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What Really Happens If You Stop Updating Your Blog For Weeks

Come on, who is not victim of this fear? A fear that, with years, has taken place of the past and common nightmare of the missing high school license exam for an alarm-clock that didn’t go off. That’s a true nightmare for any blogger: what happens if I am not regular in updating my blog?

A part from any sort of blogger or information overload mania, what will really happen in case we stop up-dating our site? Which are the risks we run? Continue reading

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Blogging Strategies: How To Plan A Successful Blog In 8 Simple Steps

The recipe for a successful blog is not complicated. This post is dedicated for whom wants to start a blog but doesn’t know how to and for the ones who can’t make their own blog take off.

If you want to begin in a simple way not necessarily creating original content, here’s how to create the basis of a successful blog. Continue reading

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WordPress Themes: A Selection Of Great Templates For Your Blog

Searching for good templates is hard once you come across the huge amount of layouts available, therefore the choice on selecting and sharing the best websites that offer templates for all demands: professional, amateur, free and paid ones. Continue reading

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Usability And Optimization: Why Too Much Widgets Can Penalize Your Blog

Adds-on and widgets for blogs generally allow a better interaction with readers and integrate marketing and social networking functionalities, etc. to your pages, however that can generate undesirable and unpredictable consequences.

The Javascript code that embed the widget into your web pages is just made of fews characters, although it is not the widget itself but it just specify where and how to download it. You don’t know how much Kb the browser needs to download in order to display your last twit, or the most recent MyblogLog readers. In this way, the load time of your pages can increase without control. Continue reading

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Problogging: How To Write Post That Attract Traffic For a Long Time

Permalink means permanent connection to a content. This simple concept hides one of the strength points of any blog: information longevity, that is to say the period of time a information keep on being relevant and updated. Continue reading

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Top 5 Must-Know To Blog Without Stress

Maintaining a blog easily, and then a relevant web site, is very important as you can guarantee a good quality and continuity in the updates.

What follows here are not real rules but just few simple considerations as a result of a long lasting experience and publications of several articles on the subject. Continue reading

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Trackback PHP Programming, How To Guide

Trackback is a system introduced by Movable Type to allow the connection between different post blogs. This cross-posting technique has put in contact all the blogs supporting the feature, playing an important role in the exponential growth this self publishing tool has experienced over the last few years. Continue reading

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FeedBurner, Boost Your Content Distribution

I tried, tested and used Feedburner, a free service to diffuse contents through feeds RSS (the most widespread) or of other kinds such as Podcast. Actually I was positively impressed by the automation level Feedburner offers with regard to operations usually made by hand such as signaling updates to pinging services, tools to subscribe to feeds with different kinds of aggregators through the web site, feed circulation monitoring and much more. Continue reading

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Why AdSense Earnings Are Falling Down

Most publishers have complained about an accentuated drop in Adsense revenues, which has led them to begin a desperate search for alternative traffic monetization systems (affiliates, link building circuits, pay per action, etc.).

Actually, whoever invests on online advertising, especially on pay-per-click programs such as Adwords, knows pretty well that this drop might be connected to the world economical crisis and understands the reasons why the clicks have paid less and less (not considering willingly other factors as smartpricing). Continue reading

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Affiliate Programs: How To Get The Most Out Of Pay Per Action Ads

Affiliate programs pay-per-lead or pay-per-sell kind pay when the click is converted into a register/action/sale and, generally, they’re snubbed by most bloggers who tend to use only Adsense contextual branding.

They could, however, constitute a valuable alternative and create a second leg to stand on in order to avoid depending on one source only.

But, let’s speak clearly: banners and graphic ads can’t compete with contextual ads on blogs, unless… Continue reading

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