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Installing a Premium Blog Theme

!UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF POST! The new design for the case study blog has gone live and in this post I’m going to look at the 3 stages I took to do it. And here’s the before screenshot of the blog. choosing the theme installing the theme setting up the theme 1. Choosing the Theme With the amount of Wordpress themes [...]

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My 30 day challenge results

My 30 Day Challenge When I first talked about setting myself a 30 day challenge I said that I would report back with the results. So here they are… This is all part of my ongoing process of building and growing the case study blog. Which is becoming more and more interesting, and it is really [...]

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See How Easily You Can Improve Your Blog

As I said in my last post I am making improvements to my case study blog, well actually completely changing it. It’s come to the stage where I can just carry on blogging as usual on the case study blog, or I can really show what I have learned about my journey with digital photography [...]

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Planning my next move

So as I talked about in my last post I am going to be making some changes to my blogs. But first of all I have to write out some type of plan for what I am going to do, and how and when I am going to be doing it. If I’ve found anything [...]

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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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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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The Photographer Blog Launch!

I am officially launching the case study blog, The Photographer Blog. I have been writing to it for a couple of months and now I have decided it’s time to tell everybody about it. I have been documenting it’s progress from the planning stage onwards on this blog in the case study category, and will continue [...]

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Have You Made These Mistakes When Starting a Blog?

I have started a new blog recently which I have been doing a case study on, following its creation and statistics - The Photographer Blog, and I didn’t want to make the same mistakes I made when I started this blog. Which on the whole I didn’t, but I did come across a new set of [...]

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Top 5 Ways to Increase RSS Subscriptions

I have said before that the main aim for the case study blog – The Photographer Blog is to attract readers and then try and convert them into RSS subscribers. Here are 5 ways that I have used to make it easy for readers to become subscribers: 1. Large RSS button/icon 2. Place the button above the [...]

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