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A round-up for April & the Ultimate Blog Challenge
April has been a busy month – business has been good (thank you Universe!) and I’ve been taking part in the Ultimate Blogging Challenge. Michelle, one of the organisers, does a monthly round-up post, and I thought, as I blogged 21 out of the 30 days of April, a round-up would be useful for everyone. [...]
Continue reading...Still got readers?? More tips to scare ‘em off…
29. April 2011
Yesterday I gave you the first part of a list of things to do to scare away your blog readers… but some readers are just so persistent you might need a “Phase 2″ … so here are a few more hints & tips to kill them off! Have a read of these “hints” … [...]
Continue reading...What NOT to do – Definitive guide to tormenting your readers
28. April 2011
Today’s post is Part 1 of an article from the site of a bit of a WordPress guru, Adam Warner of WP Pro Business. Writer Lauren Tharp has come up with an excellent list of the best techniques you need to use to keep pesky readers from bothering you on your blogs Have a read [...]
Continue reading...Challenging my brain cells!
27. April 2011
I’m going to take as my inspiration today, a post by a friend & coach, Wendy Ager, who did a very useful talk at my networking meeting yesterday, and then blogged about one of her points, “Knowledge is Power“, today. It got me thinking about how much we forget we DO know… about life, the [...]
Continue reading...Are you protecting your assets?
21. April 2011
If you sell digital products online, or sell webinars that you later use as part of a product … anything that is downloadable is potentially vulnerable to theft if you don’t take the right precautions! If you use a digital download service (such as e-Junkie) then you’re OK – you can stop reading [...]
Continue reading...Taking your branding a step further
17. April 2011
One thing that’s important when you’re in business is consistency of branding – make sure the style your website matches that of your business cards for example … and make sure your also have your website URL branded to make more of an impact! The”favicon” – pronounced “fave icon” – is the little icon to [...]
Continue reading...Middle of the Challenge
15. April 2011
Hello everyone, well, it’s half-way through April, and half-way through the Ultimate Blog Challenge – wow! Thanks again to Michelle and Michele for organising it… I think I’d forgotten just how dedicated you have to be to create a post a day! Today (or rather, tonight… late!) I’m just going to tell you about something [...]
Continue reading...Stopping “the uglies” ….
14. April 2011
Have you ever had someone say to you that there’s something wrong with a site (or even your site?!) and yet when you check it out, everything looks just fine? Often the reason for this is that you’re using a different browser to that “someone”, but we seldom think to check that basic fact! Recently [...]
Continue reading...Getting attention on the social networks
11. April 2011
Continuing on my (slightly interrupted) series of posts on tools that I consider essential for your blog, the next is probably more a series of tools, encapsulated in one heading, “Social Media”. Of course having a WordPress website (and/or blog) is already a huge advantage in terms of search engine indexing, but why not get [...]
Continue reading...Wow, Look At Me Now – getting attention for your website
7. April 2011
Continuing on the theme of useful tools to have on your website, today’s topic is pinging. “Pinging” your site to ping directories is in effect sending an electronic message asking them to pay attention to your site, and to visit you to check out your new content. The good news is, it can be done [...]
Continue reading...Making your website “sticky” !
4. April 2011
Having said in my last post that I’ll be talking about essential tools for a few posts, I’m going to teach you an essential technique this time, as it’s not an actual tool – but still very important for your website – whether it’s a WordPress website or not! The technique is one I call [...]
Continue reading...Measuring success : Google Analytics
3. April 2011
I’m going to do a series of posts about essential tools I recommend you have on your WordPress blog. —————————————– The first tool is Google Analytics, which is excellent for insights into traffic to your website, and where it comes from; this allows you to measure the effectiveness of your online marketing. If you already [...]
Continue reading...Those pesky 404 pages!
21. March 2011
Don’t you hate it when you land up on a web page that says “Sorry page not found” …. and then you just have no idea where to go from there? When this happened to me recently on a well-known blogging site, I didn’t have my normal reaction of irritation … simply because they had [...]
Continue reading...Reducing comment spam on WordPress
3. February 2011
Spammers… argh!! Of course I’ve taken my own advice, and I have the plugin Akismet installed & switched on… but comment spammers have still been targeting me heavily – up to 100 spam comments on some (bad) days! Now I know that Akismet stops these comments from going anywhere they shouldn’t, but I just don’t [...]
Continue reading...A useful tool for links in sidebar widgets
19. January 2011
Do you shudder at the thought of trying to add HTML to the sidebar to show useful links? You’re not alone! And now I can demo an excellent free tool that I recently heard about, that will make this task a whole lot easier… watch this video:
Continue reading...When the going gets tough… the tough get mobile!
30. December 2010
Is your website fit for 2011? It’s just the way we function nowadays….mobile phones (or cell phones, depending on where you are!) are so vital to the way the majority of us function in our daily lives that we can’t imagine ever doing without them… yet less than 20 years ago they were new technology. [...]
Continue reading...WordPress Lockdown – stop those hackers!
16. December 2010
I recently emailed my subscribers about upgrading to the most recent version of WordPress (version 3.0.3 at the time of writing) – WordPress 3.0.2 was a very important security update, so if you haven’t already upgraded your WordPress site, please do so as soon as you can! From the official WordPress blog: WordPress 3.0.2 is [...]
Continue reading...Social Media – why you should be doing it!
27. October 2010
I’ve been working on a new package for some of my website clients, to help them get started with Social Media accounts. For people not yet into the world of Social Media, it can seem quite overwhelming, and a bit trivial! After all, we’ve all heard the stories about people diarising their every move, and [...]
Continue reading...Turning your videos in automatic Lead Generators
20. October 2010
Some of you may have heard about the latest release of Easy Video Player – it’s a great tool if you do a lot of video creation, and the video I’ve done for you today shows a fantastic tool that will transform your videos into Lead Generation tools! Imagine being able to have your Aweber [...]
Continue reading...Using Windows Live Writer
30. September 2010
Windows Live Writer is a user-friendly interface that allows you to publish blog posts to a number of blogs at one time, including WordPress blogs. [It has an easier Visual editor to use than the basic WordPress editor, which is another advantage. However, you can of course add the TinyMCE plugin to enhance your WordPress [...]
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Wendy Ager (11)
Keith Goeringer (7)
Nicky Kriel (7)
Glen (6)
Krissy Brady, Writer (6)
Mari-Lyn (6)
Stacia Hopkins (6)
Heather Bestel (5)
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