WordPress SEO and Blog Marketing

This post is part of the blog improvement series, which is designed to help you as well as your readers get the most out of your blog.

Sometimes giving someone more choices can make one’s life a little more difficult since, by nature, people can become overwhelmed with too many options. However, one area where you want to offer more choices is with how people can receive the content from your blog.

The most common option available to bloggers is the main RSS feed. It allows someone to subscribe to all of the blog’s content via an RSS reader. Great option, but sometimes people don’t want to subscribe to all the blog’s content and would only like to get updates when a specific section is updated. Continue reading »

This post is part of the blog improvement series, which is designed to help you as well as your readers get the most out of your blog.

Life doesn’t stand still. People are constantly moving, changing, learning, and growing. That means you’ve likely changed a lot, along with your blog, since its launch. Now is a good time to reflect on those changes and think about getting your readers up to speed.

Take some time to read your entire “About” page (you do have an about page, don’t you?) and see whether the information you presented is still relevant to your blog.

Some of the information that your “About” page should contain is:

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This post is part of the blog improvement series, which is designed to help you as well as your readers get the most out of your blog.

This tip is an oldie, but a goodie nonetheless. Plus, it’s that time of year when every blogger should take a step back from the blog and make some difficult decisions when it comes to the sidebar.

What tends to happen over the course of a year is that bloggers come across new and interesting projects, promotions, and widgets. Each one of them just gets jammed in the sidebar without too much thought and months later, the sidebar has grown out of control.

I’ve been seeing this more and more as I surf through the blogosphere and this post is simply a reminder that it’s time to de-clutter that sidebar.

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This post is part of the blog improvement series, which is designed to help you as well as your readers get the most out of your blog.

Comment spam is one of those things that just is. Over time we’ve come to deal with it and not really give it a second thought. But if you’re running a WordPress blog, then you might want to.

I’ve logged into client blogs which are hefting around thousands of comment spam, mostly trapped in the Akismet or moderation queue. But they’re not being displayed on the blog, so what’s the big deal?

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(Cue crickets chirping.)

This blog has been unseasonably quiet, not because I no longer care, but because I’ve been occupied elsewhere. A good chunk of my time has been divided between updating my current scripts, managing my website geared specifically toward affiliate marketers, and client projects. But another chunk of my time (the time I would usually spend finding, writing, and polishing content here) is going toward preparing a full fledged WordPress reference guide. Continue reading »