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The 5 Keys to Creating Wildly Popular Content

Posted on January 22, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot52 Comments

A few days ago I published an article called The 15 Best WordPress Plugins for 2010. That article quickly became very popular. It received hundreds of retweets. It secured hundreds of delicious bookmarks.  It had over 100 comments on it by the morning after it was published…

How to Stop Boring Your Readers To Sleep

Posted on January 21, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot37 Comments

I’ve seen your site. I clicked a link and came face to face with your home page. As soon as I landed there I searched frantically for something that I could at least pretend was interesting but I just couldn’t find it. My head smashed into my keyboard as my body convulsed into instantaneous sleep.…

7 Blog Posts That Will Transform Your Life

Posted on January 19, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot31 Comments

Every day we’re bombarded with blog articles. Right now as I look in Google Reader, I see that I have over 400 unread blog posts from sites that I highly respect. But many of these I’ll only skim through as I search out the ones that really hold the most value for me. I’m a…

The 15 Best Wordpress Plugins to Use in 2010

Posted on January 18, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot213 Comments

One of the reasons that I’m so madly in love with WordPress is the thousands of plugins available. It doesn’t matter what you want to accomplish on your blog, there’s probably a plugin that will allow you to do it.
This list is the 15 most incredible WordPress plugins. Only the best plugins have made…

The Importance of Kicking Puppies

Posted on January 17, 2010 - by Casey Brazeal29 Comments

Salacious Titles, Controversial Content, and Maintaining Credibility
I love to write headlines.  Loud, in your face, attention grabbing headlines. But most of the time I don’t.  It is rare that they fit the kind of content I like to write, and rarer that I can back up some screaming attention grabber like “Panda Bear Meat…

How to Effectively Recycle Old Blog Posts

Posted on January 13, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot58 Comments

If you really want to build content on your site that’s worth visiting then you need to learn the art of writing articles that are timeless in nature. In other words, it’s acceptable to write about things that are taking place this week, but visitors six months from now are going to click away immediately…

3 Powerful Laws of Getting & Keeping Visitors

Posted on January 5, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot20 Comments

There are few things in life as relaxing and as enjoyable as Christmas leave for me.  My two brothers, my sister and our families moved back into our parents house for a week and half of holiday celebrations.
We laughed like hyenas. We broke the buzzer on the Taboo game. We gorged ourselves with turkey,…

Fix the WordPress ‘Missed Schedule’ Error

Posted on January 2, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot26 Comments

Many people have noticed that with some of the newer versions of WordPress the scheduled posts feature has not been working.  Rather than publishing the scheduled post on time it simply displays the post in the backend with the message “Missed Schedule.”  If this is happening to you then I’ve got a very simple solution…

Writing for Real People (Part 2)

Posted on December 18, 2009 - by Nicholas Cardot6 Comments

What is Your Greatest Struggle Online?

Posted on December 13, 2009 - by Nicholas Cardot52 Comments

I remember the days when I was first beginning how to blog effectively.  In those days, I was constantly searching for solutions to problems that I was facing or ideas to improve my overall success.  But as I look back, I realize now that my challenges then were very much different than they are today.…