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I thought I would take a short break from Joomla Week and thought it would be neat to list some free blog directories worth submitting your site to (in my opinion) – for traffic, better Google listings or reputation management.

There is a lot of information out there about how to start a blog — but don’t click that link. The following instructions are a lot easier and you’ll get the same result:
1. Ignore buzzwords.
RSS, SEO, AdSense, Technorati, Digg. If you have a buzz word buzzing in your head and you’re not sure if it belongs on the ignore list, [...]

Of course, many see blogging as something which will disappear but I am not of this school, having blogged myself for some time a number of years ago. It allowed me to contact the people who mattered easily and allowed a cost-effective way to gather their thoughts and build relationships with them. Now that blogging [...]

This simple example can be applied to any business small or large and can be a useful, cost effective way to communicate directly with those that matter. Other benefits include:

Increasing brand/product awareness
As time goes by, more and more people will likely read your blog. Your blog shouldn’t be seen as an excuse for you to [...]

Traditional news and media is controlled by the news, print and media agencies which dictate what information is presented and how it is presented. If a news article needs to be put into the public domain, it must be sliced, diced and manipulated until an editor is happy for it to be presented to the [...]

Before blogging, there were other ways for people to communicate online, such as chronicles, diaries, email lists, bulletin board systems, and more. When the Internet came about, users wanted a way to communicate with people all over the world. Before the Internet, many of us had pen pals to mail to every now and then. [...]

A blog is a personal journal on the web. Its a website where you can share anything that you want. Weblogs express as many different subjects and opinions as there are people writing them. Some blogs are highly influential and have enormous readership while others are primarily intended for a close circle of family and [...]

The title tag (the description that appears on the top of the browser) of your site is one of the most important factors determining the search engine results position (SERP).
There are two common mistakes, however, the people commit when creating the title tag. The first one is to use a single title, usually the blog [...]

How to build a product landing page to sell our own products through our blog? Should we develop a page on the same domain, or should we put it on another domain?
In reality there are two questions there: the first one is about how to create landing pages, and the second one is whether you [...]

Enjoyed this post from SitePoint with a useful collection of Firefox add-ons geared towards web designers. I use a number of these already, but there are some new ones that I’ll be checking out.
While Firefox is a web browser first and foremost, thanks to its enormous add-on development community, it has been made to do just [...]