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Website Traffic Series Part 20: Leveraging Holidays and Big Events

Christmas, thanksgiving, the summer Olympic games, the U.S. presidential elections, you name it. For most people those are holidays where they rest and hang out with family and friends, or big events that they watch on television. For website owners and Internet marketers, however, those are great traffic generation opportunities!

The concept: The Internet is already [...]

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Write Your Titles CAREFULLY and AFTER the Post

I confess that this is a mistake that I used to do myself. When starting to write a new post, I would start with the title, move to the body of the post, proofread it and publish.
Why is this method not effective? For two reasons.
First of all because it makes you neglect the title, [...]

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15,000 RSS Subscribers Milestone

Daily Blog Tips is just over 15,000 RSS subscribers, and I wanted to extend a thank you to all the readers, subscribers and supporters. I have a lot of fun writing here every day, and the fact that people take the time to read my words is flattering.
I remember when I started blogging in 2005. [...]

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What to Do When People Unsubscribe?

If you offer email subscription via Feedburner, you probably noticed that you have the option to be notified whenever someone unsubscribes from your blog. I have this featured enabled, and on Daily Blog Tips around 3 people unsubscribe every week (luckily more than that subscribe, so the net result is positive).
Now the question that arises [...]

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10 things you need to look for in WordPress 2.7.

Vertical Menus - This is a radical redesign of the WordPress backend. Aaron predicts that you might hate the new menu for a while, but it will grow on you.
Dashboard - The new redesigned dashboard doesn’t only look sexier - it’s easily customizable. The “Screen Options” button in the upper right gives you access to [...]

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WordPress 2.6.5 Security Upgrade

WordPress 2.6.5 is now available for download. I know some of you guys aren’t too keen on going through another security upgrade and would want to hold off upgrading until 2.7 gets released. The Automattic team, however, is recommending that everyone upgrades immediately. But According to the update page.
So there you have it boys and [...]

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Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

I have watched thousands of videos and never saw it.  I thought it would be a great thing to put it on my blog. So here it is.

convey_url = “http%3A%2F%2Fwww.softonix.com%2F2008%2F11%2F22%2Fweb-20-the-machine-is-using-us%2F”;convey_source = “English”;convey_user = “wordpress”;convey_type = 1;

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Tip’d: Social Bookmarking For Financial Stuff

Exactly one month ago Tip’d was launched in beta. It works as a social bookmarking site on the financial niche. Today they are launching officially as version 1.0, so it is worth a look if you are into financial news and articles.
Here are some statistics from the site, copied from the press release:
We have reached [...]

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Win A Free License of the Flexx Theme for WordPress

It looks like my newsletter subscribers are in for a good ride. Pretty much every week some company approaches me to offer a free trial of its service or some free licenses to its products. When the offer is valuable and relevant for my readers, I am glad to accept it. It is a situation [...]

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If You Are Going To Use a Static Homepage, Hand Code It in WordPress

As most of you probably already know, WordPress is expanding far beyond a blogging platform, towards a complete Content Management System (CMS). In simple words, this means that the WordPress open source software can be used to build virtually any type of website, including blogs, company sites and online stores.
One of the features that WordPress [...]

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