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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? What are some techniques, beyond the obvious, for search-optimizing WordPress content? How did WordPress win?

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A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter

Socialized

Twitter is excellent for distribution , but if you’re going to communicate original ideas, you’ll need a blog (or something similar). They are most often using Twitter as a super-news-feed, and as a way to drive people back to their blog, web site, etc. A blog is less dominated by spam than Twitter.

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Dear Blog Comment Spammer: I Think Your Comment Spam Tool is Broken

Bill Hartzer

Dear Blog Comment Spammer, who just left a comment on one of my recent blog posts: I think whatever software tool or script that you are using is broken. Whatever the reason, you should have noticed that none of the blog comments that are left on my blog actually allow outgoing links to websites. Can you tell? {. {I

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Hawaiian Relaxation & More

Kikolani

Reasons to love CommentLuv blogs. 13 lesser known blogs you should read in 2010. The secret of successful blogs – write, promote, repeat. How to get more comments on your blog. What does blogging mean to you ? 10 ways to keep visitors coming back to your blog. 14 traits of successful blogs.

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Blog Comment Spammer Leaves Comment. Forgets to Spin the Content.

Bill Hartzer

When you have a fairly popular blog, you have to deal with comment spammers. Unfortunately, blog comment spamming still works apparently, or at least the blog spammers haven’t learned that it doesn’t work. Nonetheless, I’m still amazed at some of the comments left on the blog.

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Blog Hosting, Domains and Blogging Platforms – What We Wish We Knew

ProBlogger

The post Blog Hosting, Domains and Blogging Platforms – What We Wish We Knew appeared first on ProBlogger. Image created in Canva This post is part of the ‘ What we wish I knew when I first started Blogging’ Series.

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Micro Persuasion: Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center

Buzz Marketing for Technology

How to blog from Gmail (Gmail + Wordpress/TypePad/Blogger + IMified). Further, I have become a fan of Twitter - a micro blogging tool which you can control using Google Talk and other IM clients. How to blog from Gmail. Last but not least, you can also blog directly from Gmail. Using Gmail as a Massive Database.