Following on from my recent post, What To Do When One Of Your Blog Posts Is Reblogged, there were some comments from readers who were not sure how to reblog a post.

Today, not only will I take you through a step by step guide on how to reblog a post, but I’ll also cover some of the pitfalls of reblogging. For the purpose of this post, and because I use WordPress, some of this information will only be relevant to WordPress users.

Of course, the first thing we need to do is find a blog post that we want to reblog. Usually, this will be a post that you have thoroughly enjoyed reading and/or will have left a comment on. However, some bloggers use reblogging to promote other bloggers, authors, writers, books, etc.

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