I started using Google Chrome over a year ago and I’m always finding useful extensions that make browsing the internet so much easier. In this video I give you a quick tour of the extensions installed on my Chrome toolbar and how to find great apps in the Chrome Web Store. I also share my tip for an easy way to manage all of your Chrome Extensions at once! …continue reading…
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You’re thinking about investing in the premium version of CommentLuv, here’s what you need to consider before you take the leap! CommentLuv is a WordPress plugin that you install on your blog to reward those who comment on your blog posts, by allowing them include a link to one of their blog posts in their comment. Many popular bloggers, myself included, prefer using CommentLuv over the other alternative commenting systems available for WordPress like Disqus, and Livefyre and Intense Debate.The latest version of this plugin is CommentLuv 2.9 and it’s available for free. …continue reading…
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Since the first day Andy Bailey hinted that he was working on the release of CommentLuv Premium, I’ve literally been dying to get my hand on it. Well not exactly dying but you get the idea. As you can imagine I was quite pleased when I got the email announcing that I was approved as a beta tester for CommentLuv Premium.
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Listing 10 major SEO Practices to avoid is an easy job when you have committed most of these SEO crimes personally. If you have been in this blogging game for as long as I have, I am almost sure you will notice a few of your search engine optimization sins listed here too.
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We all want to speed up our blogs and one of the easiest ways to do that is by removing WordPress Plugins that impact the time it takes for the pages of your blog to load, and provide little benefit to our readers. Personally I have nothing against any of these plugins or the developers. And as far as I know, each one of them does a fine job of living up to expectations in terms of functionality and purpose. But quite frankly, in the grand scheme of things, we can certainly live without them.
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An effective landing page is very important and possibly your front in traffic marketing for your blog; you need to be extra careful with this page. There are some very common mistakes that can ruin the effectiveness of your landing page. Learn to recognize them and improve upon them to create a self sufficient landing page for your blog.
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I decided to make a more concerted effort to blog more and raise my online profile a bit. I also started doing more guest blogging for clients, authoring posts which linked to their site or resource. (While I know guest blogging is a strategy that many abuse, I ensure that I deliver quality posts.) Over the next couple of months, I published posts here on BasicBlogTips, on the Authopublisher site, on Growmap, on an online women’s magazine and in a few other places, and it’s clear to me that this has resulted in more traffic to my main writing blog.
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