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12 (of the) Best WordPress Guides and Plugin Reviews of 2011

Webbiquity SMM

WordPress is not only the most popular blogging platform , but is increasingly becoming a leading website content management system (CMS) as well. How did WordPress emerge as the leading blog platform? WordPress SEO – 10 Essential Actions by WP Blog Talk. Which plugins are the most popular / useful / vital?

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12 Ways To Make Your WordPress Blog Cleaner And Cuter

Waxing UnLyrical

What this does is let you select a certain number of blogs from your blogroll, and only that number of blogs will be displayed. I love how, when you click on an image, it starts the slideshow right on your blog! All you have to do is go to your Categories widget, and select the option to “show as dropdown.&#

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10 SEO Tactics That No Longer Work (If They Ever Did) | Small.

Small Business Mavericks

Red widgets, yellow widgets, pink widgets with blue polka dots, etc. Having a separate page for each widget is not going to help you rank for widgets. Publishing Only Other People’s Stuff – I see blogs with auto-generated content and think, “Do you really think that’s going to work?&#

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Blogging for Grasshoppers: The Most Numerous Steps To Do The.

Waxing UnLyrical

Establishing your voice A blog post with pointers isn’t only meant to teach, it is also meant to connect with readers. Umair Haque , blogging for the Harvard Business Review , places the Gap logo debacle into this context of creativity. When it comes to blogging, anyone can compile data and churn out a post.

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Writing Around the Web – Social Media SEO, Google Analytics, and Social Proof

Kikolani

Writing Around the Web is a monthly series highlighting guest posts I’ve written on blogging, business, SEO, social media, and other topics! This month’s featured piece just went live today and is part of the 2011 Bad-Ass SEO Blogging Contest. What’s at stake in this blogging contest?

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Embed Facebook Content Into Your Website | Small Business Mavericks

Small Business Mavericks

Widgets and tools that allow for embedded content have been around for years. link] 4 days ago · Like · Comment This is a unique and interesting tool and I think you’ll have fun using it if you can figure out a way to use Facebook content in your blog posts.

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12 Tips to Organize and Run a Tweetathon

Waxing UnLyrical

So I figured I’d start with a post on one of our most successful tactics that helped achieve the 2011 goal for the campaign: tweetathons. The very first tweetathon we held was on June 13, 2011. Props to Champion Tony Rivera and his team for creating this über-cool widget counter for the campaign… free! Background.