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Wordpress 2.5 is Here…

Major Update Wordpress 2.5 has just been released for the Wordpress.org blogging platform. And it looks to be a major upgrade to version 2.3.3 with lots of new features. You can read about them here. If you would like to watch a 4 minute screencast showing you more then here’s the link. I really like the sound [...]

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Happy 1st Blogging Birthday

It is my first blogging birthday, I have been properly blogging now for a year on this blog in one shape or form. Although it’s not Build a Blog’s birthday because this blog didn’t start until July last year. My first serious blog was on the Blogger platform and was called Create Blogs, I just [...]

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Promoting Your Blog with Blog Directories, Should You Do It or Not!

This is the first in a series of follow on articles from this one: How I plan to get traffic to my blog. Promoting your blog with blog directories is one of those techniques that can cause a bit of controversy, should I do it or not? It is a tedious job and can take a long, [...]

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How I Plan to get Traffic to my Blog

After writing the 3 month case study review for The Photographer Blog when I said my aim for the blog over the next 3 months was to grow it’s traffic, I thought I would look at how I am going to try and do that. And this really leads on (part 2) from the post [...]

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What Do You Think of Stumbling?

I asked the other day in an article if anyone was using social networking sites. Well I have started to use them, in particular StumbleUpon, and here’s what I think about it: StumbleUpon StumbleUpon is a social bookmarking site similar to del.icio.us and lets you stumble your favorite content whether it is blog posts, websites, video’s, photos, [...]

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