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TIPS and Hints: Blogroll and Social Bookmarking

A Blogroll is a list of sites that you recommend.

It's a great way for people to find other blogs on a subject, and rather than driving away traffic, helps build readers as you belong to a community and link to each other.

In the VIEW A NEW PAGE ELEMENT, click Link List.

Type Blogroll or My Favourite Blogs or something similar as a heading.
Now link to everyone's blog in the classroom - easy!

Now you have a blog community.

What other questions do you have?

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TIPS and Hints - sidebar widgets

There are a number of widgets that can be placed on the sidebars.

Go to weatherpixie.com change the settings, click SET MY PIXIE
On the right hand side, click VIEW THE HTML FOR THIS LOCATION.

Scroll down, Copy the code.

Go back to your blog, and click HTML/Javascript (From Customize, Add a Page Element).
Paste the code in the HTML Javascript block.

Save Changes, Drag the block down the sidebar. View Blog

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TIPS and Hints - Keywords

NAMING and HEADER
Name of blog should be relevant - How To Blog is better for search engines than Be The Next Shakespeare or something. But this is a judgement call...
Click on Customize.
Click on Header and open the Header field window:
Make sure you have the keywords (the words people would use to search for your blog)
This is where it appears - at the top of the blog.

BODY:
Make sure the blog posts have the keywords in them as well.

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