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WordPress.com Blog Bling: Blockquotes and Quotes
Have you had enough blog bling? No? This part of the blog bling series covers how to add emphasis to your blockquotes and quotes in your WordPress.com blogs. So far, the WordPress.com Blog Bling series...
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WordPress.com Blog Bling: Blogroll and Sidebar Bling
I’ve covered adding blog bling to your WordPress.com blog in the form of graphics and photographs, lines and smilies, fonts, blockquotes, social bookmark links. Now it’s time to add some blog bling to...
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How to Install, Configure, and Use WordPress Plugins
WordPress Plugins come in two styles: drop-in and mess with. Those are my terms, not the official ones. Drop in WordPress Plugins are Plugins you upload, activate, and then interact with only through...
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Subscribe, Feeds, RSS, Email Mailing List, Blog Update Alerts, and Newsletter...
Asking someone to “subscribe” to your blog used to mean signing them up on an email list. On a regular basis you would send out an email from that list with news about your site or blog encouraging...
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Are Tags Working For You?
I asked this question on the Blog Herald: Are Tags Working? After Pam of Grassroots Science (Alaska) reminded me recently about the flaws in tags, the lack of consistency and control, I’m asking you...
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Adding Del.icio.us, Digg, Technorati and Slashdot Links to Your WordPress Blog
David Breyer’s article on putting Del.icio.us, Digg, Technorati and Slashdot buttons in your WordPress blog is brilliant and a must have if you are going for good SEO page ranking. It also makes it...
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Social Bookmarking Managers – And the Winner Is?
Quimble has a new poll on your favorite Social Bookmarking Manager going and you are invited to participate. Don’t know what Social Bookmarking Managers are? Well, do del.icio.us, Furl, Spurl, or...
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Customizing RSS Feed Links for WordPress.com and WordPress Sidebar Widgets
With the new feature in WordPress.com blogs to add feeds to your sidebar using Sidebar Widget enabled WordPress Themes and/or the soon-to-be-released Sidebar Widget WordPress Plugin, you now have a...
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One Year Anniversary Review: Social Bookmarking Boom
If you don’t know what social bookmarking or “Web 2.0″ is, you’ve missed the current web fad boat. In a nutshell, social bookmarking is the process of letting the online social network of users judge...
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Social Bookmarking Submit Links on WordPress Blogs
Want more attention for your blog? Then ask your visitors to help you. As part of the ongoing series on WordPress.com Blog Bling, let’s add some social bookmarking links to your WordPress blogs....
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The Real Hidden Value of Old Post Traffic
Since creating my Weekly Digest, I’m forced to look through my blog stats on a regular basis, something I’ve been loath to do for many years. Most of it doesn’t interest me as I’ve been doing this too...
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Blogging Resources and Sources to Help You Blog
As a blogger and professional editorial and technical writer, I have collected a variety of online resources and references to help me write, blog, and work. The following are a list of Internet...
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Blogging Resources: Business and Professional Resources and References for...
As part of my ongoing series on blog resources, so far I’ve covered Blogging Resources and Sources to Help You Blog, Blog Resources for English Language and Blog Writing, and Blog Resources:...
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How to Access Banned WordPress.com Blogs
As discussed in WordPress.com Banned Again: Why Aren’t You Concerned?, WordPress.com continues to be a target for censorship and blocking from various countries and groups around the world attempting...
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When is the Best Time and Day to Publish a Blog Post
I’ve just updated my article, “When is the Best Time and Day to Post on Your Blog?” Originally published in June of 2006, once a year I update the post, continuing to evaluate when is the best time and...
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The Art of the Fan-Based Blog: Community Wins
By DB Ferguson of the No Fact Zone I can promise you, your site won’t be much fun at all unless you start building a community of loyal readers to interact through comments and help enrich the blogging...
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Saying Goodbye to Delicious, MyBlogLog, AltaVista, and Larry King
With the announcement that Yahoo! will retire Delicious, MyBlogLog, Altavista and other Yahoo! services, WordPress users around the world will have their blogging habits change. UPDATE: I’ve updated...
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Prove It: What Makes You Trust a Website?
What makes you trust this site? What makes you trust me? What makes you trust any website you visit? What is it about the site that earns your trust? I’ve asked this question at most of the conferences...
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Blog Exercises: Weekly Link Roundups
Many bloggers publish weekly or monthly link roundups, highlights of some of the interesting sites they’ve found on the web. Most use a variety of automation techniques to generate this link list,...
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The Secret Recipe of Comment Spam Comments
Mr. Louis Vuitton just sent me a message in my blog comments I’d like to share with you. I share this touching message because it is highly educational when it comes to the art of spam comments, and...
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