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Judging A Blog Post By Its Cover

Waxing UnLyrical

Because when you live in a world as fast-paced as ours, you just have a few seconds while your potential reader is skimming through her email, or RSS reader, or website, and decides whether or not to click through and read the fully story… or move on. They might be helpful to you as you continue on your path as a blogging Grasshopper.

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Tourism: Festivals are Powerful Economical Tools | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

Our speaker also teaches at the University of Washington and encourages CEO’s to embrace blogging and social media. Dan’s company gets it: the most recent blog post is featured on the home page. How many of our tourism, PR, communications, and advertising execs blog or podcast or twitter? Virtually none.

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5 Ways To Spice Up Your WordPress Blog

Waxing UnLyrical

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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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! Don’t forget I started out this post with my initial list of five ways for you to spice up your blogging.

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Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial?

Waxing UnLyrical

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. In 2010, blogs and bloggers are truly influencers. Let me unpack this a bit.

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Customize Your Blog's Error Page in 5 Easy Steps

Waxing UnLyrical

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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Social Media in the Industry: Customization is the Key to Success

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If there’s one thing that seems to be lacking from many of the social media advice blogs, it’s specifics. If you have a blog-based website (through WordPress or Blogger), you may be able to automate some of the posting process by installing the Social RSS application. Tourism/Travel/Hospitality.

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