Blogs are journals made of dated entries and published on the web. Their name derives from the term "web log."
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SEO Tips and Tricks for web developers [duplicate]
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What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?
I know most of the Users of Stackoverflow would have knowledge about Search Engine ...
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What are some good feeds/blogs/twitter accounts to follow if I want to learn more about web development?
Who are some of the big names out there (besides Jeff Atwood/@codinghorror, of course) that I should be following as a resource if I want to stay on top of what's new as well commentary on what ...
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What do Trackbacks and Pingbacks do?
My blog (running on dasBlog) supports pingbacks and trackbacks. What exactly are they, and do they provide any benefit to my blog (e.g. SEO, etc.)?
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SEO Implications of blog on site versus offsite?
I recently added a blog to one of our company's websites, and was confident that this increase in content on the site would have only positive SEO results. My boss, however, feels that we should have ...
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When is it time to move on from WordPress?
My company's blog it closing in on 30,000 posts and get around 1,000,000 visits a month. Things seem slow even though we have a good server.
At what point to you move on from WordPress or does it not ...
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Where do blogs get their pictures?
I see a lot of blogs that are full of picture galleries, of celebrities for example, and I wonder how they get all these pictures.
Do most blogs just take pictures from Google images? or is there ...
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Company blog, host internally or not?
If I have a website for a company selling product(s). Is there any difference in terms of rewards/penalties from having a company blog hosted interally (for example mycompany.com/blog) or going ...
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What are the good blog/rss feeds about SEO?
What are good blogs or RSS feeds about Search Engine Optimization ?
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What can we do to promote meaningful comments on our blog?
I am not so much worried about the inevitable spammers, but I would like to see more comments from people with something worthwhile to say. How can we entice them to talk?
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Disqus-like comment server
I'm looking at setting up a blog, and I think I want to go the static website compiler route, rather than the perhaps more conventional Wordpress route. I'm looking at using blogofile, but could use ...
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SEO Implications of creating Niche Product Blogs vs Main Company Blog with Categories.
Our company has a dilemma that I am hoping the users of Pro WebMasters can help us with.
Right now as it stands we create a seperate website for each product that we sell.
We also have our corporate ...
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Blog commenting for SEO, Good Or Bad?
Many people suggest and do follow the strategy of commenting on related niche blogs with links to their own sites. Is this legitimate and a good way for SEO? Or it has some harmful side as well?
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Is there a Content Management System that allows multiple & independent blogs to be running on one domain?
I am a Wordpress fan, and I'm now building a new site and I'm not sure which CMS can achieve what I'm trying to do.
I am building a food blog network for a bunch of cities in the US, and I want to ...
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Google is not indexing my Tumblr blog sufficiently
I have a 35-day-old blog on tumblr. I submitted it to Google using "Add your URL to Google" page about a month ago. However, when I search Google for the content of my blog using the following query, ...
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Strange incoming links appearing on site statistics
Last year, I started a small blog on wordpress.com. Most of my blog posts are about computational statistics.
When I look at the site stats, I've noticed a number of strange incoming links. Usually, ...
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As an affiliate, how do you know if a sale is made?
I want to start doing affiliate marketing on a blog.
Now I have someone who wants to advertise who has contacted me.
How do I know if he has made a sale to a user who came through my website?
Is ...
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What is the best way to ensure individual blog posts are shown as top results in Google from a blog?
I like to show full posts on my index pages, so they are convenient for visitors to read and they don't have to click "read more" links to read the full post.
However, with this setup Google often ...
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What is the best way to promote a programming blog? [closed]
(The guys from 'Programmers' referred me here...)
How do you promote your programming blog?
I recently started http://blackforestcoder.blogspot.com/ to record my progress working with new ...
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Is it a bad idea to promote your site through relevant blog's by commenting?
I've searched the net and wasn't able to find a solid answer to this. Is it poor practice to seek out blogs that are related to your site, and post comments relevant to the particular blog post, in ...
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How can I get bloggers to use my widget?
I have developed a widget that shows a story of a hike or an outdoor outing on a google map. Here is an example:
...
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Should I use mixed content on my blog?
I have a blog. (just started) I am having a confusion whether I should keep the blog focused on only one subject (for instance, technology) or not?
If I post different posts on various topics (with ...
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What URL should I use for my blog archives?
I'm starting a new blog and I have the ability to publish my archives (old post urls that will receive most of my search traffic) anywhere I choose without any repercussions. I've been taking some ...
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My domain PageRank shows as unavailable, why is that?
My domain, http://www.anovaordemmundial.com , has been snatched by some opportunist when I failed to renew the domain. I know, it's all my fault :/ . After I have being ripped off and bought my domain ...
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How To Move From WordPress To GitHub Pages?
I'm considering moving my blog, Dream In Tech, which is WordPress CMS running on my Rackspace Cloud Server, to GitHub Pages because I'm starting to have performance issues, but how to move the posts, ...
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Images in blog posts
I see a lot of blogs (coding horror for example) that seem to feature random pictures in the entries.
Would I be correct in saying they probably didn't seek permission to use those images? What are ...
