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How To Make Your Blog A Time Lasting Brand

Back in 2003 when I started my very first blog on a free hosted solution, things were simpler. In 2009 there is an entire industry based around the mighty blogosphere. Now, in order to succeed, you must keep track of social networking accounts, comments, SE rankings, analytics stats and more.

This makes the problem of establishing your blog as a time lasting brand even harder, so here are some tips on how you can do it in 2009. These are simple tips that will help make your blog a memorable brand.

We are going to cover how to build an authoritarian social presence, learning new writing skills, moderation techniques, identifying reader needs and requests, design concepts, commenting, building a elevator pitch and some nice general tips and tricks.

First Things First, The Elevator Pitch

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How To Preserve PageRank On A WordPress Blog

Everybody loves doing great in Google, and often you are in search of that magical green dust called Page Rank. In this post we will list some of the best plugins to preserve and sustain page rank and link juice inside a WordPress blog.

What is PageRank?

Well PR is a link analysis algorithm, named after Larry Page a co-founder from Google, that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents (called links).

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Save Time By Using WordPress And Joomla

Every time now and then I get a fast customer who wants the job done in so little time. In most cases I try and save time while I design using only free resources and plugins to get the job done. Here is a list of things you can do and save time while you design.

Using WordPress to save time

In about 90% of cases, I tend to design WordPress powered websites for my clients. As I do it it gets more and more faster, with no or almost none quality loss. Although the best way to design is to do it responsively and take your time with it, when you deal with a fast design I always find that installing a WordPress website and applying the best theme which you can later modify can save me days of work.

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