Dec 23, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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Topic: WordPress
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There are over 18 million WordPress publishers as of November 2009: 9.2 million blogs hosted on WordPress.com plus 9.7 million active installations of the WordPress.org software. These nearly 10 million self-hosted WordPress.org powered blogs can utilize all the free WordPress themes and plugins available through the WordPress.org and numerous independent web sites.
These free WP themes can be downloaded and taken into use on any WordPress blog in matter of seconds (Go to Appearance >> Add New Themes in your WordPress Dashboard). There are over 1000 free themes available at WordPress.org alone and this post shows you the most popular of them.
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Dec 20, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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Topic: Blogging
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Blogging is simple. You start a blog. You write a blog post. You publish the post and spread the word, promote your post. People come and read your blog post.
Some visitors might subscribe to your blog via RSS, and maybe leave a blog comment that they enjoyed the post. You write your next blog post, and the cycle begins again. But what then?
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Dec 19, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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Topic: Blogging
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The native English-speakers have it easy online. English is the “universal” language on the Internet and those speaking other languages have to adapt.
Many English natives take so many things for granted, that I wanted to share some of the challenges we “foreigners” phase online, running our blogs and building our presence in the social media.
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Dec 17, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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Topic: Web Design
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Want to know what percentage of your users see that “buy now” or subscribe button? If you’re selling something, you should be interested in that. If you sell or buy advertising on a blog, you’d want the advertising to be seen by majority of the visitors too.
Whatever the most important element on your page is, you want to make sure it is above the fold, which means what the user sees when they first enter the page. So no scrolling or anything.
Because many users leave if they don’t see anything interesting, check that your call to action or something eye-catching is in that first view. And with that, Google’s new browser size tool will help you.
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Dec 17, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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Topic: Blogging
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Guest posting is a great way to get exposure outside your own blog, but what’s better than getting a guest post published? Well, it might be a lot of things, but one thing that came to my mind is getting a guest post published on a blog article competition, with a chance to get even more exposure and possibly win some cool prizes too. This post was originally part of the entry process for the contest, and now I updated it with the results.
I entered this contest with an SEO article and in the end my post was awarded the “silver medal” in the contest, the 2nd place, which was a great honor, as the competition was touch. As the winners were decided based on reader feedback in form of re-tweets, blog comments and votes at BlogEngage.com, I own the thank to all of you who supported me and my post on the contest!
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Dec 16, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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Topic: Blogging
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Continuing the quest for the best permalink structure, this post dives into the world of WordPress (WP) and explains how WordPress handles permalinks. We’ll go through how WordPress directs user to a post, the WP performance of different permalinks and finally, how to change WordPress permalinks.
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Dec 14, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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Topic: Blogging
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Choosing the best permalink structure for your blog is important step when setting up a new blog. This in-depth article analyzes different permalink types and presents the best permalink structures for you to choose from.
Good permalink combines the elements from being effective for search engine optimization and being shareable and readable by humans at the same time. I struggled to find a reliable and consistent information about what kind of permalink structure to use when I first started blogging, so I took the time and did the research on the subject.
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