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I would like to write a short post about the company Fasthosts and its domain name renewal policy.
Fashosts are a UK based company which provides web hosting and domain registration services. It has a very large customer base and is probably the most popular supplier of web related services in the UK.
I first became involved [...]
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One topic I have been reading and hearing more and more about over the past few months is membership sites. A lot of people have been talking about how important membership sites are likely to be in the future. They will provide value to their members, and will also provide a continuous income stream for [...]
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A little while ago I bought a domain name which features the name of a famous web application that allows you to tell people what you are doing in 140 characters or less. My intention was to blog about applications, developments and other activities based around the service. As with some of my other well [...]
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Picture Credit : Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
This blog doesn’t get a great deal of traffic at this time, and giving away the exact numbers will cause me a great deal of embarrassment. But if I spent more time blogging rather than tinkering with the design, looking for appropriate affiliate ads and experimenting with WordPress [...]
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For quite some time I held the viewpoint that the length of time for which a domain name is registered does help a website or blog achieve higher search rankings, particulalry on Google. In my mind I have often tried to trace the origins of this thought and, after performing a few searches, I [...]
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Inspired by a blog post by WPDude about publishing to a blog using a remote device I decided to download and try out Windows Live Writer. WLW is one of the methods suggested in the article, along with email updates and a couple of browser plugins.
Windows Live Writer is a desktop application that connects with [...]
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Darren Rowse from ProBlogger is offering bloggers the opportunity to join him in the “31 Days to Build a Better Blog” challenge.
The project starts on 1 April and it looks like future projects will continue the biennial vein which has been created by the space in-between the previous challenges.
You do not need to register to [...]
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SitePoint is offering you the chance to buy 5 of their books (in PDF format) for the price of 1, and all of the money raised from the sale will be donated to the Australian bushfire relief fund. The usual cost of $149.75 has been reduced to $29.95 and every single payment of $29.95 will [...]
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The humble blog post title is important because it has to grab the readers’ attention. It has to draw people in; get them interested, but it also has to perform other tasks.
But what should the humble blog post title actually look like?
Take the title for this post as an example – “Is there [...]
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I have been doing a bit of blog reading today and thought I would share some of the articles I have been looking at.
32 Invaluable Sites for Web Design Ideas
I don’t think you can have enough sites in your boomarks to fall back on when you need inspiration for design ideas. There are hundreds of [...]
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There are a lot of books about blogging around these days. Most of them will cover the same topics – which blogging platform best meets your requirements, the importance of defining your own voice and creating a style, finding a niche, attracting an audience, building a readership, staying up to date with online developments and [...]
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Photo – Tawheed Manzoor
You might think all of the best domain names have been snapped up by now. You are probably right, after all, people have been buying domain names for years. When domain names were first made available there was a rush by investors (aka domainers) to snap them up as they knew how [...]
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Everybody has got to start somewhere. And when you have just started your own website or blog, you really are on the bottom rung of the ladder. The climb up the ladder is going to be long and hard and it will require a lot of time, dedication and thought.
I would say that, [...]
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It is important to track the progress (or not) of any blogs/websites you are running. This can be done by creating a simple spreadsheet which can be updated on a regular basis. The thing to be careful of when recording data in this way is not to become so focused on the statistics that you [...]
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ReelSEO is a website focused on providing valuable tips, information and other resources for video search optimization and online video marketing. The content comes from news reports, tips, conference coverage, commentary and other resources and is updated on a daily basis.
If you are serious about your online presence you cannot afford to ignore the power [...]
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Darren Rowse made another excellent point in a recent post entitled “Feeling Overwhelmed by Social Media and Web 2.0? Here Are 5 Tips For You“. The idea for the article came when Darren noticed a fellow blogger had stopped blogging and received the following response when he asked him why he had given up:
“I can’t [...]
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The Oxford Guide to Plain English is essential reading for any blogger who wishes to brush up on their English skills. It is a handy little book full of ideas and suggestions on how NOT to alienate a readership.
Whilst there are many online factors to take into consideration when trying to build up a [...]
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After writing any type of serious article, email or report, I will always leave it alone for a little while and take a break before publishing, sending or passing it on. This allows my brain to reboot and allows me to review my writing.
The tricks your brain and eyes can play on you are quite [...]
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has started a blog, candidly telling of being at risk for Parkinsons Disease and plugging his wifes genetic testing start-up firm. While Brin is no stranger to news-making webcasts and online press announcements, he made a blogging debut Thursday by sharing personal musings in a post at the Blogger weblogging website Google bought in early 2003. complete article
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Blog Comments Equals More Traffic, More Friends and a Happy Blogger
by Stephen on January 13, 2009
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I have just read a post entitled 10 Reasons Commenting is Good for Bloggers by Chris Garret (an authoritative blogger and consultant on new media) and have decided to take up his suggestion and increase the amount of time I spend commenting on other blogs.
The main reason I am going to do this [...]
Tagged as: Blogging, comments, Networking, promotion, traffic
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