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Why You Need to Be Using WordPress!

Are you… Tired of paying lots of money to web design firms just to set up a simple website? Fed up with Content Management Systems that are too technical for you? Wanting to set up a system that easily handles interactions between you and your visitors? If you answered “yes” to any of the above [...]

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How To Get a Domain Name For Your Website

They say first impressions count and they’re right. If you’re like me, when you visit a new site one of the fist things you look at is its domain name. Once you’ve decided to take blogging seriously one of the first things you need to do is get your own domain name. Even if you’re [...]

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How To Embed Audio & mp3 in WordPress

Embedding audio files into your posts can be a great way to add additional content and value to your site.  If you’ve ever seen this done on another site and wondered how to do it then you’re in luck because it’s super simple and only takes a few minutes to set up. Click Here for [...]

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5 Reasons You’re Not Getting More Traffic

Seems like almost every day either online or IRL (in real life) I get asked by someone about how to get traffic to their site. It’s one of, if not the, most important things to work on when doing any kind of online marketing. If you’re selling something, even if it’s just yourself, you’ve got [...]

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Page Rank

The Importance of PageRank for Your Blog

I’m sure that most avid bloggers are aware of the term “PageRank”, but what does it mean? Why is it important in the blogging realm? PageRank is a term specific to Google and what it is, is essentially a number indicating the “weight” of a webpage based on how many links there are across the [...]

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Want to Test the Waters Before You Start a Self-Hosted Blog?

There is a decision to be made when you’re ready to become a blogger. The choice that you will need to make, regardless of what you plan to blog about, is what blogging platform you are going to use.   If you’re just starting out, you may want to practice with Blogger or WordPress.com’s free hosting [...]

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4 Business Principles that Apply to Blogging

Blogging, as a way to make a living, has become very popular in a short amount of time. In the past, people would set something up on their own, a blog to voice their opinions, but this has been inexorably altered by the internet revolution. It did not take long for businesses to realize the [...]

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Traffic Tuesday – Link-Building for Smarties

I hope that title makes you feel pretty good.  I read the Dummies books, but I never feel good about it.  So here we are, learning about building links.  Link-building is an important part of optimizing your content for search engine rankings. By now, you probably know that one of the main issues with building [...]

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New WordPress 3.3 Features

Late yesterday,  WordPress released their latest version. Version 3.3 called “Sonny” (because it’s named after Jazz musician Sonny Stitt)  brings with it some cool new features.  It has also brings some nice improvements on a few already existing features. Here’s a quick video from WordPress.org to give you the basics of whats new. You can [...]

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Traffic Tuesday – 5 Plugins To Get More Traffic

There are many plugins you can use for your blog that add functionality to help you in these two areas but in this post I wanted to focus on 5 of my favorite traffic getting plugins that I’ve gotten the best results from. When talking about getting traffic to your blog you can break it [...]

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