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Do you want a blog that rewards your readers for commenting and engaging in the community?  Then why not transform your Blog from a NOFollow Blog to a DOFollow Blog. Don’t fully understand the differences and the benefits?  Well,  Heather Stevens of clevermarketer.com wrote a blog post Is Your Blog Commenting An Ineffective Waste Of [...]

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I was reading a blog post the other day that had a wealth of really, really, REALLY (did I say, “really”?! LOL) great information – many tips and tricks that I plan on implementing over time.  However, there was just too much there that it actually ‘wore me out’ just reading it – “Oh cool, [...]

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So, you’re ready to create a self-hosted wordpress blog but you don’t know where to start.  Yes, it can be very intimidating and at first you will feel like you’re all thumbs but the best thing to do is just get started.  Over time, things will eventually fall into place. The following steps will guide [...]

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When setting up your wordpress blog, you will keep most of the default settings ‘as-is’ but there is one that you definitely want to change and that’s your permalinks. When I first set up my blog, I wasn’t aware of this until a few weeks into it so thought I would put together a quick [...]

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You’ve created your blog, added some great content and now you want to start generating traffic to your blog.  So, how do you get traffic to your new blog?  Well, first you need to figure out what kind of traffic you want to generate.  Do you want to generate social traffic or do you want [...]

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WordPress.org is really the preferred blogging platform because you host your site and have complete control.  When you first install WordPress.org, it comes as a blank slate so you are responsible for adding all the different plug-ins that add the various features and functionality onto your blog.  While, researching and playing with the various plug-ins [...]

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