Thank you for all the tips so far.

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@Lucie- what, you’re not supposed to neglect your children when blogging? I think I missed the memo on that one…

My main ones are to switch to thesis, to get my own domain hosted on Blue host, learn how to do some of my own graphic design stuff (or save up to have someone do it for me!), make a custom header, think of a brilliant logo, grow my hits (views?) to ten thousand a month, make even the tiniest bit of money from my main blog, launch my spinoff blog, and not drop out of school and neglect my children in the process.

Here’s hoping to a great year for everyone!

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I want to move over from Blogspot to a hosted WordPress domain. Go back and optimize key posts to have higher page rankings. Increase pageviews and subscribers 200%.

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Good question! A permalink is a permanent link to a page, site, post etc. For example, the link to the home page of PYB is just the http:// etc address. If you want to tell people about my blog, you use that.

But, if you want to tell them about a post in particular, you don’t want to use the home page address because, even if that post is at the top of the page when you read it, as I add new content, the post moves down the page. So a post’s permalink is what you would use to link to me, and that is what really counts for search engines in search engine optimization.

The permalink is usually automatically generated, although (at least in Wordpress) you can choose the format. However, you can also choose what it will be. So instead of having the permalink to a post have ‘extra’ words like ‘and’ or ‘the’ in it, you can choose the words that are your keywords.

This helps in two ways: it makes the link shorter and less likely to break or be broken when somebody links to it, and it also helps by making the link more keyword dense.

Hope this helps!

Using Twitter more is also one of my big blogging resolutions. I need to do a lot more “prettying,” as well, so I should start making a list for that.

Thanks for all the helpful advice so far! I will continue following you in 2009!

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