Don’t be a Tagboard Whore

April 25, 2024 by

Tagboards are very useful for a beginning blogger for two chief reasons: They provide the blogger’s readers a hassle-free venue to give feedback or compliments; and They allow the blogger to easily build relationships (e.g. link exchange) with other bloggers by commenting on their  tagboards. While there is nothing wrong with the latter – going […]

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Google OKs Underscores as Word Separators in URLs and More SEO Tips

April 25, 2024 by

Still wondering if you should use dashes or underscores in your permalinks? Worry no more; Google considers both as legitimate word separators. This was announced by Google geek Matt Cutts at WordCamp 2007 yesterday among several other pearls of SEO wisdom he dished out to the WordPress crowd. Originally posted on July 24, 2007 @ […]

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Changing Your WordPress Permalinks

April 25, 2024 by

When I’m opening a WordPress blog (I’ve done so a dozen or more times), one of the first things I do is to change the permalink structure. “Permalink” (a portmanteau of “permanent” and “link”) means the URL or web address of your blog posts, pages, categories, archives, and so on. When you install a WordPress […]

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Are Link Trains the Chain Letters of the Blogging Age?

April 25, 2024 by

You’ve probably seen several versions of a link train meme going around the blogosphere. Whether it’s supposedly optimized for certain web applications (e.g. Alexa version 1 & version 2, Technorati, MyBlogLog, Bloglines) or requires some other qualifier (viraltags, your name in your domain name, tech sites only, feed URLs, Z-listers only!), this method of sharing […]

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PRESENCE is the new black

April 25, 2024 by

To have the blogger’s mindset is to analyze and think about the best ways to present, initiate and encourage discussion on ideas that may first appear as irrelevant together and not worth thinking over. In the months I started pushing web content, I unconsciously developed a rather anal-retentive process as to which ideas make their […]

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Learn How To Link (and Trackback)

April 25, 2024 by

Whether you call it the Internet, the Net, the World Wide Web, the Web, CyberSpace, or even the Intarwebs, one thing is clear: this place is composed of several different websites connected through hyperlinks. Without links, we won’t be able to move from one website to another. Since blogging is a subset of the online […]

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