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 [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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If you’ve been blogging for more than 10 minutes, then this has probably happened to you, no matter which blog platform you use:You upload a new widget, edit your template or maybe upgrade to a new version, and suddenly everything is broken and your blog looks a mess or is totally unreadable. Now most things [...]

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Dan Saffer has some good advice for people who want to be taken seriously when commenting in blogs. He says that comments will not be taken seriously unless authors follow a few simple rules: Use reasonable English grammar. Even if you don’t speak English as your first language, you can at least obey some basic [...]

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I mentioned the Cash For Comments blog in my Sunday round-up, and having now received my blog review will happily recommend them. The premise is simple: Leave him 5 genuine comments on his blog site. Despite it only being a few weeks old, this isn’t hard to do as there’s some good stuff on there [...]

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