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Why I Stopped Updating so Frequently

It’s been aeons since I updated! Well, more accurately, since some time late-September, a little over two months.This morning I’m drinking Dao Ren Tea from Mountain Rose Herbs, a pretty straightforward Zhejiang green tea, organic certified, that was s…

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New Social Networking Icon Library For RateTea

I’m pleased to announce a new page on RateTea highlighting a comprehensive selection of RateTea Social Networking Icons, in different resolutions and three different color schemes. The page also has guidelines for making your own icon out of the RateT…

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Top 5 Most-Viewed Teas on RateTea This Month

It’s been a while since I posted a top 5 post. For past top 5 posts, I’ve focused a lot on webpages that have been most popular in an all-time sense. For this post, I’m focusing on the here-and-now, that is, the past month.The following is a list of …

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How To Link Your Tea Company Website to RateTea And Other Sites

This page, continuing my series of best practices for tea company websites, is about linking your tea company website to RateTea and similar sites, including Steepster, group review blogs like Teaviews and Tea Review Blog, or even individual tea blogs….

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My Top 10 Pages On White Tea

Recently, I posted a A Challenge: What Are The 10 Most Useful Web Pages On White Tea?. In this post I demonstrated how the pages that come up in a google search for “white tea” are not all high-quality, carefully-maintained websites and articles, and …

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Reading And Writing Tea Reviews: How Many Teas Like This Have You Tried?

This post is about reviewing teas, and more specifically, about the question of how many similar teas the reviewer has reviewed, when writing a review. I find this question to be of key importance both when writing tea reviews and when reading reviews…

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A Challenge: What Are The 10 Most Useful Web Pages On White Tea?

This page is about a problem that you can help solve if you are a blogger or tea company webmaster, or if you have any web presence whatsoever. The gist of this post is that I am challenging bloggers and webmasters to come up with a list of, and then …

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Top 5 Most-Viewed Pages for Styles of Pure Black Tea on RateTea

This post highlights the top 5 most-viewed pages on RateTea for styles of pure black tea. These styles include both blends defined by their character, like English and Irish breakfast, as well as those defined by their region of origin, like Darjeelin…

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Top 5 Countries Producing Fair Trade Certified Tea, According To RateTea

The issue of fair trade certification is complex, not only in the tea world, but across the board. Anyone who has read my article on fair trade tea on RateTea will know that I don’t see fair trade as an instant solution to the problems associated with…

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RateTea to be Bought Out By Teavana

I’m giving an inside peek here to my most loyal subscribers, before I share the official post via the RateTea newsletter.I love working on RateTea, but it’s a lot of work, and there are a lot of other things that I’ve been wanting to pursue in my life….

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