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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.

What [...]

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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 blog [...]

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Which directories should I use to promote/list my blog?

May 4, 2009

Unless you’ve decided to blog in a vacuum and don’t care if anyone reads what you have to say, at some point you’ve probably looked for ways to encourage new readers to find your blog.
When I started blogging in 2004, it wasn’t uncommon for a blog to be part of several blogrings. A blogring is [...]

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What is a permalink and why do I need it?

November 24, 2008

Before I start my explanation of permalinks, I want to show you two examples so you can refer to them as necessary:
An example of a blog’s main URL (which shows all the posts for a given period of time:
http://www.bloggingbasics101.com
An example of a permalink:
http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/101/2008/11/what-is-a-permalink/
A permalink is the link to an individual blog post. These are important [...]

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How can I link to a particular place in a post?

November 12, 2008

Linking to a particular place in a post or page requires you to do some simple HTML. The links you are making are called anchor links. They are particularly handy for long posts or posts with long lists. Using anchor links you can create a sort of table of contents or list of items that [...]

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