Tag Archives: Blogging tips

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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 [...]

What about blog sidebars?

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 [...]

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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 [...]

SEO from a layman perspective

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 [...]

Protecting email addresses

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.

WordPress and SEO

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 [...]

Zemanta – Blog me up!

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 [...]

Put your best foot forward

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 [...]

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Chris Garret writes about Get a Gravatar. Scott Sehlhorst goes into details, How To Create Your Gravatar.
DailyBlogTips posts about Take Screenshots with Firefox 2.0. That is how I found out about Screengrab!.
Put Things Off posts about The Creative Sweet: Creativity Should Be Free, listing lots of free software.
Brent Hodgson posts The Story of the Three [...]

WordPress and spam problems

One of my other blogs got targeted with spam comments, all aimed for one specific post. I did turn of comments for that post but that did not help, I have gotten 5,200 spams in a short period of time. Akismet properly catches the spam comments but I wanted to stop spam from getting into [...]