Today's Tips: How to Win Over Blog Readers, Impress Booksellers

• Copyblogger's Dean Rieck shares his 7 secrets for raising the popularity of your blog.  From cracking jokes to staying helpful, being a fan favorite often has just as much to do with likability as content creation

• Galleycat rounds up their top tweet picks from yesterday's hashtag #waystoimpressbooksellers. Authors, publicists, and readers weighed in with suggestions of increased Q&A time, sending thank you notes, and openly expressing disdain for Amazon.com