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5 Ways To Spice Up Your WordPress Blog

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If you’re just getting started blogging (or maybe even if you’ve been doing it a while), here are some WordPress plugins I really really like. I really like its functionality, plus it’s a great way for folks to search on your blog as well as on the Interwebz without actually leaving your blog. LinkWithin.

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Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial?

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Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial? A few weeks ago, they asked a question about paying for blog posts. Alas, the issue is even stickier for bloggers than it is for companies.

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Ten Reasons PR Pros Should Blog

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Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Ten Reasons PR Pros Should Blog November 10th, 2010 Tweet Last week, Joe Hackman hosted Danny Brown , Gini Dietrich and me on his BlogTalkRadio show, aptly entitled PRapalooza. Blogging is a strange beast.

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Customize Your Blog's Error Page in 5 Easy Steps

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A while back, I was looking at my Google Analytics for WUL and I noticed that my 404 page , i.e. the one you get when the server can’t find the page you’re looking for on a particular site, was the 4th most highly-trafficked page on my blog. And they wouldn’t bother to poke around on the blog to find it.

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Judging A Blog Post By Its Cover

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As you continue to hone your craft (as I try to do), here are some of the exercises I put my writing (and those of my guest bloggers) through on a daily basis, to see if it looks as attractively as it (I think) reads. They might be helpful to you as you continue on your path as a blogging Grasshopper. Preview before you publish.

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12 Ways To Make Your WordPress Blog Cleaner And Cuter

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A Better Blogroll If you like highlighting other bloggers on your site via a blogroll, you will probably find that as you add more and more to them, it becomes a huuge list. What this does is let you select a certain number of blogs from your blogroll, and only that number of blogs will be displayed. And I hate a messy sidebar.

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

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STEP, TIP] {to, that will, on} [TASK, GOAL] In other words, articles such as 20 Tips on How to Gain Traffic on TheWWWObserver or 101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger on Lifehack. Establishing your voice A blog post with pointers isn’t only meant to teach, it is also meant to connect with readers.

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