Category Archives: Blogging Basics

Blogging Basics – Keeping Your Blog Active

July 28, 2010 – 10:54 am

One of the biggest challenges your blog faces is staying active. When creating a blog is so easy to do that everyone and their grandma has one, what leaves many blogs abandoned by their owners is the pressure of constant updating. Let’s face it – blogging takes some work. It’s sort of like having a [...]

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You want more website traffic?

July 22, 2010 – 11:12 am

The most common complaint I hear from website owners is that they aren’t getting enough traffic to their website. More traffic = more business… but how can you increase your traffic? 1. Pay Per Click Campaigns While setting up a pay per click campaign may not be right for everyone, most website owners usually see [...]

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Facebook Like Button for Your Blog

May 12, 2010 – 4:36 pm

While some might argue that Facebook is trying to take over the world (or, at least the internet), there is no denying their impact on millions of people’s daily routines. A fun way to integrate Facebook with your blog is to add a “like” button to it. Not only will the liked content show up [...]

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Blogging Basics – Register Your Blog With Technorati

April 9, 2010 – 12:12 pm

There are plenty of ways to attract readers to your blog. Let’s talk about one of the more popular ways – Technorati – and how you can use it to make your blog accessible to thousands of people. Technorati is a blog search engine, and one of the biggest ones out there, indexing over 100 [...]

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Social Media Plugins for Your WordPress Blog

March 19, 2010 – 10:16 am

We love WordPress. And we love social networking. There are plenty of ways to connect the two – here are a handful of them. Sexy Bookmarks See the fancy pop-up icon bar at the bottom of this post? That’s Sexy Bookmarks, one of my personal favorites when it comes to WordPress plugins. Not because it’s [...]

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Blogging Basics – Dos and Don’ts

March 5, 2010 – 4:11 pm

“A blog is like a garden, it should be tended to and one should pay attention to the little details.” Not my words, but Scott Hanselman’s, in this great article about blogging dos and don’ts. While posted in 2007, it still contains a lot of good starting points for any new blogger – and some useful [...]

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Traditional or WordPress Website?

March 3, 2010 – 3:57 pm

Should you convert your website to a full Word Press site? If you have been hearing the buzz about moving your static site to a full blog site, then read on. There are certainly pros and cons with making a move like this, and this article tries to bring those to light. Pros of building [...]

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Blogging Basics – Blog Etiquette

February 23, 2010 – 4:08 pm

Have you settled on a blogging platform? Great. This is your ticket to the virtual universe known as the blogosphere. But before you launch, there are some things you might want to consider to make this trip as rewarding as possible. 1. Target Audience First of all, you need to have at least a basic [...]

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Blogging Basics – Hosted or Self-Hosted Platform?

February 11, 2010 – 9:40 am

Ok, so you’re online. You have a website, a Twitter account and a Facebook profile. Now what? Sounds like you’re ready to start blogging. A weblog is an excellent way of reaching an audience, getting new clients and visitors to your website, and – best of all – you are not limited to 140 characters. [...]

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