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If you’ve been on the blogosphere for a while, chances are you’ve heard the term “The Long Tail.” I won’t give you a dissertation-length explanation because other people already have, so here’s the gist of The Long Tail: Keywords. The longer your search term, the narrower the niche, the longer the tail; the shorter you search term, the broader your niche, the shorter the tail.

What does that mean for you?

When it comes to blogging, nothing is more difficult for me than design, and when it comes to design, nothing is more difficult for me than picking a color scheme. Thankfully, though, I am married to a designer who is little by little teaching me to think like a designer. In the not-so-distant past, I decided to mix up the colors on my personal blog, and Chris used the opportunity to teach me the method he uses for generating a color scheme. Very little color theory was involved, which I was thankful for because I tried reading his color theory textbook, and I couldn’t get past page two. If you’re a blogger who isn’t a designer, I can imagine you have a hard time picking color schemes, too, so let’s use my personal blog as a case study and walk through his process.

You made it! This is the last Blogger’s Guide to Feedburner post, and I’m sure your pimped-out feed is drawing new subscribers like flies. OK, getting subscribers isn’t that easy, but at least you’ve got a great feed. So far we’ve set up your feed in Feedburner, familiarized ourselves with the Feedburner site, learned how to analyze and troubleshootize your feed, optimized your feed with extra features, and publicized your feed to other web sites. All that’s left, is networkizing and monetizing your feed.