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Add a Google+ Profile Button to Your Blog

kjackson_ott — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:03:50 +0000

Google+ is slowly gaining momentum. With the addition of business profiles this week, Google+ is attracting even more followers, if for no other reason than their need to gain more Web exposure. But, for a Google+ profile to be relevant , people must be able to find it. If you blog, adding a link to [...]

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Add Tags and Links to Blog Photos

kjackson_ott — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 11:36:11 +0000

Photos add interest to any blog. Most people are attracted to visual images. However, while a picture is worth 1,000 words, it does not always tell the entire story. ThingLink allows bloggers to add links and tags to any photo, which can help convey a more comprehensive view of what the photo is meant to [...]

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Add Tags and Links to Blog Photos

Create Custom WordPress Themes without HTML or CSS Skills

kjackson_ott — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:52:38 +0000

Bloggers and website designers who use WordPress often spend more time trying to find the perfect theme than they do creating content for their sites. There are more than 1,000 free themes available for WordPress and countless paid themes, making the quest for the perfect theme a long one. If no pre-made theme suits your [...]

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Create Custom WordPress Themes without HTML or CSS Skills

Sync Your Blog with Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn

kjackson_ott — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:24:41 +0000

Bloggers often use Twitter to communicate with readers and announce new articles. Twitter’s 200 million users enjoy the brevity of the 140-character tweet limit—communication occurs quickly, and they can decide which links they want to click by hashtags and headlines. Plus, for those who do no relish the brevity, software, like iPad’s Flipboard, can display [...]

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Sync Your Blog with Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn

Use Yahoo Clues to Discover Search Query Demographics

kjackson_ott — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:58:47 +0000

Most bloggers must stay aware of trending topics, especially with their target reader market. Twitter is a good place to do this, but Yahoo Search Clues offers a different way of looking at topic trends. Yahoo Clues shares market demographics about virtually any search query. One of the most popular queries this week was Harry [...]

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Use Yahoo Clues to Discover Search Query Demographics

Find, Resize and Position Photos for Your Blog

kjackson_ott — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:36:31 +0000

One of the on-going challenges for most bloggers is finding meaningful photos with the proper reuse rights. There are many databases available to search for photos, but searching these databases is time consuming. Besides, when the right photo is found, we must still resize it and provide the proper credit to the photographer. Wylio.com offers [...]

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Find, Resize and Position Photos for Your Blog

5 WordPress Plugins for Adding Slideshows and Featured Content to Your Blog

nmcgrory_ott — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:34:22 +0000

Using featured content slideshows with your WordPress blog is a great way to add visual appeal. It also gives your readers a convenient way to read specific posts, without having to browse through several pages. Sites like Yahoo and AOL even use featured content slideshows on their homepages, to hype certain articles. Here are 5 [...]

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5 WordPress Plugins for Adding Slideshows and Featured Content to Your Blog

Add a Bing Map to a Blog Post in Windows Live Writer

jgarger — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:50:51 +0000

The latest version of Windows Live Writer adds even more features to make posting to a blog that much easier. One feature of the application is the ability to add, with just the click of a button, a Microsoft Bing Map to a blog post. Learn how to add a Bing Map to your blog [...]

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Add a Bing Map to a Blog Post in Windows Live Writer

Edit the Spell Check Settings in Windows Live Writer

jgarger — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:35:59 +0000

Although it doesn’t contain all of the features of a full-fledged word processor, Windows Live Writer has most of the features bloggers are looking for to compose, edit, and publish posts on their personal or commercial blogs. One feature necessary to publish quality blog posts is the spell checker. Learn how to edit the spell [...]

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Edit the Spell Check Settings in Windows Live Writer

Create a Disclosure Policy for Your Blog the Easy Way

kjackson_ott — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:53:46 +0000

If your blog does not already have a disclosure policy, it is probably because all the legalese involved makes you want to scream in utter frustration. The disclosure policy is an important part of any Web site, as it tells who writes the material, how the blog makes money, who to contact with questions and [...]

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Create a Disclosure Policy for Your Blog the Easy Way

Keep a Personal Blog by Email with OhLife.com

kjackson_ott — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:33:41 +0000

Blogging is a time-consuming job (or past time, for some). Many people who have not joined the blogosphere are deterred by the sheer amount of work involved. Plus, blogging requires great consistency—daily posts, in most cases. On busy days, it is easy to forget the task. OhLife.com is a new kind of blog service designed [...]

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Keep a Personal Blog by Email with OhLife.com

Listen to Blogs and other RSS Feeds with BlogRadio

kjackson_ott — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:51:02 +0000

Subscribing to blogs is a great way to keep track of the topics that are important to us, but after awhile, we seem to accumulate more RSS feeds than we can possibly read consistently. Instead of deleting unread posts, and possibly missing important information, a service called BlogRadio can read an entire blog’s posts with [...]

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Listen to Blogs and other RSS Feeds with BlogRadio

Find Plagiarizers of Your Content the Easy Way

kjackson_ott — Sun, 02 May 2010 11:56:10 +0000

Charles Colton once wrote that “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” However, when you write for a living, imitation means lost revenue. Those of us who write for the Web must stay constantly vigilant against those who steal our unique content and use it as their own for profit. It can be a time-sucking [...]

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Find Plagiarizers of Your Content the Easy Way

Top 10 Windows Live Writer Plug-ins

kjackson_ott — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:09:56 +0000

Windows Live Writer is a nice blogging tool before any added extras, but there are a few plug-ins available to make the Live Writer experience even better. Here are some of our favorites: 1. Flickr4Writer Flickr4Writer allows you to search the Flickr archives without leaving Live Writer, then it inserts the link and proper credit [...]

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Top 10 Windows Live Writer Plug-ins

Use Windows Live Writer from a USB Drive

kjackson_ott — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:30:35 +0000

You can blog from absolutely any computer with this trick—which makes this perfect for bloggers on-the-go. First, download Windows Live Writer Portable and extract the file onto your USB drive. Click Start then Computer and double-click your USB drive on the list of available drives. Navigate to the folder called WindowsLiveWriterPortable (you may have extracted [...]

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Use Windows Live Writer from a USB Drive