Quite simply, five of my favourite WordPress plugins for improving the navigation of my blog: Related Posts: Make the most of your archive, by showing a list of related posts within each new post, as you can see at the bottom of this one. It gives your visitor more to read, and increases the stickability [...]

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Those of you who have been with me a while will know that my webhost has been rather unreliable to say the least, and I am definitely on the lookout for a new one when my package expires. If you’re in the same situation as me, then you’re sure to be as interested in this [...]

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As you probably already know, links make the blogging world go round, and if you want to get noticed, read by more people, or just improve your various stats, then you need people linking to you. But why should people link to you? Well hopefully it’s because they like what you’ve written, and want more [...]

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While Part 2 of this series dealt with improving your visibility to a wider pool of readers, this post will look at the more impersonal side of blogging. If you are not interested in statistics and ranking, it will be of little interest, but if you rely on improved blog stats for making money, or [...]

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I’ve been reading a lot recently about how you should be auditing your About Page, and exactly what information you should put into it, and I’m not giving away any secrets when I say that my page is virtually unchanged since I started this blog, so it’s certainly due a refresh. I’m definitely in favour [...]

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Part 1 of this series looked at setting up your new blog, and getting started. This time I’m going to review the posts I’ve written on getting people to actually visit your site and read what you’ve written. There are hundreds of ways to achieve this, most free, a lot paid, some slightly unethical and [...]

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For the first post in my Exploring The Archives series, I’m going to raid my ‘Blog Improvement‘ category, and find some posts to help you get started with blogging. This post will assume that you want to begin blogging, but don’t yet have a blog, or that you have managed to sign yourself up for [...]

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Image: Cyberinsekt As most of you will no doubt know, you should write post titles to not only attract the attention of human eyes, but also that of search engines. Using the right keywords or combination of words will often result in a large amount of search traffic, as anyone who’s managed to shoehorn the [...]

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An ambitious title which will probably ensure that the rest of the post will be a let down, but this is what I typed into Google around the beginning of November last year, and has lead me to where I am now. By putting this title on the post, it should attract people searching for [...]

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Do you know what an RSS feed is? Do you know how to subscribe to one, and why you should bother? If not, read on….. Very simply, an RSS feed is a means of delivering website content from one site to another, most commonly used to display the contents of many sites in one location, [...]

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