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Quick! Call Norris McWhirter! World Procrastination Record Smashed!

Woohoo!  What a proud day it is for me today guys and gals. I’ve just smashed my own (very impressive) procrastination record by taking a whopping 518 days to take a simple yet effective piece of advice that would take just 10 minutes to implement.  One of the agonising things about being me is that sometimes I’ll just know I should do something, it keeps popping into my mind… and I promptly do nothing about it.

At 518 Days This is a Personal Best

Behold my shiny new RSS subscription button. Revel in its sleek design, prominent position, squeal with unbridled delight as you make use of it, and gasp with joy as you realise I’ve finally made heavy use of the CTRL+C button and provided an e-mail subscription box. (Look, when it takes you this long to do something it needs a bit of fanfare OK?).

Where did I get this advice? Slides 33 &34 of Joost De Valk’s very useful Wordpress optimisation session at the 2008 A4U Expo. So I’d like to thank him for the past 518 days of unadulterated procrastination, the odd 3am “oh my god I’ve still not done that” moment, and several brain freeze type episodes. I don’t know why it’s his fault. Maybe his “get a big subscription button” button on slide 33 wasn’t quite big enough ;)

In My Defense Though…

I did take lots of advice from that session and implement it to great effect. Promptly even.  If you have a Wordpress blog and are still getting to grips with SEO I’d urge you to visit the above link and take good note of slides 12, 15, 18, 20 & 21. I’ve used all of these in the last 18 months to powerful effect on my Wordpress sites.

See you all at the 2010 A4U Expo and I hope to be a little quicker off the mark with taking good advice this time!

http://yoast.com/a4uexpo-wordpress-presentation/

This post is from: Kirsty's Affiliate Marketing Guide - Affiliate Stuff UK

Quick! Call Norris McWhirter! World Procrastination Record Smashed!

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