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Personal online brand-building roadmap

Getting started with building your own personal online brand can seem like a tough challenge: bewildering lists of new concepts, complicated technology, complex terms and new skills to be learned. For most of us out there, we stand little chance of working it all out on our own to build a successful online brand, a platform for getting our ideas out there and, who knows, maybe even one day earning and income from it all…

The good news is that Brand-Forge.com are here to provide you with the link between your technical capabilities and your goals. We offer a total online brand-building service from the ground up for those who need it, and a low-cost, high-spec hosting & WordPress web publishing service for advanced users who just need the tools - and any variation in between.

As part of our vision to demystify online brand-building, blogging, search engine positioning and web development in general, Brand-Forge.com are publishing a weekly series of articles called “the Personal online brand-building roadmap”. Mostly this is designed for beginners but we’re sure there will be something in it for everyone - in this game, you should never stop learning!

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My Top Commentators WordPress Plugin

If you ever wondered who your most loyal readers are at all times, now you can find out with the Top Commentators WordPress Plugin by Daily Blog Tips. Once you install this Plugin you check your commentator stats from within your WordPress admin Dashboard. The cool thing is that you can actually see an emerging pattern or not about your most active commentators by looking at various time frames such as:

• Last year
• This year
• Last month
• This month
• Last 7 days
• Yesterday
• And today

This could be ideal for bloggers who would like to single out a commentator and thank them specifically once a month, or else you could buddy up with them since you seem to share the same interests for joint ventures. Read more

9 Sites With Cool Stock Icon Sets

Icons are part of our lives these days when we are involved as webmasters. Gone are the days of drab looking designs and the lack of choices we had. Today, we find groovy looking icon sets all across the web and with a bit of digging, even you can find some that appeal to you. Icons aren’t just icons either. They make a bold statement about you and your ability to look cool. They help you to set yourselves apart from the masses and like a car number plate they say something about the owner. On my search for some nice and different sets of stock icons I came across some very good designs. Some cost a little more than others but in the end, you have to decide whether it is worth the expense or not. As you know, looking good has its price. Enjoy! Read more

Woopra - A follow Up Post

Not so long ago I wrote about a killer new stats system that will get you addicted. This post is to follow up and tell you a little more, since when I wrote the last post I have been accepted (finally) and am on my best way to become totally addicted to Woopra. I want to show you how much information is to be gained from their application and what it can do to help you rank better in the search engines. So let’s get into it and see what this baby does for us. First of, it is always great to know who refers traffic to us so that we can go and say thank you were applicable plus see where our efforts to get traffic pay off. Under My Referrers you will be able to see how much traffic you got from a referrer, who sent you the most traffic and a nice nifty graphic which indicates the portion of search engine traffic to your blog. Read more

Website Traffic Series Part 7: Putting A Blog on Your Static Website

The Website Traffic Series will try to cover all the traffic generation strategies available, so some of them might not apply to blogs necessarily. This one, for instance, is geared towards people that have static websites, like a company or business site. Even if you are a blogger, however, you might need to create a static website in the future, or to do consulting for a company that has one, so I think you could still benefit from knowing the different angles of this technique. The Concept: Blogs revolutionized the Web for several reasons. First of all, the appearance of blogging specific software like WordPress or Movable Type, as well as the free hosted solutions like Blogger, enabled pretty much anyone (even people with zero knowledge of HTML) to create their own website and to share with the world their ideas and knowledge. Secondly, blogs introduced features like comments and trackbacks that allowed users to interact with each other more efficiently. What before used to be a monologue (from the few websites that published information) became a conversation where blogs, websites, authors and readers all interacted and shared their thoughts. Read more

Importing WordPress Files To Another Blog URL

WordPress has an “import” function that you can use to transfer all your blog posts, pages, comments, users and even tags to a new WordPress blog on a different domain. You can find this function under Manage > Import > Import WordPress You probably won’t need to do this ever, but in my case when I decided to rebrand NetworkRevolution.org to MLMRenegade.net I had to use this function because:

1. I’ve done it before and I know it’s easy
2. You can choose to automatically import images and other attachments from your old blog to your new one, and the actual path to these files will also be updated
3. It maintains every post and comments on the posts exactly as you’d want them to be

This time around however I got this error message: Read more

Online brand-building for bands & musicians

Brand-Forge.com combines easy-to-use tools, based on the award-winning WordPress publishing suite, a complete hosting service and design services to help you take your online music promotion to the next level. Our service is based on trusted technology providing you with a cost-effective solution for online branding, reclaiming your online identity from sites like MySpace & YouTube and creating a personalised focus, integrated with your online profiles.
Hosting services from £3 per month Design/creation packages from £250 one-off	Update services from £6 per hour Support is always free
We pride ourselves on our professionalism and results but don’t take our word for it, listen to your customers: “My website & MySpace profile were designed and built by Brand-Forge.com and I cannot say enough positive things about them. I was especially impressed by their attention to detail and concern for what their clients are looking for. They maintained a constant line of communication, providing me with not only what I had initially asked them to do, but above and beyond what I was expecting from them. I wouldn’t think twice before recommending them to colleagues and friends.”
Natasha Panas, singer, songwriter, soul artist.	www.natashapanasmusic.com www.myspace.com/natashapanas

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WP theme - Rebel Magazine

In my quest to find out dazzling themes for professional blogs, I happened to trace a cool, magazine style wordpress theme - Rebel Magazine. The theme has been designed by Filipina and Netrepreneur Chiq Montes of WPThemeDesigner.com. Before I move to give my personal opinion about this theme, lets eye on its basic features:

• It’s 2-column-theme.
• It has Right sidebar.
• CSS compliant.
• Widget-ready.
• Compatible with Firefox, IE 7 & Opera.

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3 Simple Secrets to Reducing Your Blogging Stress

This is a guest post by Karl Staib. Thoughts, creativity, and writing should flow freely and without tension. As I was writing an article a few months ago I noticed the strain in my stomach, neck, and jaw. I was straining to get the thoughts out. As if tensing my muscles would actually help me focus or even create something helpful to my readers. My writing was strained because I was uptight through the process. The tension was creating pain and I knew that I needed to fix the way I wrote my blogs. I ignored it in the past because I thought it was normal, sprinting through my thoughts until I began to stumble, hoping that after the first push of energy was over I would have something concrete to work with. And even when I ended up with a minor headache it was okay because I accomplished the work I set out to do. This cycle couldn’t continue and I needed a system. 1. Outline, Outline, Outline Writing was usually a chase for me. I would chase after the perfect sentences. A lot of times I would only have a flicker of a thought and begin writing – no planning, just bulldozing ahead, hoping it would all come out into something readable. Now I write a small outline to make sure I know where I’m going with the topic. The outline has reduced my tension because I can see the larger picture. When I get stuck, I check my outline and find myself getting back on track with minimal stress. Read more

Blog Marketing The Business Marketing Bomb

Business bloggers have a huge marketing bomb at their disposal and many don’t even know it. Business blogs are serious marketing bombs if used correctly and I’ll tell you why. How many businesses run a conventional website but once they launch it it is all but forgotten. You can easily see this for yourself when you do a Google search on just about any topic. Thousands of neglected websites are hanging on by a bare thread with nothing much to show for. Guess what, these businesses hardly get any traffic. No traffic equals no sales. It’s a simple as that. Read more

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