WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

Alex posted a great article the other day on the impact of blog neglect on traffic. I can certainly verify his statement because whenever I post less, my traffic goes down. Surprisingly though, My feed subscriber number keeps growing. I can only attribute this to the fact that most people don’t have time to read their feeds every day and it would take a bit to unsubscribe anyway.

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Link building only works if you write content quality for your blog or website. Oh yes, you could theoretically slap up a crappy black hat blog and pray that Google will never discover it. In reality, they most often will and all your hard work would have been done in vain.

What many black hatters do is go for the kill. They milk the site for what it’s worth and then move on to the next. To me, this is wasted energy, no matter what you say. I think it will be way smarter to roll back the sleeves and then get to work in an earnest fashion.

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Pingbacks and Trackbacks is one of the perhaps least understood concepts by new bloggers and one that generates the most questions. Why is it? I think it is mainly because everyone heard about the power it gives to the bloggers but not everyone understood how to use it correctly.

Add the abundance of the trackback SPAM to the mix and it creates a brew many choke on. In this post I’m not planning replicate the efforts of other people but instead share links to The Best Of The Best resources that should teach you EVERYTHING you need to know about using [tag-tec]Trackbacks[/tag-tec] and [tag-tec]Pingbacks[/tag-tec] and Protecting your own blog from the Trackback SPAM…

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