This page contains some of the more popular posts in this blog, as well as some editorial picks based on the questions I answer in the WordPress.com support forums.

Beginner Blogging

1. OMG! I can’t find my blog on Google
2. Recovering a lost blog post or page
3. WordPress.com Beginners’ Guide
4. Gravatar, Avatar, Blavatar
5. Creating a New Blog
6. Avoid creating 404 pages
7. How to structure a reader and search engine friendly blog
8. WordPress Front Page Comment Display
9. WordPress.com Comments and Discussion Settings
10. New content: WordPress.com Pings For You
11. Copyright basics for bloggers
12. Copyright and Public Domain
13. WordPress Formatting and Spacing
14. WORD and WordPress
15. Basic Netiquette for Beginner Bloggers
16. Custom menu walk-through
17. Your Personality and Writer’s Voice

How to become a Better Blogger

1. How to become a Better Blogger 1 Introduction
2. How to become a Better Blogger 2 Online Privacy
3. How to become a Better Blogger 3 Ethics and Links
4. How to become a Better Blogger 4 Essentials
5. How to become a Better Blogger 5 Your Online Presence
6. How to become a Better Blogger 6 Theme Evaluation
7. How to become a Better Blogger 7 Brand Evolution
8. How to become a Better Blogger 8 Goal Setting

Better Blogging

1. Key 10 Questions for Bloggers
2. Six Traits of Successful Bloggers
3. Why About Pages are Essential
4. Creating an Effective Tagline
5. Tips for Organized Blogging
6. Blogging: Focus on Content Creation
7. Top 5 Informative Writing Tips for Bloggers
8. Better Blogging: Powerful Persuasive Writing
9. Blogging: Comment Baiting
10. Why blog comment moderation is a good thing
11. Dealing with Annoying Subscribers
12. Self hosting: What’s your hurry?
13. Better Blogging at WordPress.com: Pages and Posts
14. A comment policy for your blog
15. Share Your Blogroll Linking Strategy
16. Multi-Author WordPress.com Blogs
17. F-Bomb Free Blogging

Building a Better Blog

1. Widget: Less is More
2. Strategies for reducing page loading time
3. Ten Strategies for Reducing Bounce Rate
4. WordPress.com Theme Team:  Stellar performers
5. 12 Step Blog Evaluation
6. Adding scroll bars to text widgets
7. How to add a countdown ticker to your blog
8. How to make html tables for your WordPress blog
9. Align Images: HTML Tables for WordPress.com Blogs
10. Translation widget for WordPress.com blogs
11. WordPress: Create a random post icon

Business Blogging

1. WordPress.com Newsletter Subscriptions
2. Business Blogging: Where’s social networking taking us?
3. Making Money Online During a Recession
4. Blogging is Big: Blogging Statistics
5. Blogging and Demographic Groups
6. Silver Surfers: The New Social Networking Wave 
7. How to remove data from Google’s cache

Images and Media

1. WordPress: Placing images in text widgets
2. Uploading and inserting images in the new wordpress.com
3. Inserting images full sized in the new wordpress.com
4. More on inserting images full sized in the new wordpress.com
5. Image editing and preparation tips Part 1
6. Image editing and preparation tips Part 2
7. Ten Free Online Image Compression and Optimzation Programs
8. Watermark your images
9. Blogging: SEO images enhance your posts

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. How to structure a reader and search engine friendly blog
6. How to select and use anchor text effectively
7. Incoming Links at WordPress.com
8. Understanding Reciprocal and Non-Reciprocal Links
9. Understanding Backlinks
10. Blog Directories for Backlinks and Traffic

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?

Social Bookmarking

1. Facebook Like Box for WordPress.com
2. WordPress.com Adds Facebook to Publicize

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

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