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Category: Blogging Tutorials

How to Add Video to a WordPress Blog Post the Easy Way

You’re new to this whole blogging thing. You want to put a cool video in your post like you see everywhere on the web, but you haven’t figured out how to do it. I got your back. Everything’s easy when you know how, right? So watch this video to see how it’s done the [...]

Secrets of How to Write a Post in WordPress - Video Tutorial

Are you missing something in WordPress? You can learn the basics and even learn a couple of secrets at the same time. They’re not really secret, of course, they’re features you may not yet be aware of. Here’s what’s in the video:

How to edit the post “slug”
How to insert hyperlinks
How to upload and insert pictures
How [...]

Should You Squidoo?

Should you… what?
Squidoo is the brainchild of the well-known marketer Seth Godin. Squidoo is a multi-user site where, in a very user-friendly structured way, you create web pages on any topic you like. The web pages you created are called lenses. You don’t need any technical knowledge to create a Squidoo lens.
Why Create a Squidoo [...]

Knowing Your Way Around the WordPress Write Screen

Guest Blogger Week continues at Remarkablogger with Joel Williams of Blog Tech Guy
With the launch of Wordpress 2.5 many things in the Wordpress admin dashboard have changed. However some things remain the same, and one of those is how each part of a Wordpress post affects what is displayed on your blog. For ease of [...]

What Rock Band Can Teach You about Business Blogging

Guest Blogger Week continues on Remarkablogger, with Naomi Duford of IttyBiz
Recently, I spent an incredible sum of money on the PlayStation game Rock Band. While this new addition to my living room has probably caused both my business and my blog to suffer — like Twitter, Rock Band shares many traits with crack — it [...]

How to Create a Feed Signature with Secret Content for Subscribers Only

A lot of people ask me how I created the feed signature that allows only subscribers to download my free ebook How to Start a Business Blog.
The answer is simple and… unglamorous: I use a WordPress plugin called Sig2feed and some HTML/CSS coding. Anybody can use the plugin. If you don’t know HTML or [...]

Who Says Thank You More, You or Your Commentors?

I was responding to a comment from my friend Phil Gerbyshak, telling him “you’re welcome”, when I realized that I really haven’t been saying those two words very much, lately. I’ve been thanking people myself, left and right. But I haven’t been saying “you’re welcome” as much.
Why does this matter? Who are you really writing [...]

Getting Blog Readers to Convert -
Say Hello to PAT

Welcome to My First SlideCast
This post contains a SlideCast. If you are viewing this in a feed reader and don’t see the SlideShare player immediately below, please visit the original post or SlideShare to view it. All you have to do is click on the play button, just like a video… except you can also [...]

How I Increased My RSS Subscribers to Nearly 900 in Less than 2 Weeks

In less than 2 weeks, I’ve managed to increase my blog’s subscriber count by nearly 200% to about 900 subscribers (198% to be exact, at the time of this writing). Many of you already know how, but I’ll say it anyway. Two words: Free Ebook.

I did this according to a plan, and I’m going to [...]

FeedBurner for WordPress: The Basics Nobody Told You About

There’s a lot of new stuff to learn and figure out when you’re new to blogging, and there’s some basic stuff out there that other people are taking for granted, but maybe you didn’t know about. Setting up FeedBurner for your blog might be one of those things. And it’s not that there’s no good [...]

How to be a Metablogging Wind-Up Toy

You may have heard the blogosphere described as an echo chamber. That’s a way to describe the effect I’m talking about. Metabloggers blog about blogging itself. About how to blog. About how to make money blogging. About how to bring traffic to your blog. The problem is, they’re not getting this to the people who really need it. Their audience seems to consist primarily of other metabloggers!

Build Blog Traffic with Technorati, Part 2

Tips and information on how to get Technorati tag links into your posts–especially if you have more than one blog on more than one platform.

Build Blog Traffic with Technorati, Part 1

Explains in plain English how to use Technorati to your advantage on your blog in order to increase traffic.

How to start a new blog

Insight into the process of starting a blog for the beginner.