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Top 10 Blogging Mistakes

August 19th, 2011

Research by IronMonk, a New York based social marketing agency, reveals the results of a study focusing on business blogging mistakes. The study’s results, called Top 10 Business Blogging Mistakes, highlights the importance of authority, relevance, consistency, and quantity to attract prospective clients and retain and nurture existing clients.

The top 10 business blogging mistakes include poor quality content, lack of social marketing integration, inconsistent posting schedule, uninteresting or irrelevant headlines or titles, missing opportunities for search engine optimization, self-promoting blog posts as opposed to blog posts that establish your company’s authority. The results include details about each mistake and how to correct them. » Read more: Top 10 Blogging Mistakes

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WordPress Gained Prominence Among U.S. Government Agencies

August 8th, 2011

WordPress is fast gaining prominence and we find its popularity growing exponentially.WordPress is not just limited to the personal blogs anymore. The content management platform is so powerful that it has already begun serving multiple functionalities for many of the individuals, organizations, businesses and even the governments across the globe.

WordPress is now the backbone of many popular and official blogs. Umpteen celebrities, Techies ,and other professionals prefer working and communicating with the WordPress.

It is really interesting to note that the U.S. Government Agencies are also already using the WordPress platform with trust.

Here is a small list containing U.S. Government Agencies using the WordPress platform. This list was revealed at WordCamp San Francisco, 2008.

  • Air Force
  • Army
  • Central Intelligence Agency     (CIA)
  • Coast Guard
  • Defense Intelligence Agency
  • Department of Energy
  • Department of Homeland Security
  • Department of State
  • Department of Treasury
  • Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
  • Marine Corps
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation     (FBI)
  • National Geospatial  Intelligence Agency
  • National Reconnaissance Agency
  • National Security Agency (NSA)
  • Navy

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How to Get Your Blog Indexed

April 24th, 2010

If you have created your blog recently and wish more have visitors, you must get it indexed in the search engines.

If it is not indexed, it will not appear in the search result.

You may have shared your blog link with other sites and blogs but if you do not get it indexed on the search engine it will cause you to lose a large portion of traffic. The sitemap can help the search engine to crawl your site more easily.

You can create a sitemap for your blog by using online sitemap generator. There are umpteen of such free online sitemap generators that will generate up to 500 pages. » Read more: How to Get Your Blog Indexed

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Scheduled Backups Help Secure Your Blog

April 14th, 2010

You must have read or heard that “no website can ever be made 100% secure”. No matter how well the site is designed and made secure with all possible security measures in place, it takes only the time and determination for an expert hacker to create a hole in to it. 

So what you should do with your wordpress blog to ensure its prolonged safety and security from such mishappenings?

Backup is the best measure to minimize the losses. Backups will certainly serve you as the first line of defence. With pre-scheduled functional backups you can easily erase everything in your server and you would be back online in a matter of hours. » Read more: Scheduled Backups Help Secure Your Blog

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Understanding WordPress

April 6th, 2010

I was almost getting zeroed in on the topic and was just finding the right time slot to write down a detailed post about wordpress blogging. It may be a chance but a good one certainly that this lovely post flashed in today.  Chuck Tomasi and Kreg Steppe have written this detailed lesson with wonderful style of illustrations and examples that I simply could not resist myself but to share the same with you all.

This long post is in fact just a lesson of their co-authored book.

In this lesson, you learn the basics of WordPress, different ways you can run WordPress, and ways to create your account on WordPress.com. » Read more: Understanding WordPress

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WordPress 3.0 Beta 1 Released with Merger of WordPress Mu

April 3rd, 2010

WordPress has come up with an early Beta 1 version of WordPress 3.0

Jane Wells reveals that,” We wanted to get people testing it this weekend, so we’re releasing it now rather than waiting another week until everything is finalized and polished. There’s a ton of stuff going on in 3.0, so this time we’re giving you a list of things to check out, so that we can make sure people are testing all the things that need it”.

The big news is the merger of WordPress Mu and WordPress. This is certainly an intelligent and futuristic step.” If you’re interested in testing the Super Admin stuff associated with multiple sites, you’ll need some simple directions to get started”, says Jane Wells. » Read more: WordPress 3.0 Beta 1 Released with Merger of WordPress Mu

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It’s Time for Creating a Profile with Gravatar and Building Brand

March 29th, 2010

“Avatar” is nothing new to people who surf online quite often and if you are a bit more familiar with blogging then it is far less likely that you are not aware of “Gravatar”. Proficient bloggers however, better understand the value of globally recognizable avatars.

March 26, 2010 was a day of new happenings with continually evolving “Gravatar”. More useful features have been added and these include a ‘profile page’, a dedicated ‘photo gallery’, and facility to have ‘linkage with various other accounts’.

We are living in an age of branding and this has been taken well care of as well. You can now verify your ownership of all other online profiles and services of yours. Isn’t it a good way of brand building? » Read more: It’s Time for Creating a Profile with Gravatar and Building Brand

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How to Set Up A Free WordPress Blog

March 22nd, 2010

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Creating A WordPress Blog

March 21st, 2010

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