The Best Free WordPress Themes of 2010

People make up their mind about a website in less than 2 seconds, so you need to grab your visitors’ attention fast.  Choosing the right theme for your WordPress blog is an essential process and it requires careful consideration.  If you get the theme right, you can customize your blog to suit your niche and give the professional image you need. As soon as you’ve completed your free website builder program,
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10 Secrets of Linkbaiting and Why Your Blog Depends on It

Linkbaiting is still one of the most important techniques used in the world of SEO (search engine optimization) and is an extremely effective method of generating blog traffic.  It can literally mean the difference between blog success and failure.  That’s why you need to understand the process and how to use it.  Link baiting is just like fishing. You throw out your bait (which is your content) and hope people bite. 
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How to Translate Your WordPress Blog and Explode Traffic Levels Overnight

Creating a global audience can dramatically enhance your blog traffic and spread the word about your content like a viral campaign.  Yet in order to go global, your blog needs to be translated into multiple languages.  The problem is that professional translation services are expensive and can be very slow.  Machines such as Google Translator or Language Weaver often misunderstand, mix things up and generally make content pretty difficult to
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5 Secrets to Using Linkedin to Boost Quality Blog Traffic

Professional bloggers will tell you that blog success depends on much more than driving high numbers of visitors to your site.  In fact, it’s even more important to generate quality traffic, people who are actually interested in your content and are more likely to buy from you, click on your ads or sign up for your service.  Plus they’re more likely to subscribe, comment and keep coming back to see
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WordPress and Teachers: How To Set Up a Website For My Class

The internet is an invaluable educational tool and teachers simply cannot afford to ignore it.  By allowing kids to connect with other students around the globe, this develops their understanding of different cultures, fosters an enquiring mind and engages and motivates them in their studies.  It gives kids a global audience for the work, developing a passion for writing and an authentic motivation for completing their assignments to the best
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How to Engage and Grow Your WordPress Blog Readership

Did you know that the average amount of time people spend on any website is 10 seconds?  People will quickly leave your site if you don’t grab their attention and engage them immediately.  Then there’s the issue of getting them to come back again and recommend you to their friends. People lead busy and stressful lives, so you need to give them something that adds value to them personally. If you
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Is Your WordPress Blog Exposed to Attack? 10 Ways to Secure Your Blog

According to security experts there are two types of website on the internet – those that have already been the victim of hackers and those that will one day be hacked.  Everyone from multi-billion dollar corporations to individual bloggers are being attacked by hackers, with sensitive data being stolen, passwords being changed and hours of work disappearing overnight.  Hackers may also simply cause a nuisance on your site, often inserting
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5 Money Making Adsense WordPress Themes

Because of its simplicity and user-friendliness, Wordpress has become one of the most used free website builder in the web since its release in 2003. Recently, a lot of Wordpress-powered site owners have discovered that when complemented with Adsense, their site becomes a powerful money generating source of steady income. In response to the recent economic challenge and recession, people are looking for ways to earn money and the idea of
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Are You Losing Visitors with Broken Links? How to Fix Them

There are many times that a website builder or owner would encounter broken links and 404 (page cannot be found errors), resulting in the loss of the website’s hard-earned and valued traffic. This article will talk about how that can be easily resolved. As a website builder, I know for a fact that one of the most common headaches that a lot of website builders have to deal with are broken
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