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Finding the perfect Web host for your blog

December 12, 2007

Sponsored post. Ready to launch your new blog? Excellent. Now you’ll need to make an important choice – where to host your blog. Finding a good Web host can make make or break your blog. You want Web hosting that’s reliable: up-time is vital, as is your host’s ability to take sudden traffic increases in [...]

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Blogging: how often do you check your stats?

September 30, 2007

How often do you check your stats? It’s OK To Be A StatsAHolic says: “While there are lots of good reasons to check your stats, gaining more traffic from search engines is one of the very best. Mining known site data is one of the best ways to manage your SEO campaign. If you can [...]

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WordPress can drive you crazy before you make money

September 24, 2007

If you want to make money blogging, there’s no better blogging platform than WordPress. But… I’ve been blogging since 2001 and switched most of my blogs to WordPress a couple of years ago, so the horrors of getting WordPress to behave exactly as I want it to are lost in the mists of time. However, [...]

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Mini blogging with Twitter – tweeting for profit

September 15, 2007

Do you tweet? I’ve recently added Twitter to my blogging mix, and it’s fun. But since I’ve just started, it’s too early to work out whether it brings traffic or anything else. Scott Karp has a great post on Twitter: Twitter Is Now An Extension Of My Blogging – Publishing 2.0. He says: I’m definitely [...]

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Block trolls and nuisances from your blog

September 13, 2007

Lorelle has an excellent post on eliminating trolls and pests from your blogs: Attack of the Mean Commenter: Blocking Commenters and Comments on Your WordPress Blog « Lorelle on WordPress Unfortunately you will get the occasional lunatic commenting on your posts; just delete the comments. Let them play in their own sandpit. It’s YOUR blog, [...]

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Changing the theme on your WordPress blog

September 4, 2007

I love WordPress because you can change your theme (template) with a single click. In less than one second, you can give your blog an entirely new look. Unfortunately, the very ease with which you can change your themes leads to some challenges and even outright disasters. When I first started using WordPress for my [...]

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Blog search – use blog search to get answers

September 1, 2007

I love blog search engines, especially Google Blog Search. When I have a problem with something or other. Blog Search has (so far) never let me down. For example, currently my irritation-of-the-day is Namecheap, a site I use to buy domain names. I wanted to spend a relaxing couple of hours this morning setting up [...]

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FeedBurner: get burning, and get traffic

August 20, 2007

One of the easiest ways to get people to come back to your blog is to burn a feed with FeedBurner. Yes, blogs do come with built-in RSS, but FeedBurner has so many useful features that standard feeds pale in comparison. Many people swear by feeds, and set great store by the number of feed [...]

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Mini-blogging: Twitter and Tumblr for fast blogging

August 13, 2007

It took me a while, but I’m finally coming to see the sense of the mini-blogging applications like Twitter and Tumblr. I wrote a post on Twitter for writers on my writing blog, and the information certainly applies to bloggers too. If you don’t have time to set up a blog, a mini-blog gives you [...]

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Fabulous FeedBurner feeds: new one-click integration with your Blogger blogs

July 29, 2007

I’ve been using FeedBurner for years to burn feeds, not only for my blogs, but also for several of my static sites. (Burn a feed and let people subscribe if you add content regularly, it entices them to return.) FeedBurner is great not only for your readers, but also for you, because it allows you [...]

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