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To close out the year, and hopefully put an end to the endless series of ‘question’ posts that I’ve had between Christmas and now, I thought I’d ask about what resolutions [...]

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If you haven’t configured a Google Sitemap for your blog, then you have no control over what the GoogleBot might pay attention to when it comes to your site, nor how often. This is just something that will work out better for your blog once it’s done.
Download the plug-in here and install and activate [...]

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This just showed up in my dashboard about an hour ago - according to WordPress, an urgent security release is now available, with the recommendation that all users running 2.3.1 upgrade as soon as possible.
I’m not normally in the habit of posting stuff like this here on BloggingNotes, but being that it’s a Saturday, it [...]

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Quick, how many people knew in late 2006 that Facebook was going to turn into the monster that it has? That it would have blogs dedicated solely to making money on Facebook? A few probably saw it coming, but while Facebook’s stock has been on the rise for the probably longer than a [...]

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While I realize that a question like this will tend to be a little vague, I’d be interested in hearing what BloggingNotes readers might consider the established blog that’s going to break out in the next 12 months and become a niche leader, or is there something that’s only been around for a month or [...]

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A few days ago I made the decision to move my home machine to the latest version of Ubuntu Linux, due to the fact that I’m using it a lot more at work lately, so I could use the experience, but my machine also runs better under Linux than it does under Windows. Maybe [...]

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The other day, Courtney Tuttle wrote about How to Trash Your Blog’s Brand in 5 Easy Steps, which struck a chord with me. Not for what was in the list of steps, but what came before that:
Whether you like it or not, your blog is a business and a brand. From the first time [...]

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I hope that everyone had an enjoyable Christmas, and even though it’s Boxing Day here in Canada, I’m back at work, which is fine by me, as my employer gave us the 24th off instead of today, and a four day holiday is something you should never turn down.
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I would like to take this time to wish all of my readers a very Merry Christmas, and regardless of what you may believe in, the very best of the season.  This is the only post that you’ll see on here today, but I’ll be back at it tomorrow.
All the best,Rod Templeton

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This is going to be a weekly round-up of stuff that I found during the week that I thought BloggingNotes readers might find useful or interesting that I either couldn’t work into a post, or I just didn’t get time for it. It’ll get posted usually around noon, Pacific Time, each Friday (hopefully, anyway. [...]

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