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CDPB - Monthly Theme Hints and Tips

Monthly Theme day at CDPB is a great way to build your traffic. Not only is it a great way to challenge yourself, but it helps you to feel a part of this amazing community, or as I describe it to my friends: a mutual admiration society. The CDPB’ers have a wide range of skills and interests and an especially wide range of geographical locations! But they all have one thing in common, they encourage each other in a very positive way. They all know how much dedication it takes to keep taking pictures and posting them day after day. I’ve found that even one comment like “great job!” or “I love the little whats-it in the corner, cute!” can put a smile on my face and keep me going.

So if you are running a daily city photo blog, go sign up and join the theme day. Once you are signed up for the website, go to the forum. When you are signed in as a blogger, you will have more options in the forum. The theme day is the second option in the second block. Click on the first thread: “how to join.” There are two steps, you first join the theme as soon as possible then, on the first of the following month, go back and copy the list of links and paste them into your post for the theme. That’s it! Now you are part of the group, you have linked to them all and THEY HAVE ALL LINKED TO YOU. This brings lots of traffic and shoots your ratings up like a rocket - over 100 blogs linking to you at once!

Besides being part of the community, my attempt at contributing is to write about photography techniques and offer tips like this one. Not everyone in the CDPB group is a a professional photographer or web designer, they do it because they love it (the best reason to do anything!) But I am a professional photographer and web designer, so I want to help out by offering advice and information where I can. I hope my articles are useful, if you enjoy them, please link back to them and tell your friends. More of my articles are found under the categories “Photography Techniques” and “Building Traffic.”

Tomorrow is my 100th post, so please stop by and join me in celebrating this little milestone!

P.S. Gerald asked me to add that you can join the CDPB without having a blog. Also, if you join the monthly theme, make sure you post the theme with all the links. If you change your mind after you join, you can remove yourself from the list.[/lang_en]

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