Author Archives: Blair Williams

WordCamp 2010 Orange County Style

By Blair Williams | Published: April 7, 2010
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be speaking at WordCamp in Orange County, California on April 24th! The organizer of this event — Brandon Dove (of Pixel Jar, Think Press and @brandondove fame) and I met & became friends at Blog World / WordCamp Las Vegas last October. Brandon has asked me to cover two [...]
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Optimize your Blog with these 4 Powerful Tools

By Blair Williams | Published: March 29, 2010
If you haven’t heard yet Matt Cutts (Google’s SEO Spokesman) announced last month that performance (measured by page load speed) is a big indicator in SEO now. I’ve taken that indication seriously and have been searching out some ways to optimize the performance of my blog and think you should too. When assessing your blog, [...]
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Tweet Your Blog Posts … Automatically

By Blair Williams | Published: March 23, 2010
Shrinking your blog posts’ permalinks (on existing or newly created blog posts) and then sending a tweet out for them can be a hassle — especially if you have multiple twitter accounts. Luckily, you can automate this process and auto tweet your blog posts right from your wordpress website using Pretty Link Pro. Hopefully this [...]
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Successful Affiliate Link Campaigns: Replacing Keywords with Pretty Link Pro

By Blair Williams | Published: March 18, 2010
Pretty Link Pro is a very powerful application for successful Affiliate Link campaigns — and one of it’s most important features for Affiliate Link campaigns is Keyword Replacements. This feature allows you to attach keywords to your pretty links and have those keywords replaced throughout your blog with click-able links to that pretty link. This [...]
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