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Social media and social networking are as popular as ever. People are updating their Facebook statuses, sending out pictures through Twitter, and connecting with fellow professionals on LinkedIn. They’re also sharing their locations and favorite places with Foursquare, so how can you best integrate that network onto your blog? One way to do it is [...]

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You’ve surely encountered more than one blog out there that highlights a series of “related posts” at the end of each entry. This is a great feature to have on your blog, because it can direct interested visitors toward additional reading on your site that is relevant to what they just read. That much makes [...]

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Search engine optimization is a very important whether you are running a small blog or you are trying to promote your business website. If you have WordPress as your chosen content management system, you also have access to a wide range of plugins and customizations that can aid you in this effort. An oldie but [...]

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Social networking is as popular as ever, so how can you go about capitalizing on this interest for your business, your brand, or your online presence in general. Sure, you could try investing in some freelance web coders to create a social network for you, but it’s a lot easier to use a free plug-in [...]

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Did you just publish a new blog post only to realize that you made a typo or some other kind of error that needs to be fixed? Normally, you would need to head back into the backend of your WordPress installation, find the post in question, hit the edit button, make the necessary changes, and [...]

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Do you find that your blog is starting to attract a lot of spammers, but you still want to find a way to reward the legitimate commentators on your site? That can be quite the tough balance to achieve, but it is possible. If you choose to add the “dofollow” attribute to all commentator links, [...]

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Do you oftentimes use the same block of text in multiple places on your blog? Perhaps there is a usual snippet of HTML that you commonly append to some blog posts, but not others, so it is not suitable to edit the single post template in your WordPress theme? If you find yourself facing any [...]

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One of the most frustrating experiences for any web user is to click on a link only to discover that it points towards a webpage that no longer exists. This is not good for the user and it reflects poorly on the site providing the link.
This is not necessarily the “fault” of the original site [...]

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Do you have an Amazon Wish List? Do you want to share this wish list with your blog readers, but you don’t want to send just a simple generic text link, nor do you want to use the heavier “carousel” widget on your site? As it turns out, there is a free WordPress plugin that [...]

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This has become an increasingly common issue among bloggers, both casual and professional. Many of us syndicate our blog content, in some form or another, onto Facebook. This can be a great source of traffic and continued brand presence, since many people log into Facebook every day and they may or may not visit your [...]

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