June 15, 2010

Free Blog Polls

Have you ever wanted to add a poll to your blog, but weren’t sure where to start?  There are quite a few blog poll resources that you can use to easily add polls to your site for free!  Here are a few favorites: BlogPolls.com BlogPoll.com FreeBlogPoll.com WordPress Plugins: Poll Daddy WP Polls Polls are a [...]

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June 14, 2010

Enable Threaded Comments Without a Plugin

WordPress users are always wanting to add threaded comments to their posts, and for good reason.  This allows users to interact and respond to each other easily.  For a while, a plugin was needed to add this feature to a wordpress blog, but not any longer.  You can easily add this feature to your WordPress [...]

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June 9, 2010

How to Monetize Your Blog With Lijit

Lijit: Custom Search, Stats and Advertising for Bloggers Besides having a great name like Lijit (yes, we receive MC Hammer jokes all the time) we also pride ourselves on providing value to bloggers and publishers with our free custom search, statistics and advertising. What IS Lijit? Custom Search: The Lijit site search indexes all of [...]

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June 8, 2010

Etiquette for Blog Carnivals and Link-Ups

There are many memes, link-ups and carnivals to take advantage of in bloggyland. These link-ups can be a great way to have fun, make friends and increase traffic. But for new participants they can be confusing and intimidating. The rules aren’t always spelled out; and yet by not following them you may offend your fellow [...]

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June 4, 2010

How to Create a Blog Button

Update – if you were attempting to make your own blog button, the HTML below has been updated & you should have no issues creating to your heart’s content! Creating your own “button” can be an important aspect to branding and promoting your blog. A “button” is a hyperlinked image or logo that when clicked [...]

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June 1, 2010

Use Your Meta Description Box

If you are on WordPress, you have probably seen the meta description box on your post pages. If you don’t see this box under your posts, you can install the All-in-One SEO plugin to get it. Google still uses the meta description when crawling the web. In addition to improving your SEO, it also helps [...]

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May 29, 2010

4 Simple Ways To Get More Facebook Fans

We’ve already talked about How to Successfully Grow Your Facebook Fan Page and How to Add Facebook Page Tabs, here are four quick and easy ways to get more Facebook Fans (or “Likes” — just doesn’t sound quite as cool as “Fans” though, does it?!): 1. Remind Your Readers Often of the Value of Becoming [...]

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May 26, 2010

Extend your Brand with a Wisestamp Signature

If you’d like to extend your blog and your brand into your email, consider adding a Wisestamp signature to your emails. Here is another reason to be using Firefox as your internet browser! Open Firefox and add go to the Wisestamp Signature add-on page. Once you add it to your page, you’ll see a little [...]

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May 24, 2010

Twitter Party

It’s been four long months since our last official Twitter Party. Since then you all have been rockin’ the hashtag with amazing ideas, tips, suggestions, motivation and encouragement. The next Savvy Blogging Twitter party begins at 9 pm EST on May 25, 2010. We will be tweeting for two hours, giving out a few prizes, [...]

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May 21, 2010

How to Add a Tab on Facebook Fan Page

Now that you know why you need a Facebook Page & how to get more fans, what else can you do with your Facebook Page? You can customize your page with tabs to make the user experience more fun. If you are a food blogger, you may want to add a tab dedicated to recipes, [...]

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