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How To Get More Traffic To Your Blog

Today I’m continuing with answers to the questions presented to me by my customers and readers. And question we will work with today is equally important to the blogs of every size because it deals with most important aspect that determines blog success – Targeted Traffic!

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In the image above you can actually see the less common variant of problem from a blogger who already gets decent amount of visitors and simply need to expand and continue with the growth. Overcoming traffic plateau is EXTREMELY important as each and everyone of us will have to deal with it, at one point or another…

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How To Make WordPress Files Writable

Long overdue but better late then never I begin a mini-series where I will answer questions that my readers submitted via Survey I did last month. I apologize for delay and promise to make it worth for you.

Question 1:  “How do I change the wp-config to writable so I can give myself ALTER rights”

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This is actually quite common problem if your host has one of the “unfriendly” setups and it will also apply to people who have issues editing the Theme Files directly from WordPress Admin interface.

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Best Of WordPress Guide Spotter 2008

best-of-2008Even though we are couple days into 2009 I have decided to take the time and present you with the Best Posts of 2008 on my blog WordPress Web 2.0 Guide Spotter. Idea here is to help new readers find out what information that I have shared in last year became most read, most commented on or most accessed through RSS readers.

And perhaps it will help you rediscover some of the posts you have missed but either way it might provides an interesting insight on what is considered by my readers most engaging content in 2008.

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WordPress Guide – Installing Plugins And Themes

A feedback from one of my customers have prompted this article in WordPress Guide Series – Installing Plugins and Themes. The more we work with technology and get accustomed to the way thing work we stop realizing that many people come to WordPress without the knowledge we take for granted!

Installing Plugins and New Themes on your WordPress blog is one of the tasks that is considered the very basic and yet – concept is absolutely alien to many. This post will close the gap and cover in details everything you need to know about the process and ensure that you will not be left behind… so dig in!

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WordPress Guide – Enhancing Image System

In this part of my WordPress Guide I want to build on interest generated by previous posts and provide a solution to what many of my readers consider to be one of the biggest hustles in WordPress – Image Management.

While it might not be as complete answer as I would like it to be but short of doing a core re-write this is best I could possibly find. In this post I will talk about how to enhance your WordPress Image Management system to make it more user friendly and hopefully make you more productive…

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WordPress Guide – Dissection Of File Structure

First in a series of WordPress Guide posts this one is dedicated to an overview of what it is we work with on daily bases. How is our system built and most importantly what you, as WordPress blogger, need to know about it to perform maintenance, such as backup, upgrade, etc.

I have wrote on several occasions that we need to know how our blog works in order to be most efficient bloggers but haven’t done enough to help you. Dissection of File Structure will be a direct step toward creating a new bread of WordPress Guides – visual and with descriptions so you could easily bookmark it and reference…

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