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Socializing a WordPress site

By Dougal | Published: November 5, 2008

For this week’s WordPress Wednesday installment, let’s look at a few changes I’ve made here on this site in the past few weeks. As mentioned previously, there were several areas that I knew I wanted to go ahead and improve in the short term, as interim measures until I put a whole new theme in place. One of my primary goals here is gain and retain readers. I want to make the site “sticky” by providing several ways for visitors to keep up with my updates, and to spread my links to other potential readers.

Of course, the first part of gaining readership is to provide quality content. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged comments, Community, delicious, feedburner, Feeds, RSS, Social, social networks, stumbleupon, subscribe, subscriptions, Technorati, WordPress | 26 Comments

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