36 blogging articles you loved the most in 2009

2009 was the first full year of How To Make My Blog and it has been quiet a year. There has been an exceptional response to the content featured on my blog. More than 250,000 unique visitors, 490,000+ page views, 3,500 comments, visits from 200+ countries and more than 150 blog posts published.

Join me as I travel back in time and remember this year’s best articles as voted by your page views, comments and social media shares.

Blogging productivity

• Planning to start a blog? Don’t plan it, just blog it!
• Are you a blog consumer or a blog producer?
• 8 tips to optimize your time for blog writing

WordPress blogging

• How to install WordPress – step-by-step guide
• 9 settings I always adjust as soon as I install a new WordPress blog
• Best practices to keep your WordPress blog safe

Blog design

• 6 ways I customized my WordPress blog theme and how
• 8 Thesis theme design tips to make your blog better

WordPress blog plugins

• 24 plugins that I currently use on my blog and why you should use them too
• 18 most downloaded WordPress plugins ever
• Top 5 Twitter plugins to incorporate into your blog

Blog post writing

• 10 elements of style of blog post writing
• 13 blogging lessons learned from Stephen King’s On Writing
• How to put your best blog posts back into the spotlight
• Thoughts on writing timeless blog posts and post bylines

Blogging celebrities

• How Gary Vaynerchuk built a multi-million dollar empire around a video blog
• 8 things every blogger can learn by studying Perez Hilton
• 9 reasons why Mashable rules the social media

Blog traffic

• From 0 to 200.000 visitors, 8 blogging lessons learned
• How to use the year end to grow your blog traffic and subscribers
• How to get your guest post featured at biggest blogs
• Case Study: ProBlogger Guest Post Effect On My Traffic
• How one blog comment can bring you 230+ unique visitors

Blog SEO

• Do not worry about SEO, just concentrate on your blog readers
• Google’s Matt Cutts on WordPress as the best blogging platform for SEO
• How I got my blog from Google PageRank 0 to PR4 in two months
• Top 33 silliest search queries people have found my blog with

Social media

• Make your blog go viral with Twitter ReTweets
• How I got my blog post retweeted by @problogger, @GuyKawasaki and 250 more
• 10 Simple Steps To Increase Blog Traffic Via StumbleUpon

Make money blogging

• How I earned $1000+ in blog revenue last month
• Living the pro-blogger lifestyle by selling you the blogging dream

Blogging tips

• 58 ways to build a better blog
• 6 steps to make your blog visitors loyal commentators
• How Google Wave will reshape the blogging world forever
• 90 awesome blog posts that inspired my blog’s growth in 2009

Happy blogging in 2010

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