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5 SEO Tips for the Technical Blogger

Published on: April 29, 2011 and has 20 Comments

When I first started blogging almost four years ago, I didn’t know anything about SEO. I wrote posts that I thought were useful to others, and didn’t worry about researching keywords, keyword density, or even how the post would rank in search engines.

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The Key to Succeeding Online: Adaptation

Published on: April 20, 2011 and has 12 Comments

Best Strategies for Marketing Your Business Online

While I haven’t realized the success as the bloggers in John Paul’s articled have achieved, I still have learned a lot in my almost 4 years of blogging. One thing, however, has stood out above all other ideas with regards to success online: adaptation.

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How CloudFlare Kept My Blog Running

Published on: March 25, 2011 and has 18 Comments

I have been using CloudFlare for about 5 months. I mainly chose to look into using CloudFlare because of the performance benefits for my blog. CloudFlare is similar to a CDN in that it will cache many of the static elements on your site, such as images, Javascript, and CSS, and then send them to your visitors when they are requested. This means that your host’s server just needs to worry about sending the dynamic content, such as the Web pages, which reduces the load on the server.

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10 Strategies for Getting More Blog Comments

Published on: March 14, 2011 and has 7 Comments

Studies have shown that the majority of online users are lurkers (observe or read without contributing), with less than 5% actively contributing. Most readers leave a blog without contributing in any way or leaving comment. If you would like to have more comments on your blog, there are ways of encouraging more activity.

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Becoming A Successful Blogger Is All About Time

Published on: February 28, 2011 and has 19 Comments

A lot of people seem to think that starting up a blog is easy and it immediately means they are going to see a steady increase of traffic appearing within weeks when this is just not going to happen (if you are doing things legitimately). A lot of start ups will not see increase in traffic and then give up all hope, after all what is the point in spending hours creating great content that no one is reading right?

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Don’t Keep Your Visitors Waiting: Monitor Your Blog’s Performance

Published on: February 11, 2011 and has 6 Comments

I am always concerned with the performance of my blog to the point where I try to test the performance on at least a weekly basis. My quest to make my blog perform at its best led me to use CloudFlare to cache and send my static content. There could be any number of reasons [...]

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Be Part of the Discussion: Use Good Commenting Etiquette

Published on: January 28, 2011 and has 1 Comment

Over the past few weeks I have been removing more of the spammy-type of comments from Technically Easy. I have decided to become more stringent with the type of comments that I allow on this blog. The comments that add to the discussion of the post’s topic are not deleted, nor are comments that don’t [...]

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