Build a Blog

What are my two most important plugins?

My main aim for The Photographer Blog is cultivating and fostering a community where photographers can talk about their love. And I aim to do that by attracting readers and building the RSS subscribers to the blog. Therefore the two most important plugins to to let me do this are Google Analytics and Feedburner Feedsmith. Google [...]

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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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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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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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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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The Secrets of Keywords

This is the fourth part of a case study series following how to set up a blog, if you would like to read more then take a look at the case study category. What is a keyword? Keywords are the building blocks for search engines. Search engines rank sites partly on the keywords they contain, and then [...]

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Top 5 Market Research Tools

Market Research After choosing photography as my blog topic for the blog case study, the next step is to do some market research on the niche. That is easier said than done due to all the different techniques and services that are available for market research. Market research is essential for me to learn about my [...]

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How To Choose A Blog Topic

This is the first of a series of articles following the process I am using to start a new blog, and to try and build it up into a successful blog. If you would like to follow this process then you may like to subscribe to my RSS feed. Do you find it difficult to choose [...]

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