Minimal Blog Designs – The Sexy Power Of The Little Black Dress

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Almost every fashion conscious woman alive, owns at least one sexy little black dress. That's because they understand the power of minimal design. The sexy secret of the little black dress is that it shows off your best features without detracting from them in any way. This is the essence of minimal blog themes and ...

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As a Blogger, How Do You Measure Success?

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Today we have a great guest post by Jeffery Baril from Source Blogger. He and I have had quite an adventure of late... So read on and enjoy! Regardless of what you have been told, blogging is a business. Business owners learn early on that to make their business successful; will require them to be surrounded by ...

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Do You Dagaloo? Free Blog Promotion At It’s Best

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I'll admit that the Dagaloo bird isn't exactly friendly looking, but trust me, this is one bird you want on your side. He can help you create a successful blog by helping you get your blog content out there for all the world to see. With him on your side, the world can't help but ...

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13 Free Ways To Manage And Rotate Ads In WordPress

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Even if you have an ad optimized theme for WordPress, your ads may become stale to your readers and lose their effectiveness. So how can you combat this immunity that readers have to your WordPress ad blocks? The easiest solution is to rotate or randomize your ads. That way the readers' eye is drawn to ...

Posted in Host Ads On Your Blog, Layout & Design, Monetize, Other, Production, Resources, Widgets & Plugins, Wordpress | Tagged , , , , , | 21 Comments

Get The New Twitter Button For WordPress And More

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Everybody is all a-twitter about the new Twitter button that was released a few days ago. The new Twitter button allows you to tweet without leaving the page and shows a count for the number of tweets for that page. Now maybe this doesn't excite you because you use a Twitter button from a ...

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KeywordLuv And CommentLuv Tutorial Makes Them More User Friendly

Less experienced users may not fully understand that they must leave their website URL in your comment form for KeywordLuv and/or CommentLuv to work.  Even experienced users might just forget to add their URL accidentally. And since leaving a website URL is not mandatory on comment forms maybe we could do something to help them ...

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Keep Future Blog Post Ideas Organized In WordPress

It's not always easy to keep track of your blog post article ideas. In fact I've personally tried a whole lot of ways that were just too awkward and clumsy to be truly effective. But now keeping my future blog post ideas and related links close at hand is a snap. I'm using a WordPress ...

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KeywordLuv Gives High Quality Backlinks On Comments

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In my previous 3 articles, we determined the difference between nofollow and dofollow blogs, how to make a blog dofollow while keeping spam to a minimum and how to use CommentLuv to encourage blog commenting. Today we turn our attention to understanding and using the KeywordLuv plugin. What is KeywordLuv and what does it do? KeywordLuv is ...

Posted in Commenting, Promotion, Resources, Widgets & Plugins, Wordpress | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 38 Comments

CommentLuv | What It Is, What It Does And Where To Get It.

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In my previous two posts we looked at the difference between dofollow and nofollow, then we taked about how to make your blog dofollow and battle comment spam. Today we're going to look at CommentLuv and how to use it. Tomorrow I will finally finish up exploring how to use the KeywordLuv plugin. Finally all ...

Posted in Blogger, Commenting, Community Building, Linking, Promotion, Resources, Widgets & Plugins, Wordpress | Tagged , , , | 34 Comments

How To Be A Dofollow Blog And Battle Comment Spam

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After reading yesterday's article on the difference between nofollow and dofollow links, you probably have a whole new set of questions. So today we are going to look at how to determine if your blog is dofollow, how to make a nofollow blog into a dofollow blog and how to prevent the comment spam that ...

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