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15 Blog Headlines That Don’t Suck

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If you came here looking for 15 blog headlines that don’t suck… you were sucked in. By a blog headline that didn’t suck! “Find ways to get people to your blog !” The thing is, recently my blog (and news) consuming habits have been very “un” SSMG [Supposed Social Media Guru]-like.

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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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5 Tips To Avoid New Job Burnout

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Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali 5 Tips To Avoid New Job Burnout January 3rd, 2011 Tweet It’s a new year, and perhaps you’re starting a new job. If you’ve recently started a new job, what tips would you add?

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12 Ways To Make Your WordPress Blog Cleaner And Cuter

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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! The rest of the story So where are the other seven tips, you ask? Image: tamra hays via Flickr, CC 2.0

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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. Happy dance!

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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. In contrast, Shonali includes tips, but also explains why they are important – she leads. Teach your readers to take ownership of content.

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Seven Steps To A Better Facebook Business Page

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Bonus tip: This is also a very smart way to keep on top of activity on competitors’ pages. I think it’s fine to schedule certain types of updates; for example, if there are certain blog posts you want to promote (for yourself as well as those of people you respect), and so on. Those were the three tips I posted on BNET.

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