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You have seen the teaser and now this is what you have been waiting for. We are now going to celebrate Christmas in August with a “thou shall win” Contest in celebration [...]

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It’s Time to Appreciate Your Readers

Posted on August 1, 2008 by Yan

Inspired by Joe from IMwithJoe.com, today I’d like to take the initiative to show my appreciation to all my readers and thank them for being such an awesome bunch of people who have participated in this blog and contributed their thoughtful comments.
Let me just quote something from Joe’s article on Reader Appreciation
It’s no secret, that [...]

How Did Google Calculate Your PR?

Posted on July 28, 2008 by Yan

The buzz of excitement - and disappointment - around the blogosphere these few days are so real that whenever you’re blog hopping, the subject of Google PR Update keeps popping out. You’ll hear all the “cheers” and the “moans”. Some argued that whether it’s really worth the excitement.
To each his own, for me getting a [...]

The Best Places to Get Quality Backlink

Posted on July 24, 2008 by Yan

Update: This blog is now PR 3.
Previously on thoushallblog.com, I revealed a little secret of link building with an article, What They Don’t Teach You About Link Building which has become one of the most popular article on this blog. The most popular being 15 Most Under-Utilized Plugins for SEO just in case you have [...]

Ideas for Your Blog Topic

Posted on July 23, 2008 by Yan

This is a guest post by Larry from ClubBlogger.com, if you want to know more about ClubBlogger.com and to hear more from Larry, please subscribe to his RSS Feed.
Although the common perception is that blogging is just a personal diary of writing mundane facts and personal trivia, blogging in fact can help raise a lot [...]

A Little Teaser to the Upcoming Contest

Posted on July 21, 2008 by Yan

Win more than $1500 worth of prizes..
To celebrate the third month anniversary of thoushallblog.com, I’m proud to announce that I’ll be holding a “Thou Shall Win” Contest later at the end of July 2008.
I’m in the midst of securing more sponsors and working out the finer details of the contest. So here is a little [...]

5 Possible Ways to Speed Up Your Blog

Posted on July 18, 2008 by Yan

Does your blog load as quickly as you — and your users — would like? or does it take ages to load? Have you ever got frustrated waiting for a slow and sluggish site to load a single page?
In this respect, “first impression really counts”. That’s why it’s important to make sure that your site [...]

Optimize robots.txt for Better SEO

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Yan

If you aren’t in the know, search engine is not as smart as what you think it is. It can’t tell which pages of your site should be included in the index and which files to ignore. Therefore we need to instruct it on what to do using a robots.txt file.
What is robots.txt file?
A robots.txt [...]

WordPress Template Tag

Posted on July 14, 2008 by Yan

What is a Template Tag? It is a php tag used within your blog’s Templates to display information dynamically.
Say you want to display the recent 10 posts on your sidebar, you probably need the following tag
<? php wp_get_archives(’10′); ?>
where 10 is the no. of posts to display.
Now have you ever got yourself lost while searching [...]

The Uploaded File Could Not Be Moved To [The Solution]

Posted on July 12, 2008 by Yan

On one fateful occasion when I had problem uploading images from the admin dashboard, I wrote a post with the similar title The Uploaded File Could Not Be Moved To [Unsolved] and little did I know that it has become one of the most popular post with the second highest organic traffic based on my [...]

15 Most Under-Utilized Plugins for SEO

Posted on July 9, 2008 by Yan

Search Engine Optimization is all about optimizing your blog to position it higher in the Search Engine Results and thus increase overall visibility. It’s one of the most, if not the most, important aspect of blogging.
In what I have come to learn, there are 3 fundamentally important factors determining the success of a blog, not [...]