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Blogging tips and tricks for Word Press Users
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Niche Review site question
Todays question: I have a question regarding setting up a niche review blog along with a niche review site. Would you recommend setting them up on separate domains or does it make sense to have the review site on http://www.MyReviewSiteDomain.com and put the blog on are the pros and cons of those t ...
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Do you use do follow?
One of the things that has come about because of blog spammers is the default no follow link built into WordPress. I do understand why they did it but I prefer to reward those that actually take part in the conversation on my blogs. See if you are going to add to my content and good comments do that ...
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Plugins - which ones do you need?
One of the biggest questions that comes up consistently is which plugins should I be using. To celebrate the holidays I will be listing what I am currently using. Now a quick caveat The plugins I am listing are what I am using right now. The plugins change constantly as new ones come and others sto ...
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WordPress 2.6.5 released
Despite the eminent release of 2.7 WordPress has issued a new security update. They skipped from 2.6.3 to 2.6.5 because of a bogus release from someone of a 2.6.4 to make sure there would not be anyone grabbing the bogus download by mistake. You can read the whole post at the WordPress Blog. Once ve ...
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Is your blog a community?
Today was kielbasa day here in the coal region. For us it is not Thanksgiving without getting your kielbasy to have with Thanksgiving dinner. For us that means we go to Kowolaneks to get our kielbasy. Now going there is a trip unto itself. There is always a line even when it is not a holiday but yo ...
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Formatting articles for your blog
Todays question: Hello Great show last night. I dont know if you can help or not Ive been searching for a way to change the format of plr articles Theyre full of goofy code. I copy just the article,but I cant get them to work. I pasted one in my word press blog and the words break and they go edge ...
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WordPress Q and A replay
Here is the replay of the Blog Talk Radio Show Hope you enjoy and your comments welcomed. Mike Paetzold Social Bookmarking Technorati Tags: Blog Talk Radio, blogging q and a, WordPress Q and A Related posts Next Blog Talk Radio show scheduled (1) Blog Talk Radio today (1) My day for a qu ...
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Reminder - questions needed
Tomorrow evening at 7pm est the latest edition of WordPress Questions and Answers will be held on Blog Talk Radio. This works best when I can get your questions and supply you with answers. The replay will be available and I have Steve Roye coming on line with me so it should be a fun time but I rea ...
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Next Blog Talk Radio show scheduled
Okay if at first you dont succeed try, try again. I believe in that and have scheduled the next Blog Talk Radio Show to answer your questions on WordPress in particular and blogging in general. It will be Tuesday November 18th at 7 pm. Blog Talk Radio Show I scheduled it for 30 minutes this time and ...
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RSS feeds for traffic
This is the last post in the blog traffic series this time through . Quite often I see people not use the most powerful part of their blog - the feed. Here are just a few places and sites that you may be using where you can add in your feed and give people a chance to find your blog from things you ...
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Comment Luv Contest - your chance to win and get more traffic
Earlier in the traffic series I discussed blog commenting. Blog commenting is one of those win win situations. The blog owner wins because they get more fresh content and the commenter wins because they get a link back to their site and potential visitors clicking through to their site. Caveat - Thi ...
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Twitter and blogging - get great additional traffic
If you are blogging Twitter is a must. It incorporates quite well with any blog traffic strategy. Twitter is basically micro blogging. You can post as often as you want but have to keep your post to just 140 characters. It makes you get your thoughts into a very compact format. This makes it perfect ...
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WordPress 2.7 preview
Been playing with WordPress 2.7 on my beta test blog and it is definitely going to make blogging easier. Here is a quick view from WordPress of some of the new features. Lots of new features coming with this but still testing to see whether or not it pays to upgrade right away. As a rule you are us ...
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Using MyBlogLog and others for traffic
MyBlogLog is a social site for bloggers. Started originally as a straight social site they have continued to add more items to it. You can join it free. Now how do you get traffic from MyBlogLog allows you to add a widget to your blog that will let you see who is visiting your blog that belongs to M ...
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Using social bookmarking for blog traffic
This is the continuation of the series on blog traffic. I was using the 5 comment rule here and stopped it because of a lack of comments but comments have picked up considerably so I have decided to continue the series. First a bit about what social bookmarking is. There are hundreds of sites out th ...
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An easy review site solution
One way to easily use a blog for generating cash is to review products. That works to a point but The real key is to get people rating your reviews and making it easy for them to do so. Think about it. If I write and tell you how much I love or dont love XYZ you get one opinion and you decide to eit ...
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Three simple tweaks to your WordPress blog for better SEO
Copyright 2008 Mike Paetzold There are three easy things you can do to improve the optimization of your WordPress blog. You will want to do this because it will improve the speed your blog gets indexed and help you to rank higher for your keywords. The first is adding the proper plug-ins, the second ...
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Finally getting smarter - about time huh
Yes occasionally I have to keep hitting my head against the wall before things start to sink in. Each time WordPress releases a new version I play catch up checking my plugins and themes to see what works with it and what does not. Well I actually decided that is plain dumb and decided that this Ol ...
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Blog Rush Is Shutting Down
That was the title of an email I received this am. After a huge initial launch and then numerous growing problems with people trying to scam the system I expected it to keep evolving and have used it on this blog to continue to test it. Now I have been a vocal critic at times of this service for mar ...
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Blog Talk Radio was an interesting experience
Today I tried this for the first time. There is always a learning curve and as usual I screwed up the beginning. They tell you to mute or it will be added to the replay then I got excited when the music started and did not unmute for a minute. So there is dead space in the beginning but after that I ...
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