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5 Steps To A Professional Grade Blog On A Budget

Jason Yormark

Get yourself a shared hosting account. Having access to your own web hosting is very empowering as it gives you not only the ability to launch your own custom blog, but the power to launch practically as many other blogs/websites you would ever want. Steps for this vary depending on your choice of hosting and domain registrar.

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9 Must-Have WordPress Plugins

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All in One SEO Pack. If you’re looking to optimize your WordPress blog (because if you don’t tweak anything, they aren’t really that optimized for SEO to begin with) you should try using this. There’s a whole host of reasons why this plugin rocks. I LOVE DISQUS. Google XML Sitemaps. This pretty much speaks for itself.

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My 9 Favorite Wordpress Social Media Plugins | jasonyormark.com

Jason Yormark

If you are running a hosted WordPress blog you should definitely check these out. Disqus Comment System – The Disqus plugin transforms your WordPress comments into a true social media friendly experience. These are the plug ins in my blog: -Disqus Comment System -Smart YouTube -Twitter Tools -Fbshare.me

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Keep Your New Year’s Resolution: Set up a Social, Search-optimized WordPress Blog … Today

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Create a hosting account with sites like BlueHost.com , WPEngine , or HostGator. If you would like to do more research on hosting companies, check out WhoIsHostingThis. Upload WordPress to your hosting account , and customize with your relevant theme. Disqus or CommentLuv for comments. SEO plugins.

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9 Ways Twitter Can Actually Be Useful

Jason Yormark

If you’re hosting any type of event, Twitter can be a great tool to give real time updates to those either in attendance or those unable to attend. Leave a Reply blog comments powered by Disqus 105 SUBSCRIBERS 50161 FOLLOWERS Home About Me My Videos My Resume Contact Me Event Coverage.

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What I've Learned About Blogging Based On A Year's Worth Of Data

Jason Yormark

What I’ve Learned About Blogging Based On A Year’s Worth Of Data | jasonyormark.com « Blogging and SEO Says: August 25th, 2010 at 6:50 pm [.] I use WordPress and my hosting provide (siteground.com) offers hosting for $9.95 Great for SEO as well. marketing tools Nature Blog Network » Whither StumbleUpon?

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Social Media Marketing Without Brand Awareness Can Kill You.

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Such was the case for this Digg story , which compared multiple web hosting companies and watched as these hosts handled the traffic spikes that resulted from the Digg effect. Note how I bolded a specific term: web hosting. In web hosting, there are hundreds of different forums and sites. Even I could have looked further.