worry, I still have 1003 posts left in my bloglines que, so another Blogging driveby will be on its way soon enough.