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How To Insert an Image into WordPress

by Martin on 28 August, 2009

in Wordpress

I saw a thread today on the Warrior Forum from someone having trouble inserting an image into a WordPress post. From what he said on the thread I think the cause was more than just finger trouble – but I figured I’d put up a process for it anyway. So here it is – how [...]

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What’s Your Blogging Voice?

by Martin on 17 August, 2009

in Blogging

Just lately the term ‘blogging voice’ seems to be popping up everywhere. What on earth does it mean? A new technology? Audio blogging? Actually no. It’s much simpler than that in concept, but quite tough to get in practice. But you do need to get it, because it forms part of your branding.

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Authority Rules OK

by Martin on 6 August, 2009

in Internet Marketing

I’ve just read Brian Clark’s latest freebie, Authority Rules. Releasing a publication as good as this for free is, itself, a master-class in marketing on-line. Seth Godin talks about doing things that are remarkable in order to create authority and get people to notice you. Authority Rules expands the boundaries of remarkable. By a long [...]

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Thanks to my time and salary being cut by 30% at my day job, I’ve been able to work at home and focus more time on my Internet work. So what have been the benefits? Well it’s nice not to have to work until 1 in the morning because I’m doing 2 jobs, and it’s [...]

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Do You Make This Mistake?

by Martin on 3 August, 2009

in Internet Marketing

“Please post your answer on my blog”. That was the request at the end of a question I read on one of my social sites last week. I see similar requests on other sites. Things like ‘please visit my blog and leave a comment’. If there’s one thing that guarantees I won’t visit their blog, [...]

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A while ago I published a step-by-step process for moving the content (posts, comments and labels) from your Blogger blog to a WordPress blog. You can find it here. What I didn’t cover in that post, and what I’ve seen a lot of questions on since, is how to ensure you don’t lose your followers [...]

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I’ve been following the questions that people who are using WordPress have been asking on Twitter. As a result, I’ve put together a complete WordPress Tutorial that is designed for people using self-hosted WordPress (from WordPress.org) on their own domains. It takes them from deciding on a domain name, through finding a hosting provider to [...]

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I saw a question recently asking how to attach a Word or .PDF file to a WordPress blog post. Here’s the response I offered: There are 3 ways you can do this… Firstly:

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Backlinks, No Follow and Page Rank

by Martin on 18 March, 2009

in SEO

I received a question through my Dear Martin page the other day from someone who was asking how backlinks affected page rank, and how the ‘nofollow’ tag affected backlinks, therefore affecting page rank. Here’s the response I offered: The first thing I’d say is don’t get hung up on Page Rank and all that other [...]

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Another question that I see quite often is how to move a blog from Blogger (Blogspot) to WordPress. It’s actually a pretty straightforward process but, as in anything to do with moving data and content around, things can go wrong. So here’s a step-by-step process.  

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So you’re thinking of moving to WordPress but you’re not sure how to set it up… It does take a bit of care at the outset, but the time you spend now getting everything into shape will be more than repaid later.  It’ll enable you to focus on your content (the purpose of a blog!) [...]

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What Am I Going To Do in 2009?

by Martin on 28 December, 2008

in Blogging

Thanks to my Google Friend Connect widget I stumbled across a great blog today:

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How Does A Blog Benefit SEO?

by Martin on 6 October, 2008

in SEO

I just saw an interesting question in a forum: how does a blog help with SEO?  Here’s the answer I offered: An active (and that’s important) blog is attractive to a search engine for three primary reasons: It’s updated with new information regularly Through the mechanism of tags and categories (or labels on blogger), its [...]

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I saw a question in one of the forums this week that asked whether a blog could be used to set up landing pages containing product reviews for a wide range of products. The review pages (blog) would be promoted through Pay Per Click or article marketing campaigns, and direct visitors on to the actual [...]

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Important Update – 30th March, 2010: It seems, as of the last couple of days, that Blogger has changed its attitude towards using Blogger blogs to funnel traffic towards affiliate sites.  See this thread in the Warrior Forum, and note the 11th and 13th comments. As a result, I strongly urge you to check the [...]

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How To Get The Most From a Blog

by Martin on 10 August, 2008

in Blogging

Do you ever land on a blog post from somewhere – could be a search or a link someone has given you – read the post and think ‘Hey – that was great information…’?  You may even book mark it so you can go back later or pass the link on to a friend. But [...]

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