This is the second in my WordPress series on creating a local mirror of your blog. This series is very hands-on practical stuff and is written for the total newbie, though geeks are also welcome ;)

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I was just surfing through the net when I came accross this very detailed report by Colin King at CK marketing.

It's good to see the big blogs getting one million unique visitors per day but it's even better to see us the new web 2.0 crowd making mistakes and trying to figure out how to do this online business thing. I actually like seei

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Writing a kick-butt post alone is not enough to win the hearts of your social media visitors.

In pre-social media days, webmasters wrote and optimized content for search engines. Now things are different. Traditional SEO has got a competitor: which is called SMO (social media optimization). Social media optimized content not only attracts

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As a few of you know, I am currently working on my custom theme for this blog. I am trying to make it clean, sharp, professional, easy to use, etc. I have gone ahead and created a concept design. Instead of just using it right away, I want to get some reader feedback and see what everyone thinks of it. Tell me what you like, what you don't l

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We all need some time to be alone. Especially if you are a blogger stuck in front of the computer for hours a hideout away from it is much needed. As for me, I hide in the basement. Call me crazy but this is how I get out of the daily stress of blogging. I know it sounds a bit ridiculous and may be a little creepy as well. As bloggers, we all

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A blog I wrote that encourages viewers to comments on blogs they read. If you've taken the time to view a blog, why not take the time to comment? Not only will you make the blogger feel good but you can receive a one-way link back to your site aka good Google juice! Sponsor good communication by commenting.

"I blog because I have somethi

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How would you like to increase your rss subscriptions? We can do a lot by submitting to various rss directories and by asking our blog visitors to hit the subscribe button, but that's about it until now.

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Hubpages is a multi user writer platform where you can create hubs (similar to blog posts) and publish. The first question you will ask is “Why should I publish my articles in Hubpages instead of my own blog?”

There are numerous answers to that. You can (and should) use Hubpagesif you are an amateur writer or a blogger running your own blo

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An interesting thing about keeping and maintaining a blog (also known as blogging) is that anyone can blog. What will make a blog more successful than most is simply a keen sense of its target readership. Of course, it will not harm the blogger (a person maintaining a blog) to possess a few basic skills navigating the Internet and creating li

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Surprise. Your Wordpress Site Isn’t Search Engine Friendly
We have all seen the standard “Wordpress SEO” articles that discuss the obvious things that you can do to optimize your Wordpress blog. Most focus on optimizing titles, permalinks, meta keyword and description tags, and possibly adding a Google sitemap.

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If you love photography, one of the ways to make extra money online is selling your photos to micro stock agencies. Micro stock agencies are the companies that store or stock your photos and pay you whenever someone buys your photos from them. The post describes some of the basics you need to know to start making extra money. Have fun taking

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I've recently had a temporary weak spot for the rss icon.rnrnVista has new styles of icons underway so I guess the standardisation of the RSS icon's look might be platform-specific, whilst /meread that IE7 has been using Firefox's design. Vista's will have its icon displaying activities relevant to the feeds.rnrnYou can choose fro

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Social media got you baffled? Feel like you’re missing a piece of the puzzle? I used to get mad at how much my site sucked at getting social media. Interestingly, it didn’t take that much change to be able to increase my results exponentially. In th

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RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication and is a way that a visitor can subscribe to a sites content. This content could be blog articles, comments or podcasts. RSS is not limited to just bloggs any website can have an RSS feed.

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