The art of cross-promotion

Every blogger know it, promoting a blog or a website is not an easy task, especially when the blog is new. Though, if you already own one or more sites, you can use them to promote your new site.
This technique, called cross-promotion, is one of my favorite. It helped me launching WpRecipes, CatsWhoBlog, WebDevCat and more recently PHP Snippets.

In this article, I’ll show you how to efficiently cross promote your sites and blogs.
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Blog launch: 5 tips for success

Everyday, more than 10,000 new blogs are created. But how many are still maintened 3 months later? Probably less than 1%.

Launching a new blog is never easy. First, you have to make it known to the audience and get it indexed by search engines. But the biggest part of the work is to show your authority and make visitors come back to your blog. After launching several websites myself, I’m going to show you 5 tips to launch your blog successfully.
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How to use Google to find .edu, .gov and CommentLuv backlinks

You know it, in order to rank high in search engine results pages, you have to get strong backlinks to your blog. I recently published a list of 150 .edu sites to get free backlinks that many of you enjoyed.
Today, I got even better than a list: I’ll show you a technique to find .edu, and .gov site as well as blog with the CommentLuv plugin enabled, using the power of Google.
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5 expert tips to sell WordPress themes on your blog

WordPress is the favorite platform of millions of bloggers. Every day, people are buying premium WordPress themes and sites owners like me are making money with affiliate marketing.

Promoting WordPress themes is a profitable niche right now, but as the competition is becoming harder every day there’s a few things to know in order to be successful. Here are 5 expert tips taken from my experience as a successful WordPress affiliate marketer.
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How to get a more relevant Feedburner count

Since approximately one month, the Feedburner feed count algorythm changed and now displays how many people read your feeds the past day. If you publish posts on a daily basis, you shouldn’t be really annoyed by the difference. But if you post only once or twice a week, you’ll notice big differences from a day to another.

So what can you do? Let’s have a look to a really interesting solution: Displaying your feed count for an average of X days, which is more relevant in my opinion than the current Feedburner algorythm.
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10 examples of beautiful custom designed posts

Since some months, web designers and bloggers created a new blogging trend, named “Custom designed post”. So what’s this? Simply, it is a blog post which use a specific design instead of the blog main design.

In this article, I’m going to discuss the phenomenon a bit, and then showcase 10 absolutely awesome custom designed blog posts.
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