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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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Tea Trade: A Tea Blogging Platform, Online Tea Marketplace, And Forums

Today’s post features a website that I have been a big fan of for some time, Tea Trade. Tea Trade, founded by Jackie and Peter Davenport (who also are behind Leafbox Tea), is an extensive online community centering around tea, which offers a very diff…

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Tea Nerd: Featured (Inactive) Tea Blog

Today I want to do something a little odd and unusual, which is to feature a tea blog that is no longer active, and that has not had a single post since March of 2011. This blog is Tea Nerd, run by Brent Hughes. I haven’t been in contact with Brent, …

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Featured Tea Blog: Lao Ren Cha by Neil Gorman

I have decided to start a series of posts featuring various tea blogs that I like and subscribe to.Today’s post, the first in this series, is about Lao Ren Cha, a blog run by Neil Gorman, whom you can find on Google+ and also on twitter. There is, inc…

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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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Conveying Authority While Writing on Controversial Subjects

Recently I wrote about whether or not and how to host informational tea articles on tea company websites. One point I made in that article was that well-written informational articles can convey an impression of authority or expertise, which can benef…

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Informational Tea Articles On A Commercial Tea Website

This post, continuing my series on best practices for tea company websites, explores the question of whether or not, and how, to include informational articles about tea on your website.This screenshot shows informational articles about tea on RateTea….

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Top 5 EzineArticles Articles Sending Traffic to RateTea

I publish on a number of different websites. One site I publish on is EzineArticles, an article directory. Article directories are websites which solicit articles in exchange for free publicity–an author contributes free articles, in exchange for (s…

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My Top 5 Squidoo Pages on Tea

I publish on a ton of different sites. I’m inherently a bit of a dabbler. One of the sites I publish on is called Squidoo. Squidoo is a bit of a quirky site; the first time I saw it I honestly did not see the purpose of it, and I actually found it q…

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Romanization of Chinese Tea Names: Wade-Giles vs. Pinyin

Buying, selling, writing, and talking about Chinese tea in the English language can be rather complicated and confusing, owing to uncertainty about the names of teas. The Chinese language is unfamiliar and alien-sounding to most English speakers, alth…

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