What does a chain and Jerry Seinfeld have to do with resuscitating your blog? Well the short story is that Mr. Seinfeld works on his comedy by working on his jokes and he works on his jokes by writing everyday. He uses a motivational technique to ensure that he writes every day, he calls it “Don’t Break the Chain“. He takes a big wall calendar and puts an x on the days he does write. If he doesn’t write one day, he breaks the chain. The idea is too keep the chain going and don’t break it.

You can do the same for your blog. Get a big wall calendar or use this online version of Don’t Break the Chain. There’s even an option to add it to iGoogle/Google Calendar or display it on your blog. It’s fun and a perfect tool for visual people.

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If you tend to get really awesome blog post ideas when you are not by your computer (of course because you can’t be creative if you sit there all day) then you may want to check out www.posterous.com! You see you can post a blog post, twitter post, new pic on flickr and more all with www.posterous.com!

All you need to do is register on their site, confirm your email address, create your profile, and set up your blog/twitter/flickr/facebook settings. Then blog from the train, the cafe, the long drive (if you aren’t driving), the park, while waiting for the ski lift, … you get the idea!

It works fabulously with your WordPress blog, so what are you waiting for? Get “autoblogging” already!

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Track your blogsite visits, keywords, visitor locations and more through Google Analytics and this WordPress plugin. Here’s how

1) Create an account on Google Analytics and get your Google “UA” number (you will see this at the end of your account set up)
2) Download and fpt this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ultimate-google-analytics/ into wordpress.

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If you are sick of the thousands of comment spam that comes through your blog, then you’ll love this plugin!

The plugin called “WP-spam free”. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-spamfree/ I started using it a few weeks ago and it stops the comment spam. The installation steps are pretty simple
- download
- unzip
- ftp to your wp-content/plugins/ folder
- activate the plugin “wp-spam free”
- go the configuration page (plugins -> wp-spam free) to ensure it is set up properly and change some of the settings if you wish

and you are done! Spam no more!

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