Archive for the 'Blogging tips' Tag
Jul
19
Link Medley blogging
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North x East has a post about the Fifty Most Influential ‘Female’ Bloggers.
ProBlogger has a guest post by Steven Snell about A Blogger’s Guide to Branding with Social Media.
The post by Steven Snell at ProBlogger led me to his site Traffikd and A Small Blogger’s Guide to Social Media Marketing.
Pro Blog Design writes about 7 [...]
Jul
11
Use Google Alerts to keep track
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I use Google Alerts to keep track of who is linking to my blogs and sites. Since you can create an alert for any search term I also use Google Alerts to watch some key words for me. It is an easy way for me to get emails when something interesting pops up on net.
Jul
11
Link Medley writing
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ProBlogger has Nine Signs of an Effective Blog Post listing nine criteria a blog post must satisfy if it is to be a successful post.
Think Simple Now has a post about how to Connect with Your Creative Writer.
CopyBlogger has a guest post by Yuwanda Black about 3 Things to Consider When Deciding How Long Your [...]
Jul
9
What about blog sidebars?
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I have taken time to work on my blogs, behind the scene as well as how they look. Part of that work was creating a list of WordPress plugins that I use at my blogs. Some of those plugins - Best Foot Forward, Random Posts Widget and Tag Functions - give me functionality that I [...]
Jun
23
Link Medley
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DailyWritingTips has a post about What is Creative Writing?.
Another great post at DailyWritingTips is Five Ways to Write Faster.
Whether you need to clear a backlog of emails, write an important document at work, finish a short story, or do your homework, spending hours staring at a blank screen and struggling to come up with words [...]
Jun
20
SEO from a layman perspective
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I must confess that I thought SEO, search engine optimization, was something consultants sold to the big guys and not for small blogs like mine.
More for the sake of it I did install the All in One SEO Pack in WordPress, put in on automatic (the plugin autocreates SEO keywords and excerpt) and forgot about [...]
Published on June 20, 2008
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Jun
18
Protecting email addresses
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When creating my new coach directory, CoachGuiden (in Swedish only), I wanted to protect the email addresses from those that harvest for spam purposes.
I found CryptX, author page at CryptX (in German), which works very well.
See more in my list of WordPress plugins.
Jun
16
WordPress and SEO
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I came across a great article about WordPress and SEO, search engine optimization. The article is WordPress SEO - Definitive Guide To High Rankings For Your Blog and includes eight sections about different things to consider in order to make your WordPress site as visible as possible. Save a link to the article since it [...]
Published on June 16, 2008
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Jun
8
Zemanta - Blog me up!
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I got WordPress Firefox Add-on: Zemanta from Hack WordPress in my mail today. Zemanta looks like a very interesting tool for bloggers. They currently support Wordpress.com, Blogger.com, Typepad.com, and self-hosted Wordpresses from version 2.0 onwards.
Have your browser understand what you are blogging about and suggest pictures, links, articles and tags to make your posts more [...]
May
27
Put your best foot forward
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I had a manually created list of My Favourite Posts in the right hand menu before. It worked but not as easy as I wanted it too. Today I came across the Best Foot Forward widget which allows you to select which tags that shall be listed. I created a new tag, MyFav, and just [...]
