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For those who are blogging on a self-hosted blog, we normally host our blog on our own server as well so when the images are inaccessible, it also means that our blog might be inaccessible as well.

However, some bloggers do host their blogs on image hosting sites like Flickr, Photobucket and ImageShack or on any other external sites which are very prone to having broken images published on their blogs. Also, we might have mistyped the URL for our images sometimes.

A few weeks back, I introduced the Broken Link Checker plugin, which is capable of notifying bloggers blogging on a self-hosted Wordpress platform about the existence of any broken images found on the blog as well.

The Problems With Broken Images

A broken image is much more troublesome than a broken link as a broken image will have the following effects:

• Bad first impression for readers
• Fail your attempt to convey your information such as in a how-to article
• Ugly red X will be shown if your readers are using Internet Explorer

We are not monitoring and scanning through our articles 24 hours a day and we will not know that when our images will be missing from our blog.

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Networking with other bloggers on the blogosphere, no matter they are in or outside your niche, is vital to building your reputation and the coverage of your blog. There are literally thousands of blogs being created daily and among the creation, most of them are by new bloggers who had just stepped into the blogosphere.

Bloggers who have stayed for some time on the blogosphere are smarter, busier and sometimes, they became arrogant because of their successes. At this point, they are hard to be approached, not to even mention about networking with them. Not every bloggers are such but what if this is the worst case scenario happening to you or maybe you see people more experienced than you harder to approach?

False Impression On New Bloggers

This guide, as understood from the title, works for those who are facing the problems above and all the bloggers out there looking to improve their blogging peers network.

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What we normally link new bloggers with are the following:

• Simple questions that take up your time
• Crazy over something you see as plain
• Giving up is common among newbies

Think again. New bloggers can bring you benefits that you have never thought of and the most importantly is that it is still a network for you to tap! Read on to find out what are the good things if you network with a new blogger.

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