There are so many people wasting their time trying to build backlinks on DoFollow blogs, the wrong way, I felt compelled to write about it. Well, not really. A fellow blogger asked me to write about it, so I did.

He also asked me to give my thoughts about the CommentLuv WordPress Plugin, which I did. I neglected to mention

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Stephen Cronin of "More Than Scratch the Surface" released a WordPress plugin to help commenters build keyword-rich backlinks.

I wrote about it on my own blog, "Untwisted Vortex" here:

http://www.untwistedvortex.com/2008/04/04/wordpress-plugin-keywordluv/

And I'm already using it. Whether Google values the backli

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After a short hiatus, I'm back with my thoughts on themes, RSS feeds and splogs.

I've noticed a lot of bloggers changing their themes and I'm sure some of it was unnecessary work.
I've also noticed, while re-subscribing to feeds after clearing out my Google Reader account, that the buttons and links for feeds were eith

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I took advantage of a current events topic to explain how staying up-to-date within your niche can increase your website traffic.

The topic I chose was cancer and how genetics are involved. I linked to several blogs to make my point.

If you use SEO in your blog posts, you shouldn't have any problems getting to the top of

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This lady needs a miracle. Her husband's truck was stolen and his guitar was stolen. She and her husband need both a vehicle and guitar so that he can earn money giving guitar lessons and fulfilling contracts.

The blogging community did it once before, for me, and I'm attempting to pay it forward somewhat by helping her ou

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Do you tire of reading the same topics across multiple blogs? I certainly do. I call it the "monkey see, monkey do" mentality. Bloggers tend to write about the same things at the same time and it gets old really fast.

I challenge all bloggers, and not just those in the blog about blogging and making money online niches, to

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This is a product review article that I did in thanks for free shaving cream sent to me from Modern Gent in the U.K. (to the Philippines). I slipped in some mild humor while doing so and bunch of internal links.

Ultra Shave is a not your normal shaving cream and has an unpatentable side effect of keeping insects off the fac

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What happens when you take a common phrase, like sh** happens, and replace it with "shiitake happens" and then write about it?

You get an unintentional humor piece about shiitake mushrooms, that's what.

I went back and edited it a bit after publishing, so that you can get the full effect.If you don't click through a

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Darren Rowse recently shared the secret of anticipation to get new RSS feed subscribers. Now I'm sharing some of the methods I use to write great content.

Great content will fuel the anticipation because readers will subscribe to your feed because of what you may write, based on what you have already written.

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I've seen the question of how to optimize for either social traffic or search engine traffic pop up from time to time and in this article, I try to address some of the more common things to be concerned about.

I also pointed to the sources I use. If you're a regular and repeat BloggingZoom user, you'll know exactly the so

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This is another article I wrote in response to a comment request. This time it's on keyword stuffing. I took it a little further and added slugs, titles and content.

Since I'm not a search engine optimization expert, the best I can do is point you to relevant articles written by the people and entities that are.

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These are merely my thoughts on brand associations and power stumbling. I was inspired to write it by reading two articles from Dosh Dosh.

Maki is an expert on brand associations, linking anime-style images to his blog, as well as his StumbleUpon avatar. He's also an expert on power stumbling.

In April, I'm goi

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This isn't intended to be a comprehesive guide to proper post titles. It's intended to provide a clue to the clueless.

I was inspired to write it by a comment on a previous post, along with the anticipation of another commenter.

Creating a proper post title can be an art form in itself. My personal guide is at

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I've been seeing too many comments, in too many places, which tell me that the commenters simply do not understand what pings, pingbacks, and trackbacks are and how useful they can be.

I wrote a guest post on another blog back in August that was widely and favorably accepted, but I went into more detail about specific

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It's inevitable. The Digg Bury Brigade already exists, even though the cronies at Digg will deny it until the cows come home. My apologies to the cows.

I wrote this article with one intent: To make you aware of what will happen eventually. The BZ Bury Brigade will make an appearance and it's up to us as well as Vic a

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