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This week’s weekly round up is list of articles covering some of the best articles written over the last couple of weeks. The resources covered in this week is for bloggers looking for way to write more high quality articles, different ways to modify WordPress, and tips to be more successful at using social media.

Blogging

Are You Networking? – Keith over at Hot Blog Tips wrote and did a great video about networking.

Writing a Business Blog: Five Things You Need to Know – A guest post on Web Tech Wise about writing content on your blog. By having good content you can easily drive traffic to your site, build a following, and find more clients.

List of 51 ways to make your blog popular – Looking for ways to make your site more popular? Anil writes an excellent article that gives us tips to help get your site more traffic. I have already started doing some of his tips and I can see a difference.

10 Great Tips on How to Write Killer Content – One way to get more traffic and keep your readers returning for more, is to have killer content. As many bloggers have stated, “content is king” and I have to agree. This article has some great tips about writing killer content, that will surely help you on your way to creating killer content.

Top 10 Things That Can Hurt Your Blog –  I have been building and running sites for almost five years, and I found there are certain things you should and shouldn’t do. Take a look at the article and if you are breaking any of these rules, change them. You will see more return visits and your bounce rate will start to get better.

6 Ways to Constantly Produce Quality Blog Content –  The author of this article talks about different ways to produce quality blog content and how you can easily accomplish content goals.

WordPress

5 WP Plugins for Easy Reader Contact –  Selena Narayanasamy guest posted on Web Tech Wise about WordPress Plugins for Businesses. If you find those plugins helpful you may also find her guest post she did for us helpful.

WordPress Wednesday : Superspeed Your Blog – Guest Post by Joe Boyle on Hot Top Blog Tips about speeding up WordPress. Speed is important, not only for SEO purposes but, readers enjoy a fast loading web site as well. A slow loading hurts your search engine rankings and readers HATE a slow loading site.  – Yes my site is a little slow, and I am currently working on figure what causing the site to slow down.

100 Ultimate WordPress Hacks and Tweak – A great list of resources. There is a ton of tweaks and hacks for WordPress. You can find almost any kind of hack for WordPress.

3 Ways to Exclude Pages from the WordPress Navigation Bar – Looking for a way to exclude pages from the WordPress navigation bar? Well the author of this article give us three very different ways to accomplish this. One of these should be able to help you accomplish your goals.

Social Media

Leaving Facebook: You’re Kidding Right? – Mike Stenger wrote a great article / video about privacy and Facebook. Its absolutely nuts for people to jump to conclusions about what Facebook does about privacy or lack of… First all, business shouldn’t be sharing their personal life on there. If they have private information on Facebook, they shouldn’t be sharing it. Look at this way, if you do not want a perfect stranger  / potential client knowing what you did last night or not seeing picture of you doing something stupid. Then STOP SHARING that stuff. Its that easy…

What is Social Media Optimization (SMO)? – Looking to market directly to a targeted audience? Check out this article bout SMO. Anton writes about the basics of SMO.

9 Tips to build your reputation on Twitter like Guy Kawasaki – Looking to build your influence in the world of Twitter and other social media networks. Take a look at this article. These tips are a sure way to help increase your influence in the world of social media.

7 Social Media Truths You Can Ignore and Still be Successful – The author calls them “claims”  but I call them myths. Everything he talks about are definitely myths and as a social media  user and consultant, I believe what works for me, may not work for others. You have to figure out what works best for you and your followers.