Archive | February, 2009

What to do in the first week of starting your blog

It has been a week, actually a week and a day since I started this new blog.  I wanted to recap all that I have done after setting up the blog.  This post can also be called, “The top 7 things to do after you install your blog.”  Here they are : Content- This is [...]

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How to write a killer “About Me” page for your blog

One of my biggest pet peeves when reading other people’s blogs is when they have no “about me” page or if the “about me”  page is poorly written.  The absolute worst thing is when they keep the default page, they lose all credibility with me at that point.  I am a week into this blog [...]

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Tycoon Blogger joins the do follow movement

I just added a new plugin to my blog today.  It is the “no-follow free” plugin, what this does is allow people to add a comment with a link to their site in order to gain a backlink.  By default wordpress has a nofollow attribute which tells Google not to use that link as a [...]

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What is the best Forum for Bloggers?

Yesterday, I mentioned that I spent some time submitting to blog directories.  Today, I spent some time promoting my blog on several blogger forums.  I have found that joining and becoming active on webmaster and blogger forums is a great way to gain backlinks for your blog and also a great source of traffic.  There [...]

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Best Free Blog Directories

I am four days into this blog and I have some of the basics set up.  I have changedthe theme, added a new logo, activated the “seo” plugin and added some content.  Today, I took some time and started to work on adding my blog to some free blog directories.  I have done a good [...]

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best wordpress plug-in

If you have been following my blog from the beginning, you know that I am building this piece by piece and keeping you posted on each step in the process.  Today, I installed my first plug-in, there will be many more to follow, but I am taking this slowly at first.  One of the most [...]

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