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Blogging

Is Your Schlock Writing Dismembering Infants?

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Schlock writing is bad. Schlock writing is bad because it is uninteresting. By uninteresting, I mean that writing in a schlocky manner is generic. Schlock writing is styleless and schlock is flat.

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Does your Blog Suck … Here’s How to Fix It

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He’re’s a little secret, I’ve slowly and steadily been unsubscribing from SEO blogs for the past few months, and last week the total number of  marketing blogs I read dropped below 10, and I think the time has come for an intervention. For a lot of you the time has come to ask yourselves does [...]

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Using Tags for Better Ad Targeting on Your Blog

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When you’re running a blog with affiliate links, one of the key factors that can increase your conversions, help you make more sales, and ultimately put more money in your pocket, is to have ads that are targeted to match the content. In this tutorial I’ll be showing you some tactics on how you can [...]

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Why I Turned Off Blog Comments

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There’s been a bit of speculation as to why I turned off comments here, and the occasional are comments coming back or is this just a temporary thing. My apologies for not addressing this sooner, but I’ll give you the real reason and address some of the speculation as well.

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The Big Fat RSS Lie

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Anytime a social media consultant starts talking to prospective clients and they bring up blogging, they talk about how RSS can be used to help them directly connect with their customers … the truth is in most cases it’s a BIG FAT LIE!

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Does Your Publishing Schedule Match Your Readers Habits

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In old days newspapers and magazine figured out there where optimal times for publishing certain types of stories, example Tuesday was traditionally “Science Times Tuesday”. As old world publishers transitioned to online publishers those rules probably don’t apply anymore and just might be working against them.

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How to Add a Visual Slider to Thesis

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The following is a tutorial on how to add a dynamic content slider to your Thesis wordpress theme. It’s easily adapted to work with any wordpress blog, but like everything it’s just easier with Thesis

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Thesis is a Wordpress Framework Not a Design and Why That Matters for SEO

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When I mention Thesis a lot of people don’t really get the value of it, to them Thesis is just a design. However they don’t understand Thesis and miss the real value of  Thesis as a framework.
First off we need to understand what a good HTML markup and framework can do. With a good framework [...]

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Category SEO For Wordpress Blogs and Ecommerce

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I solved (at least partly) my problem maintaining rankings over time. Old pages that used to get traffic are once again seeing inbound search visits. I did it by tweaking my blog’s category pages, but I think the lessons are also helpful for ecommerce sites.

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Analogies in Blog Titles are Like Dirty Underwear

As I cruise thru my SEO folder in my feedreader every day I’m filled with a sense of dismay and utter dissapointment with most of what I see. More often than not I see titles like:
How My Step Dad Taught Me The Ethics of Burnt Sienna Hat SEO
93 Ways Your Shopping Cart Software is Like [...]

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Wordpress – Clean Up Your Backend

There are lots of posts dedicated to showing you wordpress plugins that enhance your post functionality and add features but not many that focus on helping you clean and maintain a secure and orderly backend. I’ll include a few you may have seen before but also a few new ones to help keep things running [...]

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Patrick Gavin’s Blogging

Since I’m much too busy to get a proper post out before SMX can head over to Patrick Gavin’s new blog, there you can read about the history of Text Link Ads.

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Do You Subscribe to Your Own Blog

Seems a silly question to ask but I can’t believe that the people who run Trendspotting are subscribed to their blog and haven’t yet noticed that their blog is published without a title or haven’t done anything about it

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Five Reasons I Blog

Don’t blame me, blame Lee

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Blogging Code of Conduct … Stupid Idea

Boy it’s a good thing that someone came up with the blogging code of conduct idea, because that will almost certainly put and end to people who people who do stupid things and act like jerks … I mean really does anybody think troublemakers and rule breakers give a rats ass about rules, regulations or [...]

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Mercenary Audio Meet Reputation Management

When I see companies who still haven’t caught on to the fact that word of mouth and viral marketing works not only to make your company, product or service look good but also look bad, I shake my head there are so many ways to solve a problem and this isn’t one of them …
Mercenary [...]

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Will Somebody Please Fix the Broken Redundant Feeds

This isn’t a problem that’s native only to Google Reader, but gosh darn it Google how about fixing something that really is broken …

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Blogging and Preferences

When I worked for the man one of the things I learned was that everyone had a preferred method of communication. It could have been email, phone, fax, or even face to face. If you wanted to make the sale, close the deal, or solve the problem you not only had to figure out what [...]

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What Time of Day do You Post to Your Blog?

So I’ve got an idea in my head, that’s entering the “hey I might actually do this one” and of my biggest questions is when do I schedule my posts to go live?

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Email Comments Subscriptions Enabled

I enabled the comment subscrption plugin against my better judgement. Y’all complained and I gave in but I ain’t happy about it. But if it gives me one bit of trouble, I’m turning this car around right now and we’re going straight home …

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