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Becoming a huge hit in the world of blogging is tough. Henri Junttila diagnoses the success of his favorite band, Iron Maiden and shows you what you can learn from that success. Want to write for us too?

Being a successful blogger depends entirely on what you want to get out of it and what your goals are.

When the English heavy metal band, Iron Maiden started, they were nobodies. They remained nobodies for quite a while, until of course their popularity exploded and became known all over the world. Now, the band is quite legendary.

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King's Ultimate Guide to Blog Design Perfection

King’s Ultimate Guide to Blog Design Perfection

by King Sidharth

Each year brings us new trends be it fashion, films, web design of blogging. I am not a professional designer or anything – just a curious student of life who spends hours looking at great blog designs and taking notes of what pleases me about it.
I do have quite a stack of notes on design, [...]

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What Every Blogger Should Know About Design When Buying a Theme

by Seth

Getting a new design for your blog is both time consuming and expensive.  There are many great options for free themes but too often these themes do not have very many features and require a lot of extra work.
Purchasing a theme from premium theme designers or paying for a custom design can not only give [...]

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Recreating the Sleek, Orange Subscribe Box on Blogussion

Recreating the Sleek, Orange Subscribe Box on Blogussion

by Alex

I get a few emails every once in a while asking me how I created the glorious orange subscribe box you see in the sidebar.

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How To Display RSS and Twitter Count in Plain Text

How To Display RSS and Twitter Count in Plain Text

by Alex

Here is a neat trick to making your blog look better. I hate seeing those default Feedburner and Twittercounter chicklets on other people’s blog, because they look so ugly. No matter what color you change them, they never look nice. So, wouldn’t a neat trick be to display these counter on your own terms?

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Customizing Input Forms

4 Tricks For “Awesome-izing” Input Forms

by Alex

Input forms are commonly used throughout your blog, and I see a lot of input forms that surprisingly are left untouched and uncared for.
When you want people to signup for your newsletter or RSS feed via email, you usually have an input form that will take the users email address and submit it. But did [...]

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4 Stand-Out SEO-Blogs

4 Top SEO-Blogs & Their Priceless Resources Pt. 1

by Janith

Search Engine Optimization is a pretty saturated niche, with new blogs being dedicated for it almost on a daily basis. As always, every saturated (and also non-saturated) niche tend to have “top-dogs” and it’s nothing different here.
No matter how ill-equipped you are – when it comes to SEO; there’s countless number of free resources available [...]

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Tracking Your SEO Performance

Tracking Your SEO Performance

by Nicolas Prudhon

A major factor in achieving good SEO status is tracking your progression. In this post, our favorite SEO guy, Nicolas Prudhon (author of SEO for Web 2.0) goes over some great ways to track your SEO progress and use that information to help you for the best.
Is there something more than checking your search engine [...]

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Make your 404 Page More Decriptive

How to Create an Informative “404 Error” Page

by Alex

Believe it or not 404 error pages are a very important part of your website. Just because it’s (hopefully) the least viewed page on your blog doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be paid attention to. The reason why it is so important is because it serves as a gateway for lost and misguided users on your [...]

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Stellar tips for styling your content area

Stellar tips for styling your content area

by Alex

The content area of your blog is where your posts are displayed once you publish them. It is probably the most important of your website because it is the heart of your blog. Everything in that space is the reason why people visit your blog, so you have to work extra hard to make it [...]

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Questions to ask yourself when choosing a template

Questions to ask yourself when choosing a template

by Ali Hussain

If you’re a novice blogger, feeling extremely overwhelmed by the number of templates available on the Web, here is small lists of questions to help out choose the appropriate template for your blog. While this it’s definitely not an exhaustive list and you may have something different in mind, should you feel need a place [...]

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Blog Design: Making the most out of your footer space

Blog Design: Making the most out of your footer space

by Alex

The footer (the very end of your blog) is a very important place of information on your blog. Your footer can hold a variety of information, such as copyrights, links, ads, and a lot of other stuff. The footer is also important SEO wise for a lot of reasons. Reasons I will cover in this [...]

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