A quick round-up this Saturday, of how you can benefit from being a reader of Blog-Op, in order to promote your own blog. Guest Blogging I will be away on vacation from the 7th July to the 22nd, and would love some guest posts to put up in this time. Blog-Op is Page Rank 4, [...]

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As you know, I’m currently running a backlink contest, and obviously there’s no point running a contest if nobody enters, so I’ve been doing a little promotion in the last week. Obviously I can write about it, mention it in comments and forums, but if only there was a blog exclusively about contests to promote [...]

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I’ve helped a few people to get started with WordPress, and often the biggest difficulty for them comes with using an FTP client to install new plugins and themes, and knowing where to put them etc. This new plugin from Anirudh Sanjeev should solve this problem: OneClick. Now admittedly you do have to install this [...]

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So you’ve had enough, you’re fed up with blogging, and you’re just going to give it up, maybe even delete it. Fair enough, but here’s some things to consider first. Changing Your Mind With a few exceptions, if you delete a hosted blog like one from Blogger, it’s gone for ever. All those posts, comments [...]

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Being one of the few people who (occasionally) reads the notifications in my WordPress dashboard, I thought I’d check out the latest plugin releases and I’m glad I did, as I discovered a very useful plugin that helps you ensure that all of your others are current. WP Plugins Tracker does just that, and is [...]

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No.3 in in my Thinking Blogger series (see I hadn’t forgot) is the eponymous writer of Arseblog.com. Before anyone starts to wonder, it isn’t some strange fetish site (although…) but one fan’s blog about Arsenal Football Club. Now you may have no interest in English Football whatsoever, but the achievements of Arseblog deserve respect as [...]

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Do you use Text Link Ads? If so, do you use them to promote yourself for free? TLA currently offer three ways of making money, by selling text link ads on your site, within your posts and within your feed itself. An example of a basic text ad is the offer of a ‘Free WordPress [...]

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This week, I have mostly been reading: Madhur Kapoor brings us the news that Apple’s previously Mac only browser, Safari, has been released for Windows, and so far he seems to like it. It’s apparently the fastest browser out there, and may be worth a try. I’ve no doubts personally that Firefox is better than [...]

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It’s been about a month since I posted about Robots.txt and how it can help you escape supplemental hell, so I thought it was time for a quick update. At the time of writing, I had around 250 pages in Google’s main index (around the number of posts and pages at that time), with 550 [...]

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I hope you’re having a better summer than we are in the UK, as rain, rain and more rain seems to be the order of the day, and contrary to popular belief, it isn’t always like that here Anyway, summer may bring rain, but it also brings holidays, and I’ll be away for a couple [...]

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