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Flickr is a great resource for finding top quality free pictures to use on your blog. Lately, I've explained how to find and use free pictures on flickr to several people so for future reference here's a short guide on the best way of finding and using pictures on flickr.

Search Creative Commons Pictures

Head on over to the flickr Creative Commons search to find pictures you can use on your blog for free. The only stipulation is you must attribute the original owner of the picture, but that is a small price to pay for free top quality pictures. Read the full post

Lately, I’ve been helping a lot of people who are new to the blogging scene get theirs up and running and optimized. Since I found myself sharing a lot of the same blog tips with multiple parties, I’ve decided to publish some …

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After seeing a few of my favorites bloggers sign up for the course, I knew I had to try it too. Of course, I’m talking about Darren Rowse’s 31 Days to Build a Better Blog course at his extremely popular and successful …

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Here at The 42nd Estate, we run our own network of wordpress blogs where we publish unique content. Through the course of operating this blog network we discovered there was a set of plugins that we always installed in each new wordpress blog. Without further ado, here are the nine essential wordpress plugins for your new blog: Read the full post