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Blog Marketing with Press Releases

March 11, 2010
Blog Marketing with Press Releases

A press release is an announcement of something considered newsworthy by the submitter in hopes if it getting picked up by the media. If you’ve ever come across all those lists out there for best website traffic building ideas, I’m sure you’ve seen press releases mentioned in most of them. I was always under the [...]

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PhpDug Social News Software

March 10, 2010
PhpDug Social News Software

PhpDug is an open source website script where users can post and share news, images, and videos. This software is another clone of the Digg website similar to Pligg which I’ve discussed briefly before. The only personal difference is I’ve actually installed and somewhat customized a site using Pligg, but not with PhpDug.

With this kind [...]

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Free Website Traffic with Blog Carnivals

March 7, 2010
Blog Carnivals

While searching for new ideas on how to attract more visitors, I came across something called a blog carnival, yet I still am no exactly sure how it works. Despite my inability to wrap my head around the concept, I found a number of articles where people raved about how successful they are at bringing [...]

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PhpList Newsletter Manager Software

March 4, 2010
PhpList Newsletter Management Software

With my last theme I provided the options to subscribe to this sites RSS feed or to subscribe by email. While I would like to offer these options again, at some point I need to set something up so people can subscribe to an OpenSourceHack newsletter. I feel like I should probably decide which direction [...]

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Technorati Blog Claim Denied

March 3, 2010
Technorati

I checked on the status of my Technorati blog claim the other day only to find it was denied. I got this canned response that I’m sure some of you have already seen.
Thank you for submitting your claim on Technorati.com. Unfortunately, we have determined that the site at this URL does not meet Technorati’s quality [...]

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