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7 Comments April 10, 2012

Posts from Hell

In so many of my blogging workshops, I talk about hitting that “publish” button after writing a post. How it flies out there into the cloud and people start reading it. RSS subscribers immediately get it dropped into their reader or sent to their inbox. Google can pick up content only a couple hours or [...]

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My Presentation at BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 in Los Angeles

I had the honor of speaking at this years Blogworld and New Media Expo 2011 in Los Angeles. You can watch my presentation: Stop Losing Readers and Subscribers: A Walk Through a User-Friendly Blog

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My Presentation at Seattle WordPress Meetup

I had a great time presenting at the Seattle WordPress meetup, where I am also active as a co-organizer. Below you will find the keynote slideshow from it: Your WordPress Site as a Hub for Connections and Conversation. And below that is links to the plugins I mentioned as well. If you missed this event, [...]

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6 Comments March 26, 2011

How To Create a Custom RSS Email Signup Widget

We all want readers to sign up for our RSS feed. And since the majority of them opt in to sign up via email, how do we make that stand out like in this graphic? Well, once you have created an eye-catching graphic or had one created for you, this video shows you how simple [...]

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How Do I Change My RSS Feed to be Either a Full Post or a Summary?

When you have set up your RSS feed for your blog, and click to view it, often you will notice that your recent posts will be listed a full posts or summaries. There are pros and cons to both. The major one is that if you have a full post listed in the RSS feed, [...]

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2 Comments September 5, 2010

Using and setting up your RSS with Google Feedburner

A lot of themes already come with your feed working. If you click on this symbol , and don’t get an error, then you are okay. But if you need to burn your own feed, or would like more statistics and control over the feed, watch this video.