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Do You Use Social Networking?

And if so which one? Social Networking is part of the new web 2.0 technologies and comes under the umbrella of Social Media which also includes blogs, forums, message boards, podcasts, video and pictures. How does Social Networking work? They use the collective view of the community to form an opinion, understanding or just share the information [...]

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Case Study Blog Review

At the beginning of March my case study blog, The Photographer Blog will be 3 months old so I thought it would be a good time to do a quarterly review of how it is doing. I said I would report how it is going, but it does make me feel a little nervous being [...]

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RSS Footer Plugin – An Essential Plugin

I have found some really good plugins recently that save a lot of time and effort on my part, like the Wordpress automatic upgrade plugin that I have just used to upgrade both blogs to version 2.3.3 with just one click! And now I have just come across another extremely useful plugin, the RSS Footer plugin [...]

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Are Your Plugins Up To Date?

Updating your plugins I got myself in a right pickle over this recently with the case study blog. I was setting the structure of the blog up and had already installed Wordpress which was version 2.3 (recently released) at the time. And I started to add plugins to it. I had moved this blog from Blogspot [...]

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Have You Had Trouble with Adsense Plugins?

I don’t know about you but I have been having a terrible time trying to find an Adsense plugin to work on my blog. Or even to get Adsense to appear at all even if I put it in by hand. I wondered if something had happened to my Adsense account but everything seemed fine. And [...]

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How Well Are You Targeting Your Audience?

This is a good question and one I probably shy away from in case I’m not doing very well at it. When I think back to planning my blogs I set out a plan for what I wanted the blogs to be about and what they would look like. And then I decided who my target [...]

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The Best Way to Upgrade Wordpress

Have you upgraded to Wordpress 2.3 yet? A couple of weeks ago I found a message in my Wordpress admin panel saying my Wordpress installation was out of date. And I should upgrade to version 2.3 as soon as possible, due to it having a lot of bug fixs in it. Now that always sends a chill [...]

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