Archive for March, 2009

Need To Move Your Blog To WordPress?

Monday, March 30th, 2009

We’ve talked about the benefits of owning your own blog, but what if you’ve already got a blog someplace else and want to move it to your own, hosted, WordPress blog? You can do that.

WordPress offers a number of easy import options for most major free or paid blogging platforms out there. This makes it easy to move away from other software to your own, hosted, WordPress blog.

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Is Your Blog Worth Reading?

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

If you are a web surfer looking for new blogs here are a few trigger points that can help you determine if a blog is worth reading or not. If you are a blogger, generating content, use this list as an audit to help ensure your blog is attracting visitors, not turning them away.

Design - The blog design is the visitors first impression. Is it well designed or is there to much clutter? Is it a custom design or a basic template? The blog design is very important, much like how the way one dresses can impact how others perceive them even before talking to them.

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What Makes a Blog Post Perfect?

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Is there such a thing as the “perfect blog post”? Probably not. Certainly I’ve seen great blog posts over the years, and I have even been lucky enough to have more than my share of blog posts that ended up being popular. I have news for you, though: a blog post does not have to “go viral” on some social network in order to be the “perfect blog post”. In this blog post, I’m going to tell you exactly how to write the perfect blog post. And you don’t to be an incredible writer to do it.

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