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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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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If you copy and paste your blog posts from Word, or even your e-mail, into a blog post you may notice that your font is not consistent.  The problem is that Word (and email editors that use Word)  has it’s own code that hides in the background.  When you copy your content from Word into your blog post you not only copy the content but you copy the Word code as well. This means that your blog post now contains all of the Word code (if you want to see it, click the “code” tab when you edit or create the post), so your post may now appear in Times New Roman font or another font.  It may also be a different colour or size that is not consistent with your blog’s font settings. The Word code  conflicts with WordPress code in many other ways as well.

So how do you avoid this?  Do one of the following:

• Type your post right into your WordPress blog account.
•  If you prefer to write your blog in Word first then copy from Word to Notepad, then copy from Notepad to WordPress. Notepad is a basic editor and it does not contain any coding that would conflict with WordPress (or any other blogging software).
• If you prefer to write your blog outside of WordPress and you don’t care what you use, then write your post in Notepad and copy from Notepad to WordPress.

WordPress contains a spell cheker (look for the “ABC” icon in the toolbar) and it contains tools to change the font settings if you wish (click on the right most icon – it looks like a keyboard).

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So what is a blogsite really? Why should you care?

What difference would it make to your business if you knew what it was?

Would it attract money? clients? speaking gigs? magazine columns? the clients of your dreams?

Would it make you the go to person in your market?

Would it give you the ability to make changes to your site when you want to without knowing any geekese?

Would it attract Google?

Would it allow clients to find you instead of you seeking them?

If you do not care about any of the above, then please don’t keep reading and ask yourself “Why am I in business anyway?”

If you do care and you want to know more then I invite you to attend a free teleclass to learn more and ask your questions. We promise not to use any techie jargon and explain everything in plain English!

The teleclass will take place Wednesday June 4th at 12pm eastern (5pm London, 9am PDT). Sign up below!

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This is a question I get all the time. Here’s just part of the long answer.

A website (a traditional site created with html) becomes a pain to maintain. You either need to know html, have expensive software to update it or have your web person update it when they have time.

A blogsite is easy to maintain and you can update from any computer in the world (yes macs and PCs) with internet access.

Google and other search engines are giving priorities to blogs over regular sites for many reasons. Two main reasons are that blogs are updated with fresh content more frequently than regular sites and blogs are structured in a way that makes it easier for Google to find, index and add them to their list of results.

With blogsites you can:

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