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Helpful Blogging Links: May 29, 2009

May 29, 2009

Expert blogger Melanie Nelson finds and presents the most helpful blogging tutorials, new, and information links. Find out about custom styling, WordPress TV, legal guidelines for bloggers, monetizing your blog, and building community.

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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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How Do You Know If Your Blog Is Successful?

April 22, 2009

When I discuss blogging with others we invariably end up talking about how to make a blog successful. It may not be the thrust of our conversation, but it does come up. We all want to know how to do what we do better. Today’s article discusses Google PageRank and demographics and which is more [...]

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What Are Blog Metrics?

April 20, 2009

Blog metrics are a way to measure the success (or at least the popularity) of a blog. In this article I will introduce you to several of the sites that are most popular for determining a blog’s success: Google PageRank, Technorati, Digg, and Alexa. Whether you put any stock into them is your call. (wink)
What [...]

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