Drive Traffic to Your Blog Via Memes

Memes are a great way to introduce your blog to others and build traffic. They’re also great writing prompts, too, which is invaluable when you’re ’stuck’ trying to think up a meaningful blog post. What is ‘a meme’? Well, actually, it can mean a few things. Read on…

Link to Your Own Content Without Mucking Up Your Comments

When someone links to your WordPress blog, a pingback/trackback type of comment shows up in your comment list for that post. The same type of pingback comment is created when you link to your own content. I like my comment streams to be clean and clear, so I’m constantly deleting the pingbacks as soon as they’re created. Not only is that ‘extra work’ I could do without, but I it makes me think twice before I link to content elsewhere on my blog. Finally, a pair of plugins that make linking to your own content super easy and eliminate the ‘extra work’ of the unwanted pingbacks!

Use Gravatars to Build Recognition

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Spread your smile around the web with your own Gravatar!

With the advent of WordPress 2.5.1 comes the integration of Gravatars. What are Gravatars [...]

How Often Should I Blog?

One of the most frequent questions new bloggers ask is, “How often should I blog?” The answer depends on you, your time available, your overall blogging objective and a good dose of experimentation.

What’s Keeping You from Blogging?

No doubt, the idea of starting a blog has crossed your mind. But is that as far as it’s gotten?

I suspect there are many, many of you out there who no longer need to be convinced of the benefits of blogging. If you’re not blogging, I bet the reason is that the whole idea, from choosing the right platform to figuring out what to blog about and everything in between, is just overwhelming. Multiply that by 100 if you don’t consider yourself a ‘technical’ type of person.