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Rather than reinvent the wheel here I’m going to share some articles I both agree with and have found helpful in the past. WordPress is extremely powerful in it’s simplicity but is made more powerful by it’s loyal users. The future of this platform is very exciting as we stretch the possibilities of traditional websites.
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Ever stop to think about who is reading your blog? No one knows your readers better than you, so what are you doing about it?
Your blog should really evolve right along side you. A few things to consider as you learn more about your readers are:
Is it easy for readers to contact you? Can you [...]
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Awhile back I decided to start posting videos on my blog. Once I had a few videos up I began to rethink my approach. Ultimately I wanted to prevent videos from showing up where normal posts are displayed and instead display my most recent video in the sidebar.
To do this, I would need to:
Suppress all video posts [...]
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There are 3 main reasons I love Thesis and why I use it for my blog;
SEO
Awesome Layout
It’s constantly being optimized
I guess what originally hooked me was the fact that most of the blogs I was reading by professionals within my industry were already on the Thesis theme. You’ve got Chris Brogan (who wrote about it [...]
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A WordPress blog is an easy way to establish a dynamic online presence however it’s also very easy to get trigger happy with plugins and themes that ultimately slow down your websites loading time. Here’s a quick little checklist to help improve your blogs performance.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about FeedBurner’s new changes where it includes FriendFeed subscribers in its total subscriber count. Unless FeedBurner removes this new feature, subscriber stats may be flawed forever. I don’t want to bore you with all the reasons why this is a bad idea, so instead I’m just going to say I [...]
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My name is Jonathan Bishop and I make websites. I work and play in social media and continue to further my understanding of these interactive technologies.
Are “Social Mentions” And “Twitter Trackbacks” Just Taking Up Space?
by Jon Bishop on June 29, 2009
in Blogging
You may have seen some of the following solutions installed on some of your favorite blogs:
Ubervu
BackType
TweetBacks
Disqus
ChatCatcher
IntenseDebate
The idea is to bring all comments about your posts into the posts themselves in an effort to centralize the conversation. This seems like a great idea until you put it into practice.
The main problem with most, if not all, [...]
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