Building Links with Blog Comments

If you're building links by making comments on other blogs, perfect, it's absolutely one of the best ways to get backlinks to your site for free, however it's also one of the most misused strategies.   

I love reading the comments that I get on my blog, it's a highlight of my day, but it's also a pain in the "you know what" when I have to sift through comments that are made only to benefit the commenter, meaning they offer no value to the post, conversation or to my readers. [Read more...]

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How To Make a Favicon for Your Blog or Website

Last week I showed you how to easily create a comments Avatar for your blog, so this week I thought I'd expand on that by showing you how you can also create a Favicon for your blog or website. 

A Favicon is the little icon that displays in your blog or website's address bar.  If you look above in the address bar you can see that my blog has a light bulb as its Favicon. 

Just like creating a comments avatar, creating a Favicon for your blog or website is also easy, so let's get started.

Here are the steps… [Read more...]

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How To Easily Create a Comments Avatar

Did you know that you can easily create a comments avatar or Gravatar that will appear beside your name when you comment on blogs around the net? 

I've been putting this off because I thought it might be complicated to do.  Wrong!  It's super easy and I found out how easy it was by asking my good friend Revka over at Berries & Cream Blog Design

Revka gave me a simple and free way to do this myself and it took me less than a minute.  Now my picture shows up in all the comments I make around the web, including my own blog  ;-)

Here's how to do it… [Read more...]

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Blog Comments – Should You Turn Them off?

I just recently read an article by Chris Crum of WebProNews, titled "Can You Get More Links if You Turn Off Comments?"

This is an interesting question as I've considered turning off comments on some other blogs, but what's a blog without comments?  [Read more...]

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Is Your Wordpress Blog Slow to Load?

Lately I've noticed that my Homenotion Wordpress blog has been slow to load, actually taking forever would be more accurate.

At first I thought it was my computer, but as I checked the load time from other computers and had friends also check it out, it was in fact pretty slow.

But what really got my attention was an email I got from a very nice reader who politely told me, "Your blog is too slow, thought you'd want to know".  Yes, I was happy to know, but what could I do about it? [Read more...]

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