Popular Posts

smdatebook This popular posts page is an index of links to only some of the most popular posts found in One Cool Site: WordPress blogging tips, tools & tutorials, as well as, some editorial picks based on questions asked and answered in the WordPress.com support forums.

             Basic Blogging Index                                       Better Blogging Tips

Better Blogging

  1. Blogging: Yoga Style
  2. Blogging Improvement: Leveling Up
  3. Key 10 Questions for Bloggers
  4. Six Traits of Successful Bloggers
  5. Tips for Organized Blogging
  6. Writing a Blog Post
  7. Blogging: Focus on Content Creation
  8. Blogging Resources: Search Engines
  9. Better Blogging: Powerful Persuasive Writing
  10. Blogging: Comment Baiting
  11. F-Bomb Free Blogging
  12. Top 5 Informative Writing Tips for Bloggers
  13. Self hosting: What’s your hurry?
  14. Your Personality and Writer’s Voice
  15. Your Blogroll Linking Strategy
  16. Multi-Author WordPress.com Blogs
  17. Hand and Wrist Exercises for Bloggers
  18. 8 Tips for Effective Blogging
  19. Tips for Avoiding Blogger Burnout
  20. 6 Easy Ways to Feature Older Content
  21. Custom menus: Featuring Older Content
  22. 4 Ways to Refresh Your Blog
  23. Writers Resources for Bloggers
  24. Defining Blogging Success
  25. Top 7 Sure Article Types One May Benefit From
  26. Do I Need a Domain?
  27. OMG! My Domain Name Expired
  28. A Freelance Writing Business
  29. Moving Your Blog from WordPress.Com to WordPress.Org: Resources and Tips

Building a Better Blog

  1. 12 Step Blog Evaluation
  2. Ten Strategies for Reducing Bounce Rate
  3. Strategies for reducing page loading time
  4. Adding scroll bars to text widgets
  5. How to add a countdown ticker to your blog
  6. How to make html tables for your WordPress blog
  7. Align Images: HTML Tables for WordPress.com Blogs
  8. Translation widget for WordPress.com blogs
  9. WordPress: Create a random post icon
  10. How to remove data from Google’s cache
  11. Building a post index at WordPress.com with archives shortcode
  12. How to Prevent and React to a WordPress Hack Attack
  13. WordPress.com Forum Options

Blog Design

  1. Why Having a Well Designed Blog is Important
  2. Blog Design: Which colors do you use and why?
  3. Changing Your Blog? Start With the Colors
  4. Blog Colors on Different Browsers and Monitors

Images and Media

  1. Ten Free Online Image Compression and Optimization Programs
  2. Watermark your images
  3. Blogging: SEO images enhance your posts
  4. Get the Most Out of Image Search
  5. Cropper or Proper Image Preparation?

Link Building

  1. More Traffic and Backlinks for Your Blog: Guest Blogging
  2. More Traffic and Backlinks for Your Blog: Paper.li
  3. More Traffic and Backlinks for Your Blog: Scoop.it
  4. More Traffic and Backlinks for Your Blog: Squidoo 
  5. More Traffic and Backlinks for Your Blog: YouTube 
  6. More Traffic and Backlinks for Your Blog: Pinterest
  7. More Traffic and Backlinks for Your Blog: Awards and Memes 

SEO tips

  1. 5 Google Webmasters Video Tutorials
  2. Two SEO Videos for Bloggers
  3. Basic SEO elements for bloggers
  4. Blogging: Learning SEO is worth the effort
  5. Incoming Links at WordPress.com
  6. Understanding Reciprocal and Non-Reciprocal Links
  7. Understanding Backlinks
  8. Blog Directories for Backlinks and Traffic
  9. Revisiting Keywords and Tags
  10. Quick Blog Post Tagging Tips
  11. 12 Tips for Improving Search Queries Ranking Position
  12. Top 5 Site Title Tag Tips
  13. WordPress.com: Heading Tags from h1 – h6

Blog Promotion

  1. Twenty five steps to increase blog traffic
  2. Mastering Shameless Blog Promotion
  3. Top Social Media Tutorials
  4. WordPress.com in house blog promotion
  5. Promoting Your Writing or Poetry Blog
  6. Bloggers: Publish your book, ebook, or your blog
  7. Google+ added to Google Social Search
  8. Facebook or Google Plus?

Visitor Tracking

  1. Visitor tracking on WordPress.com blogs
  2. Real time visitor tracking (non-JavaScript) for blogs
  3. getclicky real time stats for wordpress.com blogs
  4. Two free unique visitor counters for wordpress.com blogs
  5. Blogging Metrics: Getting Quantified
  6. Download your Quantcast Data