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How Am I Planning For The Case Study?

Do you have a plan? I have sat down and wrote a plan for the case study blog – the photographer blog. I think it is important to set out some goals for the new blog to give me something to work to and a structure to follow. Which will be helpful and keep me focused [...]

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Hot Links – Episode 6!

This week in Hot Links: Skelliewag is a fairly new blog that has achieved a lot of growth in a small space of time, and has a really interesting article explaining how she did it: How to get 1,050 subscribers in 3 months. I looked at plugins in my last post, 10 Essential Wordpress Plugins. If you [...]

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10 Essential Wordpress Plugins

This is a list of the plugins (in no particular order) I use on my blogs and what I think are essential plugins for any Wordpress blog. All the plugins come with installation and configuration instructions once downloaded and the file unzipped: 1. SEO Title Tag This plugin allows you to edit the post title that appears [...]

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How To Change A Wordpress Theme

Do you like my new theme for Build a Blog, it is very different to my last one, but I really like it and think it suits the blog very well. What do you think? Why Did I Want To Change? The main reason I wanted to change my theme was presentation. The above the fold area, [...]

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Hot Links – Episode 5!

This week in hot links: I have heard about the Blog Herald a lot over the last couple of months but I have never got around to visiting until now. I wish I had done it sooner because it is a really good news site for blogging, and has a group of contributors which gives it a nice [...]

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How To Find A Good Theme

First Decisions I am up to that part of the case study when I need to find a theme for the photographer blog. Now I really enjoyed doing this I love design and it was great seeing all the different types. Now there are lots of decisions to be made when deciding on a blog theme the [...]

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Hot Links – Episode 4!

This week has been a bit challenging, my broadband connection has been down and getting it back up and running again was a little stressful. It’s amazing how lost we are without it, it was like my right arm had been cut off, I must come up with a back up plan in case it [...]

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How To Install Wordpress Onto An Addon Domain

This article is part of a case study following how I set up and run a new blog, about photography called the photographer blog, if you would like to find out more then please visit the case study category. So I have registered my domain name for the case study blog – thephotographerblog.com and now it [...]

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How To Choose A Domain Name

Where on earth do you start? With more then 46 million active dot com domain names registered, it is getting harder and harder to find the right domain name. I have been looking for a domain name for the case study blog on photography. It’s not been as easy as I thought it would be, a [...]

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Hot Links – Episode 3!

Time again for this weeks hot links. This week I thought I would share some of the blogs and information I have come across while doing market research, particularly for keyword research for the photography case study blog. There is a lot of software available to help with keyword research, as well as subscription sites (that [...]

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