5 Analytics Alternatives for your Blog

Posted on 21. Jan, 2011 by Ann Smarty .

Whether you write a corporate blog, an entertainment blog, or a mommy blog, you want to know who is reading and what they think of your blog so that you can give your readers the information they want. Sure, you can rely on comments, but that will only capture a fraction of your readers, and only the ones motivated enough to comment on your ideas. What about all of the others? How can you capture their feedback and motivations for visiting your site?

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Building Backlinks and PR Juice through Blog Comments

Posted on 03. Dec, 2010 by Jake Rocheleau .

If you were told that the biggest influence in the success of any political campaign is typography, would you be surprised? You bet you would, as well as most every other voting citizen in the country.

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Proper SEO Structure in Blog Articles

Posted on 22. Nov, 2010 by Jake Rocheleau .

Wordpress is the most popular CMS in the open source market today. We hear talk about it all the time in news blogs and social media feeds. It’s powering many popular digital magazines such as Joystiq and Engadget.

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Amazing Star Bursts – Painting with Light

Posted on 19. Nov, 2010 by SmashingShare .

Painting with Light. The process involves a tripod and long shutter speeds in ultra low light situations. A black studio. A night time scene. All fixed points of light create amazing star-bursts in the final image. Today, SmashingShare looks at the talented Toronto based photographer Steve Carty. Steve Carty has been making pictures for a living since 1992. He was born in the great white north and lives in Toronto with his wife, 2 kids and 2 dogs. Daily he commutes by bike to his studio.

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Designing a Dynamic Delicious Bookmark Widget for your Blog

Posted on 17. Nov, 2010 by Jake Rocheleau .

Anybody into the realm of social bookmarking knows about Delicious, formerly branded del.icio.us. It’s a powerful tool for bookmarking your favorite webpages and sharing them with your online network. The site has grown over time into one of the most commonly-used social bookmarking tools to-date.

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Using WordPress as a Static Website

Posted on 13. Oct, 2010 by SmashingShare .

For years, Wordpress has been associated with blogging. And, as a blogging platform, Wordpress is the leader in the field. However, thanks to the many plugins and themes that have been developed to work with this robust system, Wordpress can do a whole lot more than just help you create a simple blog.

Many people today are using it to create static websites, which may or may not even have a blog on it. And, luckily for even the most novice internet users, it is simple to use. In fact, it is fair to say that Wordpress has allowed everyone the ability to create a stunning website without needing to know any complicated code or HTML language.

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What Are The Pillars Of A Blog?

Posted on 10. May, 2010 by Anil Gupta .

This post will explain the crucial components that a blog should have. These pillars are what really make your blog a special one and make it so much more amusing and fun for your reader to read. A blog should have an effective combination of the crucial components that I am mentioning below.

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9 Blog Post Ideas For Business

Posted on 03. May, 2010 by Geoffrey Gordon .

Coming up with fresh content is not always easy if you are in charge of a blog. And the better the blog becomes, the higher the expectations are from its readers. If you are a regular blogger, it may be challenging to think of new topics and ideas to blog about. Even I battle from time to time. I have a few half finished posts that didn’t quite come out as nicely as I hoped. So I thought… why not share some of those ideas with you, my fellow bloggers to help kick start the creative juices!

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Top 5 Autoblogging WordPress Plugins

Posted on 21. Apr, 2010 by Praveen Sivaraman .

Definitely a blogger wants to post articles in his blog then and now as a reader needs daily consumption. But the ground reality is that it is quite hard to blog daily and post articles in the site. It is a common known fact that, it is hard to earn from a single blog. Obviously this situation pushes a blogger to run multiple blogs but maintain them is the biggest task in front. Hiring a worker is too costly but on the other hand there is plugin which can do this job for a blogger. It is nothing but auto blogging plugin which can do the job easily for a blogger. Though there are many plugins available online, following can give you an idea about the best and top 5 auto blogging wordpress plugins that can make a blogger’s life easy.

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12 Tips To Increase Subscribers To Your Blog

Posted on 14. Apr, 2010 by Anil Gupta .

Every blogger wants to see hundred thousands of numbers against their blog whether it’s about their daily blog traffic, Fans list on Facebook page, Twitter followers or subscribers to their blogs. In today’s post, I’m going to discuss some techniques blogger can use to increase the number of subscribers multiple times to their blogs.

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8 Design Elements Your Blog Should Have

Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by Mark Thompson .

There are certain design elements that all blogs should have to keep readers happy and engaged in your content. With the evolution of blogs and social media sites, the expectations for a blog are much higher. Readers expect to be able to read a post and have the ability to quickly comment and share by using the Twitter or Facebook accounts.
If you manage a blog, see if you are taking advantage of these 8 design elements.

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