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  Stop! Before You Make Any Of These 5 Website Usability Mistakes

  10.02.07 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  I was reading Lisa’s post on site usability mistakes that bug her, and it reminded me to finish my own second list of annoyances on the web pages that bug me a lot. My first list can be found here.

  I’ll start off by spotting two usability mistakes on Lisa’s blog (That’s how shameless I am!).

• Blogging Tips, Productivity

  Create a Blogging Plan by Breaking Down Objectives into Task List

  09.29.07 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  Do you know where you’re going with your blog? Do you have a plan or are you just making it up as you go? If you want your blog to be successful and make money, you must have a plan. If you don’t have any idea where you’re going, how will you get there? How will you know when you’ve arrived?

• Link Love

  Link Love Episode 3

  09.23.07 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  It’s that time of week again!

• Blogging Tips, General

  DMCA Guide For Bloggers: How To Give Sploggers A Run For Their Money

  09.22.07 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  If you’ve been online for any amount of time, odds are you’ve seen “DMCA” mentioned quite a few times. Maybe you’ve even done some research into it, but do you really know what the DMCA laws are and how they can help you? Here’s a quick’n'dirty DMCA guide for bloggers.

• Resources, WordPress Tips, Wordpress Plugins

  5 Odd And Unique Uses Of WordPress

  09.20.07 | Permalink | 18 Comments

  A customized WordPress installation can handle every kind of task it is given very comfortably. Thanks to its unmatched flexibility and an ever increasing repository of Plugins, we are able to set up WordPress to do things that it isn’t supposed to do.

  You may disagree with me and say that every use of WordPress other than as a blog is its misuse, but trust me, WordPress is more robust, intuitive, and flexible than many of the free services and CMS out there. We trust WordPress because we know it so well, and it has never let us down.

  The other day I was searching for a way to integrate Tumblr with WordPress, and came across some unique uses of WordPress. People have devised ingenious ways to turn WordPress into full-fledged CMS and whatnot. Here are some of the best ones.

• Link Building, Resources, Social Media

  Top 11 Digg-like Sites For Bloggers, Designers, And Web Developers

  09.19.07 | Permalink | 31 Comments

  Anyone who has tried to get to the Digg front page knows how hard it is to do that. You need a lot of friends, influence, and need to be a top member apart from writing quality content before you can dream of meeting success on Digg.

  On Digg-clones, on the other hand, it’s relatively easy to get the attention you deserve. Many niche specific Digg-style sites have emerged over the past few months where you can submit stories to be reviewed and voted by those who are interested in your content. Though, you may not get as much traffic from niche social media sites as you would from Digg, it’s worth having your content read by the like-minded people who are more likely to become your regular readers.

  Below is a list of 11 most popular Digg-like sites where bloggers, designers, and web developers can submit stories (their bog posts or whatever) to promote their content.

• SEO Tips, Writing Tips

  A Crash Course On Writing Search Engine Optimized Posts

  09.18.07 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Do you write Search Engine optimized posts? Can your posts be found by the Search Engine users searching for something you write about? You may not know the answer, and if so, you are probably not aware of the impact a good SEO strategy can have on your blog.

  You probably despise the idea of writing content for the Search Engines, it may seem dishonest to you because you may think of it as disloyalty to your readers, but do you know that good SEO practices have nothing to do with the search engines? Yes, you heard me right, good SEO practices to promote your blog are aimed at search engine users not the search engines themselves.

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