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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