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Tracking Your Blog’s Visitors With Hosted Software
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As a new blogger, you may be wondering to yourself about just how much traffic you blog gets and why. It’s important for any blogger who wants to be commercially successful to take a look at their web stats and measure their performance once in a while. If you’ve never even [...]
How Does A New Blog Effectively Drive Traffic?
Lots of bloggers have difficulty in driving traffic to their new blogs. The myth is that all you have to do is write the posts, and the traffic will just magically come. Sometimes a blogger gets lucky and gets turned into a celebrity in the blogging world and they have very little work to do [...]
How Productive Are You With Your Online Time Management?
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Most new bloggers fail to spend enough time in their organizational skills. It’s just not enough to have most of your best ideas on post-it notes all over your computer desk and no idea how you’re going to manage your blog. It’s also extremely important that you have a clear and [...]
How To Configure Your Blog’s Wordpress Settings
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As a new blogger you’ve probably gotten Wordpress all loaded up to your server by now and even though you might not be too familiar with the Wordpress Admin dashboard you can’t wait to get your blog on and write your first post. While you could by all means get straight to blogging [...]
What Permalink Structure Should You Use For Your Wordpress Posts?
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In the Wordpress Admin there is a Settings tab and within that tab is the Permalinks tab. Setting up this area of your blog administration is crucial to having your blog post urls (or links) be the way you want them. The default setting for your posts is p=”whatever the post id number [...]
Where To Find Wordpress Themes and Templates For Your Blog
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Congratulations on getting your Wordpress blog installed! Now you can start blogging…what’s that? You despise the default Kubrick theme that comes with all Wordpress installations? I for one find that very hard to believe, I mean look at that theme…it’s simple, it’s rounded at the corners….it’s a sea of blue…
Okay, okay so there’s [...]
How To Install Your Wordpress Blogging Platform Using Fantastico Scripts
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Hopefully now that you’ve made the decision to start your own self hosted blog you’ve registered a domain name, bought your blog’s hosting, and changed your name servers so that your domain name points to your hosting account. If all of the above went smoothly then your site should be visible when you [...]
