Jan 12, 2010
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Antti Kokkonen
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When I started blogging I didn’t have a clue on what is a good blog and how to make my blog better. I fumbled for 4 years with my gaming blog, never seeing much success. At the end of May 2009, I started this blog. I moved the old blog to this domain and started blogging for real.
At the beginning, I didn’t really know what I was doing, I was reading a lot blogs, tons of how-to’s and tried to learn as much as I could. I did learn a lot, but I was having hard time deciding what I actually should do with the limited time I had. There were so many good tips that I got paralyzed. I faced an information overflow.
After working a while with the new blog, I saw that Darren Rowse of Problogger.net released an eBook called 31 Days to Build a Better Blog (31DBBB). I bought it the day it was released and started doing what the book told me. The clear structure of the book not only showed how to do things, but why and when too.
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Dec 16, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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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 08, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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HTML for bloggers is an interesting topic, as you can effectively blog, even if you don’t know anything about HTML. With modern blogging platforms, like WordPress, we can blog without knowing anything about HTML, let alone coding with HTML.
Normal web user doesn’t have to know anything about HTML, but for a blogger, knowing certain key aspects has a lot of benefits. Don’t worry, this isn’t hard. You don’t need to learn how to code HTML. I will show you what are the most important HTML-tags and why it is important that you understand the basics.
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Nov 20, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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There are hundreds of social media sites out there. There is no way you can be active member and contributor in all of them, so you will have to choose the ones you focus on. However, there are ways to automate certain tasks, making things easier for yourself AND help all your social media followers at the same time.
For example, it is very likely that you want to share the new blog post you just published, your new YouTube video, etc. In addition to my own content, I also want to share the best blog posts, articles and videos I’ve read or watched.
As I want to send these to Twitter anyway, I should make that process as easy for myself as possible, right? I’m thinking automation! And in the end, it’s quite easy too! So if you want to send the “standard” updates automatically too, this the post is for you!
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Oct 23, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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As I wrote in the previous post, blog commenting is very effective tactic to build your personal brand, get some back links and drive traffic back to your blog while at it.
Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2009 study showed, bloggers use approximately 3 hours a week commenting on blogs, which is quite substantial. As you are blog commenting “anyway”, it is worth it to make the most out of those 3 hours, right? Or if you like, use the strategies to spend less time on commenting and achieve the same or better results.
With this article, you’ll be able to take your blog commenting to the next level and make the most out of your blog comments. I’ll show you a blog commenting strategy, techniques you can use and a couple of services you can utilize to leverage your blog comments even further.
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Advanced Blog Commenting Tricks
As I wrote in the previous post, blog commenting is very effective tactic to build your personal brand, get some back links and drive traffic back to your blog while at it.
Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2009 study showed, bloggers use approximately 3 hours a week commenting on blogs, which is quite substantial. As you are blog commenting “anyway”, it is worth it to make the most out of those 3 hours, right? Or if you like, use the strategies to spend less time on commenting and achieve the same or better results.
With this article, you’ll be able to take your blog commenting to the next level and make the most out of your blog comments. I’ll show you a blog commenting strategy, techniques you can use and a couple of services you can utilize to leverage your blog comments even further.
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Topic: Blogging Tips