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Linking

Choosing the Best Link Generator for Your Carnival

May 10, 2010

Blog carnivals can be a great way to promote community and increase traffic not only to your site, but to your participants’ sites. But how do you do that? With a linky tool. A linky tool allows carnival participants to submit a title for their link and a link to their site. The linky tool [...]

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Blog Traffic Magic: Is a Blog Carnival Right for Your Blog?

May 4, 2010

As bloggers we like to know that people are reading what we write and that we’re connecting on some level with our audience. The more people that come to our site, the happier we are. Maybe you’re happy simply because people are coming or maybe you’re happy because more traffic means more revenue (especially if [...]

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Blog Roll Etiquette and Advice

April 5, 2010

I recently received a great question about blog rolls. The question was whether or not you should contact the people you put on your blog roll to let them know that you’re linking to them. Then I started thinking about all the issues related to blog rolls, the etiquette behind them, the usefulness of them, [...]

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How Do I Use WiseStamp to Create an E-mail Signature?

March 3, 2010

E-mail signatures are an easy way to promote yourself and your projects in your everyday correspondence. They’re fairly un-intrusive (if you keep them short and simple), but they let your peers know what you’re working on and how they can contact you via social media. I use WiseStamp for my e-mail signatures and I’ve had [...]

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Blissdom Recap: SEO & Counting What Counts (Pt. 2)

February 25, 2010

Yesterday I shared some of the main tips from the Blissdom Wisdom Workshop SEO & Counting What Counts presented by Kelby Carr and Angela England. Today I want to give you the rest of the tips they shared, but it won’t be quite as detailed as yesterday’s recap. I love bulleted lists and this is [...]

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SEO: What Are NoFollow and DoFollow Links?

February 22, 2010

Linking, whether you’re linking to another site or your site is being linked to, is an important part of SEO (search engine optimization). How a site treats links is important because it can determine how search engines treat those links as well. Specifically, I’m talking about whether a site uses NoFollow tagging within its links. [...]

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How to Automatically Publish Your Latest Posts to Twitter

October 26, 2009

For the last six or eight months, a friend of mine has told me that she uses Twitter as her RSS feed. She follows everyone she’s interested in and follows the links they provide via Twitter (whether to personal or news blogs). She doesn’t use any other aggregator. Her experience made me stop and think: [...]

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Helpful Blogging Links: June 26, 2009

June 26, 2009

This week’s Helpful Blogging Links roundup includes information on how to find out who Stumbled your article, why designers need to learn coding basics, and a reminder on how to make sure a blogger can respond to your comments!

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Beginning Blogger Checklist: 5 Mistakes to Avoid When Starting a New Blog

June 8, 2009
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Blogging Basics 101 explains 5 of the most common mistakes beginning bloggers make. These mistakes are almost a right of passage, but why waste that time with mistakes you can easily avoid?

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Everyday Blogging Tips

May 6, 2009

Everywhere you turn you can find tips about how to build your blog, build your audience, build your social media presence, etc. What I want to talk about are the every day blog tips you can use to keep things humming along: Choose your link words carefully. Every time you include a link in your [...]

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