How Important Is The First Paragraph Of Your Blog?

August 4th, 2007

The first paragraph of your blog post should capture the readers attention, tell them what you’re going to tell them and use the keyword phrases in the first and last sentence. The first paragraph of your blog post is used in many ways including imports into facebook, and as snippets in archives and rss feed. It’s important to express the main theme of your post, use your keyword phrases and describe what you’re going to go into detail about.

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How Important Is Your Blog Post Title

July 25th, 2007

Your blog post title is probably one of the most important aspects of what you write. Your blog post title should have a lot of thought put into it before you publish.

Just as you can build a great looking blog, it’s nothing unless someone comes to read it. You need links.. you need traffic.. you need readers. You’re a blogger, it’s the stuff of blogging.. the life blood.. the readers.

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Feedburner Setup

June 3rd, 2007

feedburner rss

When you first install your wordpress blog, there are a lot of features or options that you MUST do before you enter you first post. I’ll go through those one by one in another post, but one of the primary things is to setup your Feedburner account. Feedburner is “the” feed provision service that you must use to truly harness the power of your work. All Wordpress blogs have built in feed creation software for providing your content to the masses, but Feedburner takes it a step farther and allows for many features. I’ll cover that in another post. The thing about setting up feed burner, is that you must have at least one post before it recognizes the feed because without the post, there is no feed. Make sense?

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