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7 Tools That Make it Easy to Organize and Simplify Your Blogging Life

Let’s face it, blogging is a ton of work. You’ve got to keep up with your social media profiles, create and organize tons of content (both in written and video form), and you’ve got to market like crazy just to stay relevant. Some of you have children to take care of, day jobs to go to, relationships to maintain, and so on.It’s definitely a crazy blogging world we live in, but there’s a way to tone down the craziness just a little bit.You might be thinking that you’re already pretty organized (and maybe you are), but it’d be a mistake to think you can’t benefit from new ways to organize and simplify things.

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Basic WordPress SEO Tips

Basic WordPress SEO Tools at Your Fingertips

You set up a blog. The design is great, your selected niche is perfect, but … visitors just won’t start rolling in?! Why is that? Thing is, you need to also do SEO. Yeah, I know what you may say. You’re already building links and doing a whole lot of other sorts of things. What you may have not done is making sure that your WordPress site is properly fine-tuned in terms of on-page SEO and your WordPress setup in general. It goes without saying that building links is a primal must for every single blogger, but at the same time you may be leaving money on the table just because your WordPress is not setup as it’s supposed to be. Why not get the biggest bang possible for your buck? That’s exactly what the post is about.

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Joost De Valk

Blogger Interview: Joost de Valk aka Yoast

In this installment of the blogger interviews series, I have the chance to introduce to you to Joost De Valk aka Yoast. We chat about WordPress, plugin development, SEO, blogging conferences, social media and more. He also give us an insider tip about what might be coming to the next version of WordPress.…continue reading…

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Top 5 WordPress Plugins for Fashion Blogs

There are a lot of fashion blogs out in the blogospere. So when I decided to start my fashion blog, Chic Renegade, I knew that if I wanted to seriously compete for traffic, I had my work cut out for me. I must admit that although I only started the blog about a month and a half ago, I have a little more experience in traffic generation being that I have been blogging for three years and this is my third blog. Although a lot of fashion bloggers use Blogger’s Blogspot platform, I decided to use WordPress because I am a WordPress junkie! Before I actually started my fashion blog, I had an idea of what functions and design elements I wanted since I am so familiar with WordPress and a good amount of its plugins. I also, picked up a few new plugins during the building process that have proven to be the perfect plugins for a fashion blog.

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