You have a well-established blog with more than a hundred articles. Your recent publications are always hyped. But what happens with them after a few months pass and they become part of your archives? Are your readers able to find them?

This issue has been critical for many sites that publish reviews or articles that don’t necessarily have a crucial time span. The two fundamental solutions are to either make your archives attractive (which in itself are a challenging task) or draw attention to the content in your archives that is related to the newest articles.  This is where the concepts of related posts becomes important. Thankfully there are several plugins for WordPress that can help you interlink articles in your blog (which as an added benefit is good search engine optimization as well).

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Last Thursday Google team has announced release of the “Living Stories” to WordPress community as open source code. It contains several WordPress  plugins and a custom theme required to run properly. Good news is that code is portable to other themes and if you are willing to dig into code – instructions provided.

I think concept is extremely intriguing as it opens possibilities for bloggers to become the NICHE leader by providing most current updates on topic. Obviously I haven’t used this one yet and from everything I have read on it so far – you might be limited to stories within the Living Stories project, I would appreciate correction if I’m wrong here.

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Love Blogging but need a vacation? Perhaps your blog hasn’t become the *HOTTEST* spot on the net with hundreds of bloggers begging to allow them submit content to it? Or perhaps you are just suffering from brain freeze and need a bit of time to re-evaluate your options all the while making sure you don’t lose your readers?

• What Do You Do?

• How Do You Find Quality Content For Your Blog?

Obviously you can use an option provided to you by WordPress to schedule a bunch of posts for the future publishing, you can get some PLR content and re-write it, you can hire someone to create content for you or…

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Pinging or doing notification to Syndication Services is important part of promoting blogs and spreading the word about new content. It is also a source of traffic to some extent and one of the most controversial issues in blogosphere!

I have seen hundreds of posts including from very known bloggers and marketers that share their opinion on Blog Ping and size of the list of RPC services your blog should have. Interesting thing – these opinions are generally radically different, in fact I have seen one very known blogger/marketer sharing a ping list that required quite a bit of scrolling just to see it!

There Is a HUGE Problem With It!

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Love blogging but perhaps feeling like your writing could use some improvement? I feel you, as I’m swimming in the same lake! Would you like to have a grammar / spelling / proofreading on autopilot for your WordPress blog?

Excellent!

Because I know you just answered “Yes” Ok, well maybe you didn’t – I still would LOVE TO SHARE WordPress  plugin I have discovered that acts as my private English Tutor! “After the Deadline” checks your writing and attempts to be smarter than you, when it comes to grammar, in my case it succeeds!

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