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Use Google Alerts to keep track

I use Google Alerts to keep track of who is linking to my blogs and sites. Since you can create an alert for any search term I also use Google Alerts to watch some key words for me. It is an easy way...

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Link Medley blogging

North x East has a post about the Fifty Most Influential ‘Female’ Bloggers. ProBlogger has a guest post by Steven Snell about A Blogger’s Guide to Branding with Social Media. The post by Steven Snell...

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Link Medley Blogging

ProBlogger has an interesting guest post from Sara Ost about The Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge Method, Or, Blogging Is Flirting. WriteToDone has Darren Rowse in Conversation: Top Tips for Writers. The...

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Authentic blogging

I subscribe to ProBlogger and got Authentic Blogging in the mail. That post leads to The Authentic Blogging Manifesto which is a great post that I can relate to. Maria Gajewski tells about how she got...

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Link Medley Blogging

Problogger writes about 21 Ways to Make Your Blog or Website Sticky, How to Choose a Topic for Your Next Blog Post and asks Does Your Next Blog Post Matter?. Shilpan Patel of Success Soul has a guest...

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WordPress and magazine-style themes

Through The Blog Herald I was pointed to Smashing Magazine and When To Use Magazine-Style Themes For Blogs? It is a great and long post that deals with • Key Differences • Why Are More Blogs Moving to...

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Link Medley Blogging

Problogger writes about 10 Ways to Make Money BECAUSE of Your Blog. What if I told you that there’s a way to make money as a result of your blog where you don’t need to have a single ad on your blog,...

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What I learned from Men with Pens

James and Harry from Men with Pens do site reviews in a great way written as stories, my blog was reviewed in Drive-by-Shooting Sunday: Forty Plus Two. I responded in a similar style in This place is a...

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Link Medley Blogging

The Blog Herald has a post about Blogger First Aid Kit. Traffikd posts about Social Media Marketing and the Need for Focus. Daily Blog Tips has a great post about 10 Ways to Brand Your Blog or Website...

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Link Medley Blogging

Winning the web writes about 4 Steps to Find the Perfect Topic For Your Blog. Charlie asks Do You Have an Idea Garden? Traffikd writes about 16 Critical Tips for Building a Blog Part-Time. Write to...

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Using images from Flickr in your blog

I like using images in my blog, it spices up posts and makes the blog look more attractive. It was not easy to find images that I knew for certain I was allowed to use. But then I came across Skellies...

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How and where to find a topic

We all sometimes run out of topics to write about. Here are some links to posts that can help us get the creative juice flowing again and also about how to use the creativity wisely. Skellie writes...

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Link Medley

Problogger has a post about The 1-Step Way to Becoming A Comment Leader. Another post at Problogger is about How to Herd Organic Search Traffic to Your Blog, it is a long but great article about SEO...

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How to write well part 2

Based on a comment to How to write well I answered: My own top writing tip would be to write about what you are passionate about and to let the passion show. When someone combines passion and knowledge...

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Skellie and The Simple Web, a free eBook

Skellie, of Skelliewag and Anywired, has created a great free eBook, a 27-page eBook version of a series of posts that appeared on Skelliewag in 2007. It is open source and as Skellie writes “do...

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WordPress and spam problems

One of my other blogs got targeted with spam comments, all aimed for one specific post. I did turn of comments for that post but that did not help, I have gotten 5,200 spams in a short period of time....

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WordPress and SEO

I came across a great article about WordPress and SEO, search engine optimization. The article is WordPress SEO – Definitive Guide To High Rankings For Your Blog and includes eight sections about...

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SEO from a layman perspective

I must confess that I thought SEO, search engine optimization, was something consultants sold to the big guys and not for small blogs like mine. More for the sake of it I did install the All in One SEO...

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