5 Top Blogging Tips for Freelancers

If you’re a freelancer who’s looking to get your business started, or a freelancer looking for more business, then blogging might just be for you.

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Updating to WordPress 2.9

Last week, WordPress released the latest revision “Carmen” or WordPress 2.9.  As with most software updates, bugs are fixed, enhancements are made and many features are added including some of my favorites like aa built in image editor and an extremely easy way to include videos in your posts by just using the url which is what I did to include this one:

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Optimize Your WordPress Blog – API Codes, Uploads and Plugins

optimizeNow that you have your WordPress blog up and running it is time to do some search engine optimization. To do this I want to start with some settings located in your WordPress admin area. After changing a few settings I will introduce you to a plugin and how to activate the plugin. After that I will talk about downloading a new plugin that will require uploading to your blog. The downloading and uploading discussion will touch on using two methods: an FTP client, or a website host. Finally, the article will also address getting an API CODE which is necessary for activating the spam plugin and stats plugin.

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How FAQ Pages Could Boost Your Ratings

I recently came across this great article about FAQ pages and how they can actually boost your ratings on Google and other search engines.

faqFAQ Pages Could Boost Your Google Rankings

By Chris Crum – Fri, 03/13/2009 – 08:00

Catering to Intent-based Search the Key
In a recent report, Hitwise said that the length of search queries has increased over the past year. Longer search queries, averaging searches of 5+ words in length, have increased 10% from January ’08 to January ’09 they noted.

Ask has an interesting blog post up interpreting this data, and the gist of it is summed up with this paragraph from it: (more…)

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