From the category archives:

Blogging

Every blogger suffers writer’s block at some point. It’s inevitable. And extremely frustrating. For some it means months without creating any new content, while others can recover much more quickly.
Skribit (the project of Paul Stamatiou and others) is a service that’s designed to help you defeat writer’s block. It also has the potential of increasing [...]

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I’ve known about the Thesis WordPress theme for some time, having followed its launch and use by a lot of friends and colleagues. I always knew it was a worthwhile theme, but never had a project to use it on until recently.
Recently my wife launched her own site – I Spy Montreal – for parents [...]

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Is Linkbait Dead?

August 18, 2009

The simplest definition of linkbait is a blog post that attracts people’s attention enough to get them to link back to the post. Getting links to a blog post is crucial for SEO.
Generally speaking: more links = better SEO. And better SEO = more traffic.
I’m simplifying, but the basic premise is there. For [...]

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I’ve moved hosting companies because my old one was falling apart. This is a quick test post to make sure the DNS is propagating properly.
You should not have to update your RSS feeds, but when you see this message in your RSS feed, please click through and take a look to make sure everything is [...]

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It’s almost impossible to keep track of all the latest widgets, gadgets, plugins and features available for bloggers. New stuff is coming out daily, which is understandable, there are millions and millions of bloggers, and many of them are very dedicated to blogging — that’s a nice market with interesting opportunities.
Few companies have really capitalized [...]

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