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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Google Analytics: Metrics Worth Tracking

by Seth

Understanding the importance of statistics for your blog is an important step in developing your blog.  The best way to find success is by measuring performance and striving to improve it.
Now do not get me wrong, spending hours every day looking at them will not help you.  That is too much time spent on numbers [...]

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WP Robot - Powerful Content Generation for WordPress

WP Robot – Powerful Content Generation for WordPress

by Alex

I have never gotten into the idea of generating content automatically on a blog, but that wasn’t until I did a little research on it. Auto content generation can be very popular for flipping blog websites, and creating some great blogs.

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Building Trust in a Partnership

by Seth

Trust is the most advantageous asset in a partnership.  It is a prediction of reliance in another person.  Partnerships depend on using trust to get their tasks accomplished.  Without reliance on the other partner, most relationships fail.
Partnerships are perhaps the most advantageous way of working online.  With the right combination of partners, projects can receive [...]

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#1 Traffic Tip You Are Not Ready For

by Seth

Now before you start getting angry at me for determining what you’re ready for, let me explain why I made the title what it is.
In the last 2 years of blogging I have seen 2 fatal flaws which hinder almost every blogger from becoming successful.  These flaws are nasty and sometimes seem overwhelming.

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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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Prevent Blog Downtime

6 Plugins You Should Always Have Ready For Blog Emergencies

by Alex

Crazy things can happen to any blog at any time. Some make sure to be prepared for these things, and others may not be as prepared.
Crackers, hackers, massive floods of traffic, database errors and many more things are all preventable. With the WordPress community being as large as it is, there have been many great [...]

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Changes, Opportunities & New Features Coming to Blogussion + A Farewell to Janith

by Alex

Things have been crazy for me over the last week. It was my birthday, I was making the transition from New Jersey to Florida for a month and a half, I was having issues finding a computer to continue my work, and Janith has told me he resigned from Blogussion. I’ve been busy.

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The Importance of a Trustworthy Webhost

The Importance of a Trustworthy Webhost

by Matt Ellis

Although it is one of – if not – the most important ingrediants to success, quality web hosting is usually overlooked because you want to grab a bargain rather than part with your cash for what would seem to be a similar if not identical solution.
Unfortunately, most bloggers learn the hard way that you get [...]

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5 Pet Peeves of Blogging

5 Funny Things Bloggers Do To Make Their Blog Look More “Official”

by Alex

In this hectic world of blogging where all we want is acceptance, we often tend to do things out of the ordinary to gain this feeling of “fitting in” and “success” into our heads.
As redemption for these things we do, it’s time for someone to stand up and make fun of these people. That’s going [...]

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Time to Switch to Dofollow Comments

Time to Switch to Dofollow Comments

by jitendraag

As a followup to a past post on Blogussion about the Google Algorithm change, “Jeet” from GetLinksPro has explained the impact of the change in his own words.
I have always advised bloggers to switch to dofollow comments and moderate the comments with a tight fist. This not only rewards the contributors it also brings a [...]

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Long Term Methods for Effectively Promoting Your Blog on Forums

4 Unusual (And Long Term) Ways to Promote Your Blog Using Forums

by Alex

Everyone knows that using forum signatures is a good way to generate some backlinks. However, there are other ways to use forums to your advantage.
The ideas I came up with in here are ideas that may take a little longer for you to accomplish than the average forum promotion tactic. While you should always go [...]

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Why Content Is Still King

Why Content Is Still King

by Janith

Almost every webmaster runs his/her website with one task in mind; to gain the more traffic. It’s not a surprise either because traffic means a lot to many; including the single-most contributory factor in the amount you earn through your site.
With this in mind, many webmasters strive or even dedicate whole blogs to produce [...]

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