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The Necessity of a Disclaimer
I am a blogger. I write science articles. I study science and write articles in my blog in simple words for the general public to understand. Does this require a disclaimer as I do not want to see ...
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Which Bliki (Blog+Wiki) solution can you recommend? [duplicate]
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Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use?
I'm searching for a good Bliki solution, meaning a combination of blog and wiki that I can install on my own web ...
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pingback / trackback support for a photo sharing website?
Is there a photo sharing service, such as flickr or picasa, that will collect the urls of the locations where the photo has been posted on other blogs (or mentioned in tweets, etc?)
This could be ...
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Syndicated blog content and search engines: helpful or harmful?
Against my advice, we've started buying blog content from a syndicator. The content is not unique, and searching for quoted phrases shows this content in use on a few dozen other blogs. My initial ...
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Blogging platform for private/family blog? [duplicate]
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Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use?
I am trying to setup a blog to be used for our family. This blog will not be open to the public and family members ...
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How to obtain a page's GUID in Composite C1 CMS?
Question is pretty simple, I think.
How can I find out what the page GUID for a certain page in my Composite C1 website is?
I need it for RSS reading from a Blog within the CMS.
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Responsive website VS mobile website
I am creating a new blog. Nowadays, especially for a blog, it's important that the websites are accessible for all devices.
Now I have to make a choice on what to do. I have seen 2 options.
Option 1 ...
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Recommendations for a hosted blog with a plugin that allows syntax highlighting.
I want to keep a blog with useful code snippets for myself. I don't want to setup some website with blogging software or something similar.
All I want is register with a blog site and be able to use ...
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portfolio blog hosting
We currently have a photo storage website. A user can store his photos on our site. We want to give a facility to each user to create his photo portfolio and customize its look and feel, and contents ...
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Looking for quick and simple blogging solution [duplicate]
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Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use?
I'm looking for a really quick "plug in and play" style blogging software for php. It's to be used on a website that ...
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Adding my blog to my website
Hi
I've got a blogspot blog. I want to display my posts in my HTML-Based website. What should I do? I've already tried adding it as RSS but failed. I want everything to look natural. I don't want my ...
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Blog/CMS software with editing style like Stack Exchange [duplicate]
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Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use?
Are there any pieces of content creation software for making a blog that support an editing style like Stack Exchange ...
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Issues with web hosting at home
I want to host a small personal website at home. One basic problem I am hitting is, From inside home network, I cannot access my domain name. I have to use the local ip (something like 192.168.1.4) to ...
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Dead-simple PHP/MySQL blogging tool?
I need a really simple solution to build a one-person blog on a shared host: When the user wants to create/edit a blog entry, he calls a PHP script on the server which will...
1. save the raw article ...
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A frequently updated mixed bag blog OR several seldom updated niche sites?
I am a member of a website where I have about a hundred articles (and I'm always writing more.)
Aside from temporary problems I would deal with when removing content from the and putting it on my own ...
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Is Movable Type among the most secure PHP blogs? How secure are the various PHP blog applications?
Basically I'm trying to find a blog for a website, and security is the highest priority in our case. We don't need any features that I would imagine are special. Wordpress was our first idea, but its ...
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Subdomain versus new domain
Im adding a blog to a site. Would it be better for SEO to put it at blog.example.com or at www.exampleblog.com? I already own www.exampleblog.com .
Would combining the words together to exampleblog ...
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Which ads return more revenue
i have a blog, i want to display ads and earn money as part time work. Can you suggest me which ads bring up more revenue except Google ads?
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Automatically generate and cut off the blog post preview texts from the full post text? Yes, no?
I run a blog with over 1000 posts that are only separated by tags, so each post can have multiple of those.
As it is mostly short news, videos and galleries, the description consists of 3-5 lines of ...
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Is the book “The Content Rules” still relevant in 2012? [closed]
"The Content Rules" was written by CC Chapman last year, and I was wondering if the book was still relivent in 2012, or if the ideas in it are dated. I started reading it in 2011, didn't finish it, ...
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Using Excerpts as Meta Descriptions?
I have been blogging from the past three years. And one thing that I didn't care about was to add Meta Description for every page. I was, unfortunately, fallen for the "Google doesn't care about Meta ...
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Does having blog and news on company's webpage come in pair?
I've recently opened up small IT company which main tasks will be to administrate it infrastructure, outsourcing it, programming small applications (and release some of them for free, some to be ...
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How do I run a subdirectory on a separate server?
I have a site, www.domain.com. I want to set up a blog which runs on a separate server than the main site, and have it available a the domain www.domain.com/blog.
How would I go about doing this? If ...
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Question about guest bloggers
I see more and more blogs out there with guest bloggers. What is the rationale? Is it better to have a guest blogger, be a guest blogger, or have a reciprocal arrangement? Should you limit the number ...
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Is there a blogging platform that allows me to give traffic related bonuses to writers?
I would like to be able to reward writers with bonuses based upon the amount of traffic their individual posts receive, to encourage them to promote their posts on the internet. Is there a platform ...
