MIchael Martine of Remarkablogger fame has published an excellent list on how *not* to launch a new blog. I have to admit it made me wince - even though countless ebooks and websites have raised these points before, I am guilty of every one of them, at some stage. More than once, too - […]

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This post has been written and published with Microsoft’s Live Writer application, which can be downloaded for free right here:
http://get.live.com/writer/overview
It seems to be just as easy to use as the embedded blog publishing platform provided with Word 2007, and if you can believe some of the reports online, it also works seamlessly with blogger-hosted blogs […]

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Nine days ago I published a short cryptic post that had a few people at work scratching their heads. Why I mention this is that it was wholly composed in Microsoft Word 2007, and published direct to the Stratify web site. Since then every post I’ve written has been published the same way.
How It Works

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If you’re reading this, it was published using Microsoft’s new “Blog Post” function inside Word 2007.

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Scottish Internet marketer David Bain has just released his new ebook, The Four Phases of Internet Marketing. It’s a free download (although you have to register on his website to get it), and its release coincides with David’s announcement of the 26 Week Internet Marketing Plan. No details on this yet, although as I write […]

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A few weeks ago my tool bar page rank dropped to zero (from four). This happened without warning - OK on Friday, zero on Monday, and after some research I’ve just made some changes to this website and requested a review from Google. I’ll let you know how it goes.
First up, my main source of […]

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A few months ago I moved this website from a static design (HTML and Dreamweaver) to a Wordpress-driven blog. Like so many sites shooting for position in the hyper-competitive SEO space, my static site was sitting with only a few views a day, and served only as a reference point for clients and prospects who […]

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On Friday, this site had a Google toolbar pagerank (TBPR) of 4. Today, It’s zero.
Other than (almost) daily posts, there are four changes that may have caused this:

A myriad minor changes to the blog template. I fiddle with this a few times a week, so maybe something was done that caused a problem.
The addition of […]

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Ever visited a blog and on the home, or index, page, seen how the posts there show a few lines then a ‘Read More’ link? In WordPress that’s the effect of using the ‘more’ tag, and there’s two reasons why you should use it too.

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By default, Wordpress inserts the ‘nofollow’ directive to all author and comment links to make comment spamming unattractive. While this seems like a good thing, the Akismet plugin (included by default with all new Wordpress installs) seems to do a pretty good job of stopping comment spam in the first place.

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