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How To Set Up And Optimise A Really Cool RSS Feed

So if you haven’t caught on yet there are these things called RSS feeds that your readers can use to keep up to date with your blog. The benefit of RSS readers is that your inbox doesn’t get overloaded with subscriptions. Many readers choose RSS over email. On this blog only 15% of subscriptions are by email the rest are RSS subscribers.
Here is a walkthrough for setting up a FeedBurner account right through to adding cool RSS buttons to your blog.
Set Up FeedBurner
FeedBurner is owned by google and will track your RSS …

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Make Your URLs SEO Friendly!

This is something that many wordpress users overlook and the sooner you get it right the better. Search engine results are influenced by the URL so make sure you have good ones!
Permalinks
I have seen so many wordpress accounts lately who are using the standard permalinks. Permalinks are the way your URL is set up when you publish a post. The standard permalink structure looks something like http://yourblog.com/?p=5. And I am sure you can understand that ?p=5 isn’t very search engine friendly (or people friendly for that matter).

To set up great …

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Use Twitter To Jump Start Your Traffic In 5 Easy Steps

A lot of people are asking the question how to get more traffic to your blog. And a lot of people are giving the same answers, “build up all traffic streams” “target keywords” “comment on blogs” etc. This works well for the established blogger but it’s a long and painful road for the new guy. Good thing the game is changing. There are now easier ways to compete with the big players.
The Shortcut
Normally traffic is built up by compounding returns. Each traffic source adds on the previous. Once you target enough keywords …

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5 Things You Should Know About Making The Digg Front Page

So a few weeks ago I wrote a few posts on Social Bookmarking 101 – Where To Start and Getting Popular on Social Bookmarking Sites 101. You may be interested in checking them out because it works. Last week I had a post go to the front page of Digg by following those tips. I didn’t use any pre-existing lists I just started from scratch so you can do it too.
Here are 5 points you may want to know before doing it yourself:
Hosting
The post was only on the front page for less …

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Using Keywords To Get Great Post Ideas

There are two ways to choose your next topic idea. If you are lucky you will already have a great idea and just need to type it out. If this is the case you should have a look at Google Keyword Tool to help find popular keywords related to your post then write the post with those keywords in mind.
On the other hand if you don’t have an idea for your next post you can use this technique:
Keyword Topic Generating!
Here is how you do it.
First of all you should have …

Blogs, SEO, Traffic »

How You Can Effectively Target Keywords (For Newbies)

Targeting keywords is a great idea unfortunately 90% of people who “target keywords” don’t really know what they’re doing and get sub-par results. Hopefully this will help clear it up so you can start benefiting from more search engine traffic and better adsense revenues.
5 Points To Target Keywords
Have the keyword in your title (the nearer to the start the better).
Include the keywords in your page headings (these have more weight to google than regular text).
Have the keywords in the Page description (once again feature near the start of the description).
And …