I received an interesting email the other morning requesting an interview with me regarding Blog-Op – “Fame and fortune at last!” I thought. Well, not quite but it was interesting and fun to do. The request came from BlogInterviewer.com and linked me through to an online form where I got to answer some questions about [...]

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I was just asked this question in a comment by David Airey:
I’m trying to improve the search feature on my blog. I was using the ’search everything’ plugin, to incorporate text in comments, but in the end I’m thinking this might be a bad idea – because the search then pulls in more random posts.
And [...]

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Is your blog more than few months old?
Have you ever changed your permalink URL structure?
Have you ever deleted some posts, or moved some pages around?
If you answered yes to any of these, then your blog will almost certainly have some broken links – a potential visitor will click on a search engine result linking to [...]

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It’s always worth submitting your blog to a reputable directory if you’re looking to build incoming links and Page Rank, and a new one you may be interested in is the new Alive blog directory. Built upon the established PR6 Alive Directory, this specialist directory features 24 blog specific categories, allowing you to find [...]

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Feeling absolutely incapable of writing anything worthwhile, I’m sticking to reading right now: Here’s some of the best articles I’ve found in the last few days:

Simon at the eminently readable Pingable.org asks us to consider 10 writing errors that makes your blog less good. Leaving aside the debatable grammar of that title (sorry Simon…..) there’s [...]

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Absolutely none of this happened to me, ok?

Start blog, write first post, saying ‘Hello!’, and outline all the delights to come.
Play with widgets, format etc. change the header colour again. Check stats, no visitors yet.
Write a few more posts, on subjects close to your heart, that people are sure to love. Check stats-any visitors yet?
Tell [...]

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One of the best ways to get publicity for your blog is to get it reviewed. It can be considered a small risk, as you could obviously get a some negative feedback, but if the reviewer is worth anything at all, you’ll also get some constructive criticism which is essential to building a better blog: [...]

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In the 4th part of this look back through my previous posts, I’ve rummaged through my Quick Tips category to find a selection of easy tweaks for you to better your blog.
One of the things I attempt to do with Blog-Op is to simplify some of the more convoluted instructions you will find for the [...]

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I recently submitted a couple of posts to the Problogger 31 days to building a better blog series, and the new readers coming in today have been great to see – hello!
Even better are all the tips being submitted which give you a chance to learn new things, and find new blogs to read – [...]

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One of the many tasks a webmaster/blog owner should carry out is submitting their URL to as many blog directories as possible, and a new one for inclusion is MasterMOZ.com.
This blog directory offers all the standard features of listing, such as tags and categories etc. but one of the main differences is the review [...]

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