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		<title>Content And Usability Before Blog Promotion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Holman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I occasionally come across new bloggers who are eager to generate traffic to their blog.  They become focused on blog promotion and SEO before their blog is ready. I applaud their efforts, but I think it&#8217;s a mistake to promote your blog to prematurely. Photo by Kelly Asmodee via Flickr A good web site should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Add Image Thumbnail Using WordPress Custom Fields</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few days, I have been toying around with the idea of setting up WordPress as the CMS for a web site directory. One thing I wanted to do with my personal finance directory is to show a thumbnail image of the featured site when I am on the main page, category pages, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Design A Usable Reader-Centric Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Holman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most common design issues associated with web sites, and especially with blogs, is clutter. It&#8217;s so easy to fill the sidebar with links, widgets, and clicklets. So easy that even the most ardent minimalists have to stop and unclutter their sites from time to time. So, how do you decide if something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Find the Right WordPress Theme</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Holman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whoa, is there such a thing as the wrong WordPress theme? Sadly, the answer is yes. There are literally thousands of themes out there. There are some really good ones, and inevitably, there are some bad ones too. Where to find WordPress themes Before I show you what make a theme bad, I would like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Are You Talking To?  Defining Your Target Audience.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Holman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d love to say &#8220;Everyone should read my blog.&#8221; Well, maybe everyone should, but not everyone will. Every blog has a target audience, no matter if they realize it or not. Defining who *is* interested and reaching those people is a key concept to your blog&#8217;s growth and development. Why? Photo via Wikimedia Commons If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compelling People To Subscribe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Holman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I write a blog about personal finance &#8211; specifically about my family&#8217;s specific and personal approach to how we handle our finances. It isn&#8217;t meant to be a blog with the most up-to-date cutting edge personal finance ideas, although my hope is that every reader learns a little something along the way they can apply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to Blogthority &#8212; the Beginning</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike Holman</dc:creator>
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