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Day 7: Comment

This is the most common advice that top bloggers give on building a readership for your blog; Comment Comment Comment! Commenting on blogs enable you to build a relationship not only with authors of the blogs but also with the readers. Rather than trying to repeat what top bloggers have [...]

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Day 6: Submit to blog and RSS directories

On Day 6, we submitted our blog to blog and RSS directories. Submitting your blog to directories is not only good for traffic, but it is also good for search engine optimisation. There are many blog and RSS directories but try to choose the ones [...]

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Day 5: Write a round-up link post
On Day 5, we wrote a round-up blog post titled Weekly Round-up: 15 must read development, design and blogging articles. The idea of round-up post is not new, but it has become increasingly popular in recent years for a few reasons; 1) People find them useful (some [...]

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Development
10 Stunning Examples of jQuery Animations
What’s Changed in jQuery UI 1.8
5 Groovy things you can do with htaccess
How To Use The Post Thumbnail Feature In WordPress 2.9
Understanding CSS – Padding, Positioning and CSS3
Design
Common elements on magazine websites
50 Incredible Asian Vector Portraits
4 Quick & Easy Design Theory Tips
Create a valentine’s day post card
30 High Quality [...]

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Day 4: Install widgets / plugins
Day 4 required a bit of web knowledge but don’t be afraid because you don’t need to be a web professional to complete this task.
Firstly, we added Social Bookmarking and Networking widgets to the blog. Social networking sites are one of the best ways to promote [...]

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Day 3: Give away something for free
Everybody loves freebies! So on Day 3, we decided to give something away for free. The best products to give away are usually digital products because it doesn’t require you to go through the hassle of organising a courier and instant delivery is guaranteed. [...]

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Hello Little Girl is a cute, fresh and summery theme, featuring a little girl. The template was created originally for Website Templates. Main colors are blue, green, yellow and dark brown. It is a two-columns template with a sidebar on the right.
Features:

Search Engine Optimised
Useful 404 page with links to [...]

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Day 2: Article Submission

Day 2 was a busy day compared to Day 1 because we spent the entire 2 hours allocated to complete the task. The plan for Day 2 was to submit articles on our blog to article directories and content sites. There are many article directories on the web, and [...]

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Day 1: Importing blog feed to Facebook profile

Import a Blog on Facebook
On Day 1, we had a quick and easy exercise. We added our Web Development Blog’s RSS feed to our Facebook profile using Notes application. Importing a feed to your Facebook profile is very easy and you can do so without [...]

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Over the next 7 days, we will be having a traffic building exercise in order to generate more traffic to Web Development Blog. Join us on our journey to building traffic and learning tips and tricks along the way.
Our Plan
We will be spending 1 – 2 hours every day to implement [...]

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