If you’re thinking about placing background music on your site, stop right now. Along with large animated GIFs, this has to be one of the tackiest things you can do with your site. SEOMoz has a list of reasons you can bring to your clients should you ever get asked to do this. [...]

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Leaving an effective voice message is an important part of conducting business. Failing to do so may result in your call not being returned, or even worse, annoying the other party.
Here’s a step by step walkthrough on how to give an effective voicemail:

Say your name when you pick it up. Don’t assume [...]

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In case you hadn’t noticed, registrations began on Tuesday for .mobi top level domain names for mobile wireless devices and cell phones.
Names are available on a first-come first-serve basis, though many common domain names have already been awarded to wireless companies and trademarked names.
The .mobi domain is managed by Mobile Top Level Domain, which [...]

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While the benefits of RSS become immediately obvious to some of us, the general internet population, don’t use it. In many cases, it’s not so much that they haven’t heard about it, it’s that they just don’t really see the point of it all.
The Moleskin has a good set of tips aimed at [...]

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Professional bloggers like Darren Rowse reflects here on a few security tips he has for keeping your blog safe from hackers, after his friend just recently got hacked.

Update your Blog Software
Keep an Eye on Dead Blogs
Backup your Blog
Protect Your Passwords
Choose Your Host Carefully

Especially for bloggers like him who write for a living, [...]

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Quick Online Tips has a timely reminder: make sure you update your domain contact address in time before someone else grabs it.
I have to admit that I managed to lose a website I’d been running for three years because of this. Events conspired but it was basically my own fault: I happened to [...]

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Need more visitors to your site, but don’t know where to start? SEOMoz website has come up with a list of 21 tips that will help you do just that.  Here’s a summary of some of the less obvious ones which I found useful.
Write Title Tags with Two Audiences in Mind
First and foremost, you’re writing [...]

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If you’re keen on simplistic minimalist weblog design, you might want to check out Plaintxt.org, a website dedicated to, well yes, minimalist WordPress themes.
Although Scott’s designs might not be as fancy or colourful as some of the myriad themes out on le internet, they’re extremely light and fast-loading.
What’s more, they’re also pretty [...]

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Never check your email first or last thing each day, reckons LifeDev, because it slows you down and affects the way you work.
I can see how useful adopting this tip would actually be because I tend to suffer from stacks of email each day! I also, like many people who work with a computer, [...]

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Eric Giguere has some excellent advice for getting relevant AdSense ads that particularly relevant to bloggers. He includes two examples that show how just one word can result in different ads being rendered.
Sometimes all it takes is one word or phrase to trigger different ads.
Although Eric’s suggestion that you should change the URL structure [...]

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While I don’t think anyone should ever add the over 124 extensions to Firefox at any one time, I think a sect few of the list could really make FireFox into the number one browser for getting around the Internet.
The list below comes from Listible, and is easy to add to your site. My [...]

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Jason Unger provides some useful tips on how to maximise the moment every blogger dreams of: the day your story makes it to the Digg front page or is Slashdotted and your inundated with site traffic.

Make your RSS feed autodiscoverable
Include related content in your posting.
Be online.
Make sure your site is sociable.
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There is no secret in the fact that bloggers, have ideas. It is also no secret, especially for those of us who blog, that these ideas typically come to mind at the worst possible times. Personally, I know there are times when I would get a fabulous idea for an article and [...]

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E-mail spammers are probably cursed on a daily basis, and it’s no surprise why. They waste valuable hours, disk space, and money each day. There’s little that the law can do nowadays to prevent spammers, but there are some steps you can take to make sure that your inbox stays spam-free.
Don’t use your primary [...]

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Office life can get so busy that most people find themselves thinking, “I wish I could add more hours to my day.” While there’s nothing you can do about the length of your day, you can definitely optimize the hours you have by using timesaving software. It’s rare to find a tool that can [...]

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