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Get Your Blog Hosted for Free

March 10, 2010

I always encourage bloggers that want to take themselves seriously to get their own hosting, and manage their own site. The most common pushback I get is the price of hosting. You can get your blog hosted for free. It is pretty easy.

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Cache Your Wordpress Blog to Make it Faster

March 8, 2010
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What’s the most common problem that growing blogs always run into? Their Wordpress site needs to be cached in order to handle the growing influx of traffic.

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How to Make Your Own Wordpress [Shortcode]

March 5, 2010
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Making your own custom Wordpress shortcode is actually very easy to do. All you need to do is add a little bit of code to your site to generate a new Wordpress shortcode.

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Adding Social Networking Buttons to Your Blog or Website

March 2, 2010
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If you are sick of hearing about social networking, join the club.  However, there is real value in the traffic that it can generate for your site.  Does that mean you need to add social networking buttons to your blog or website?
Probably.
But don’t go crazy.
You should care about the traffic that can be generated by [...]

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Got Speed? The Problem with Slow Loading Blogs

January 5, 2010
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If you are not the tech savvy type, I’d be willing to bet your site loads slower than it should. Most amateur bloggers (and some professional ones) are not very good developers. Here’s where I would normally make the case for hiring a firm like BlogCraving to handle these things for you, but this time I will spare you.

Let’s just jump right to the point and find out if your site is a load hog.

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How To: License photos for your gossip blog

January 3, 2010
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Many of my clients are celebrity gossip and entertainment bloggers.  The gossip niche has been our bread and butter for many years now.  We stumbled across the category by accident really.  It turns out that in 2006, there were a lot of high traffic gossip sites that needed real technical management in order to keep [...]

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Top 5 Tips for Hiring Help

December 31, 2009
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When building your online business (or any business really), you’ll quickly realize that you can’t do it all yourself. You are simply going to have to hire some help. It does not mean you have to go out and start hiring full time employees. However, you’ll probably need a few contract or project guru’s to help you along the way.

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How To Convert PSD to Wordpress Template

July 19, 2009

Have you ever tried to look for step by step instructions or a quick tutorial on how to convert a PSD file into a fully functioning Wordpress theme or template?
Here is the definitive solution!  Learn to convert a PSD file on your own in to a fully functioning Wordpress theme.

Our BlogCraving eBook will provide you [...]

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