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Review: “Lock Your Blog”
I’m a fan & long-time read of Alex Sysoef’s WordPress blog & newsletter, and I signed up to his new video series today, “Lock Your Blog“. If you have ever been the victim of a hacking attack, you know how disruptive, and potentially expensive, it can be. Alex’s new product shows in fine detail how [...]
Continue reading...Setting up Google Analytics
21. August 2010
Google Analytics is a very versatile and useful tool to enable tracking of a host of things on your website: traffic volumes, the country of origin, whether they came to your site through search engines or direct links, what search terms visitors used (if they came from search engines) – and a whole lot more. [...]
Continue reading...To Publish or Not To Publish – pinging your posts
20. August 2010
Hi everyone, To all of you who have a Ping Optimizer plugin installed after reading my June post about the Ping Optimizer plugin, it’s important to realise the impact of publishing posts & how they get “pinged” to syndication and feed sites. The point of this plugin is to reduce “ping spam” – i.e. pinging [...]
Continue reading...Spicing up your blog posts
14. August 2010
With SO many websites available to us now, and attention spans shortening with each passing year, it’s important to make your blog visually eye-catching, as well as attention-grabbing with your written content. I do this in my blog posts by using stock photos and my own videos, sometimes together. Today’s video will show you how [...]
Continue reading...The 10 (Comment) Commandments
14. August 2010
Following on from my last post on giving your Top Commentators some “link love” in exchange for their regular comments, lets chat about things from the other side of the fence: your job as a commentator on other peoples blogs. The blogosphere is pretty informal, but no one likes disrespect or blatant self-promotion from people [...]
Continue reading...How to give your top commentators some “link love”
12. August 2010
There are many ways to encourage people to leave comments on your blog … Shameless begging! The “Comment Luv” plugin Bribery and this useful plugin which I tell you about in the following video…
Continue reading...Rants and rankings
11. August 2010
I’m going to talk about less technical things today – because I’m in a bit of a huff, and although the reason is technical… the cause is someone’s poor attitude! Now, I don’t pretend to know a huge amount about WordPress, despite having created sites for over 2 & 1/2 years – no one can [...]
Continue reading...The importance of socialising your blog
9. August 2010
Hi again readers! As you may have read in earlier posts, I’ve been taking part in a great 30-day blogging challenge – and I’m thrilled at how the information I’ve been sharing is helping so many people. One thing that has come up is that a number of bloggers seem to be missing out on [...]
Continue reading...Permalinks, SEO and your visitors
7. August 2010
Don’t you wish ALL web pages had URLs (or links) that just made sense? So if you’re reading a recipe for pumpkin soup, the link will be www.myrecipes.com/best-pumpkin-soup-recipe … and NOT www.myrecipes.com/?p=834 ! WordPress has a simple solution to this problem – and I strongly recommend… in fact, I INSIST … that you watch this [...]
Continue reading...Make your testimonials work harder on your website!
5. August 2010
You know how often testimonials can languish unnoticed on a “Testimonials” page? (You DO collect testimonials from your clients, right??) Well, there’s a nifty plugin in WordPress that can show them in random order in your sidebar, and link through to your testimonials page – thus showcasing what your happy clients have said about a [...]
Continue reading...Showing just a “taster” of your blog posts
3. August 2010
Hi again everyone! Today’s video shows you how to add a “More” tag to a blog post, so that your website visitors only see a few sentences in the main blog page, and must click “Continue Reading” to read the rest. The main advantages of this are you can show more of your blog posts [...]
Continue reading...The importance of your “Contact Us” page
23. July 2010
Hi everyone, A couple of questions for you… * How many of you have been on someone’s website, wanting to get in touch to find out about a product, complain about a service … or just tell them what a great job they did… and you’ve not been able to find ANY way of getting [...]
Continue reading...WordPress editing made easier!
5. July 2010
Hi everyone, Trawling through one of the many WordPress-related newsletter I subscribe to, I came across a mention of a plugin for WordPress that will make the existing editor (which you have to admit is fairly basic!) a whole lot more user-friendly. Imagine going from this limited set of functions: to THIS!!!
Continue reading...Adding your Facebook page to your blog
30. June 2010
I’m sure many of you now know that Facebook pages are a tremendously effective way of driving traffic to your blog, with your blog (which you own in its entirety if it’s a self-hosted blog) being the central hub of all your Social Media activities. We’re all using Social Media more in our daily lives, [...]
Continue reading...Adding YouTube videos to a WordPress site
28. May 2010
Video is becoming increasingly popular on many websites, and none more so than YouTube. YouTube is now used for a vast number of searches each day – people looking for “how to” videos, jokes, news and much more. If you have your own, or someone else’s YouTube video that you want to show on a [...]
Continue reading...What if you run out of blogging ideas?
26. May 2010
Do you sometimes sit down at your desk to write a blog or two, and realise your brain has decided to take some time off? There are few things that can help when this “Post Drought” (C) comes along: when you blog, have a content plan that stretches for a few months ahead so you [...]
Continue reading...Tips to avoid comment spam on your blog
20. May 2010
Visitors to your blog will generally be able to post comments against individual posts. And that’s great – comments keep your blog alive! But what about those people/losers/time-wasters/idiots **who try to hijack your hard work by pumping your comments full of junk?? (** delete as you see fit) It’s important, due to the high levels [...]
Continue reading...Planning your posting
16. May 2010
Today I found a great new resource in the form of Productive Flourishing – they produce all sorts of planners including a bunch of free ones that can help with your blogging. (If you don’t yet have a blog see “move-your-website-to-wordpress” or contact me to help build your website.) The Blog Post Planner helps when [...]
Continue reading...Thoughts on WordPress as your website of choice
13. May 2010
Over the last few years, so much has changed when it comes to getting your own website up and running. No longer do you have to spend thousands …. of hours learning coding … or dollars/pounds/your currency of choice getting someone else to set up your site. The “king of the heap” in this revolution [...]
Continue reading...Building communities with your website Part 2
26. April 2010
As you know, today’s web is about creating “community” around your product or service. Following on from the previous post about building communities, here are some useful pointers on what makes a community thrive. The five “C’s” : Visitors come to your website for
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