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Hot Links – Episode 10!

This week in Hot Links: This week I am looking at how easy it is to find good and informative articles through Blog Carnivals. Are they good places to find blogs to read and comment to, and to find fellow bloggers? Here are three articles that I found on blog carnivals: The Blog Me Cash carnival had this [...]

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Hot Links 9!

This week in Hot Links: Here is a fun way to see what level your blog is aiming for with readers, or in other words what is the reading level of your blog: The Blog Readability Test This is a great post from Blogging Tips, and especially good if you are just starting a blog like I [...]

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Hot Links – Episode 8!

This week in hot links: Decision time is upon us. It’s the final chance to join Blog Mastermind, it’s doors close today! Here are the free resources that Yaro has given out again, don’t miss out! Video Case study – How to get more traffic to your blog Sample Lesson – Marketing through conversations I’ve been having a few [...]

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Hot Links – Episode 7

This week in Hot Links: I have been looking at the top commentator plugin this week. It displays the top commentators on the blog and links to them in the list. Which in turn encourages the bloggers to comment on your blog in the hope they will get a link. I only hope is that they [...]

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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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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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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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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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Hot Links – Episode 2!

Time for this weeks hot links. This week I have been working hard on the research for my photography blog. It’s amazing how I can have a specific question I want an answer to, and I am able to find a blog post that deals with it. I have been thinking about blog design and [...]

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Hot Links – Episode 1!

New Feature I am starting a new feature called Hot Links for Build a Blog. It will be posted on a weekly basis and include the best information I have found for the week. I am doing this so that the useful links and information that I share will be easier to find because they [...]

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