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Does your blog need CPR?

Posted in Blogging
February 2nd, 2010 by Henrik Flensborg

Don’t you sometimes feel that your blog needs a bit of CPR? – I know this blog and a few of my other blogs needs it.

It’s not always easy to come up with interesting stuff to blog about – sometimes you’re just not in the right creative mindset, sometimes nothing happens in your industry, sometimes you have the ideas but lack the time to properly research the topic.

But Lynette Chandler from BlogEnergizer might have a solution for you.

At the beginning of January I downloaded a neat little free report from Lynette called 12 Buzz Topics – it’s just pages long, and there’s a direct link to the pdf file on the page so you don’t need your credit card nor your emailaddress to get it.

I’ve used some of the ideas on some of my other blogs (not all the ideas apply equally well to my blogs – it all depends on what kind of blog it is).

Lynette also publishes a free weekly newsletter that I receive every monday, except for yesterday where Lynette forgot to press Send ;-) – but I got the email today when she noticed her blunder.

The newsletter is just like the free report; a handful of good ideas, topics and recommended resources.

Today for instance there was a link to Tungle.me – a free resource to schedule meetings and a link to some free workout music (which will come handy for me as well – on another blog) – plus a bunch of other stuff.

Lynette also has a premium membership available but I haven’t looked into that at all – so far I’m just enjoying the free jolt of energy every monday. The topics are so varied that I can easily keep 3 blogs supplied with ideas for at least 2 blog posts per week.

I know that Lynette can’t be the only one out there sharing resources to keep blogs alive, so if you know of similar websites or newsletters then please drop a comment below.

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Guest Posting for Quality Inbound Links and Targeted Traffic by Chriss Garret

Posted in Blogging Internet marketing SEO & SEM
January 20th, 2010 by Henrik Flensborg
Just noticed that Lynn Terry had picked up a copy of Guest Posting for Quality Inbound Links and Targeted Traffic by Chriss Garret for only $10.
There’s a lot of talk these days about guest blogging, and when it’s hard to decide which products to invest in and which ones to stay away from because they are nothing but just pure regurgitated hearsay, then it’s always a wise decision to give Lynn’s Clicknewz blog or her Internet Marketing forum a visit.
Backlinks are still a very important critical part of getting your pages ranked well, but it’s not always easy to get the number of backlinks needed of the right quality and of the best type (DoFollow).
Guest blogging solves 2/3 of that equation, but makes up for the missing 1/3 (number of backlinks) by getting you targeted visitors.
Lynn also has a few other recommendations that you might want to check out.

Just noticed that Lynn Terry had picked up a copy of Guest Posting for Quality Inbound Links and Targeted Traffic by Chriss Garret for only $10.

There’s a lot of talk these days about guest blogging, and when it’s hard to decide which products to invest in and which ones to stay away from because they are nothing but just pure regurgitated hearsay, then it’s always a wise decision to give Lynn’s Clicknewz blog or her Internet Marketing forum a visit.

Backlinks are still a very important critical part of getting your pages ranked well, but it’s not always easy to get the number of backlinks needed of the right quality and of the best type (DoFollow).

Guest blogging solves 2/3 of that equation, but makes up for the missing 1/3 (number of backlinks) by getting you targeted visitors.

Lynn also has a few other recommendations that you might want to check out.

Regardless of what you do you might also want to check out Chriss Garret’s The Business of Blogging and New Media blog.

Well, here’s a list of some of the most popular blog posts there

FTC disclaimer: I wasn’t paid to recommend either Lynn’s or Chris’ sites, but I do get a commission should you choose to buy his guest blogging ebook through my link

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Need help moving individual Wordpress blog posts from one blog to another

Posted in Blogging
February 7th, 2009 by User ImageHenrik Flensborg

I have a blog that was started the wrong way – it had too broad a focus.

So now I want to move half the posts to one blog and the other half to another blog.

I also want to have redirects put in place to redirect search engine bots and regular visitors to the new location of the post.

I know that I can Copy-Paste each individual post – but it’s going to take time to move 200 posts.

I know I can set up redirects with a Wordpress Plugin for each individual page after I move it – but it’s going to take time to set up 200 redirects one by one.

I also know that I can do a Tools->Export to have the entire blog dumped in an XML file and use Tools->Import to import them all into a new blog – but then I would have to go in and delete 100 posts in each of the new blogs I’m splitting the existing blog into. That’s not that bad, but I would still have to manually set up the redirects.

I know that I can also edit the XML dump so that I don’t have to manually delete posts afterwards, but I think its risky, prone to errors  and timeconsuming to do the manual editing of the export file – and there is still the question about the redirects :-(

So what I’m looking for is a solution that will enable me to:

  1. Move blog posts based on Category
  2. Automatically create redirects after the post has been moved

So far I haven’t been able to find a solution myself so I hope you can help me :-)

Please let me know if you’ve had this problem yourself – and how you solved it

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