Help with WordPress Blog Look
December 30, 2008
Hey!
Sorry to be SO QUIET. I have been swamped with getting ready for the holidays, then I have taken family time the past two weeks—my soldier is HOME! 
We look like a family of geeks. We came to Elisabeth’s coffee shop to visit and the WIFI is soooo good that we have to succumb to the temptation to get online for a bit. LOL Read more
The Biggie: How to “Properly” Exchange Links with Others
December 3, 2008
Incoming links offer your business website two main benefits. Incoming links increase your website traffic which of course means your conversions and sales increase. Incoming links also increase your search engine ranking because search engine spiders from all the search engines including MSN, Yahoo, and Google, all use incoming links as part of their ranking and indexing algorithm.
One of the best and most popular ways to increase incoming links is to exchange links with other relevant and trustworthy businesses. Relevancy and trustworthiness are both important not only to maintain and increase your own website credibility but also with search engine rankings. Links which come from websites which are relevant and trustworthy have more weight than non-relevant links. Read more
Writing for SEO Without Losing Readability
October 30, 2008
Copywriting is one significant factor when you want to achieve excellent search engine ranking. Yet, a lot of times website owners think that all that they have to do is to incorporate keywords in page tags and include some keyword mentions in their articles. While SEO copywriting not exceedingly hard, writing for search engines is more complex than that.
“Search engine optimization copywriting” or SEO, is a method of writing viewable or easily scanned text on your web page which is very acceptable and readable for the internet user as well as targets certain or exact search terms, having the purpose of ranking high in search engines.
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How to Make Your Blog More Appealing to Your Readers
October 28, 2008
Every blogger who earns income from their blog knows that the only way you can make money is by getting and keeping the traffic coming. Without your readers, you wouldn’t be making money at all.
There are lots of ways to get them there, but the question is - how do you keep them returning? If a reader isn’t impressed by your blog at all, then they’ll leave your blog, never to return again.
With them goes their blog’s traffic that you could’ve benefited from if they’d linked to you. Here are some tips to make your blog appealing enough to keep the traffic there to earn you some money.
Evaluate Your Design!
The most common mistake some bloggers make is in their blog’s design. Blog readers not only look for interesting and informative content - they also want to come to an inviting space to read it. Read more
Basics of SEO that You Need to Know
October 25, 2008
Today, even the smallest company uses the Internet as their main tool in building a customer base, keeping in contact with their clients and as their most basic means of advertising.
Designing a company web site is cheap and effective, not to mention essential because the world wide web is the only medium that offers instantaneous information access to millions of users around the globe.
Any web developer worth his salt should know about search engine optimization or SEO.
This is the key towards building an effective web site that would get a lot of hits and visitors. A web site that nobody visits is useless so the challenge lies in leading Internet users to visit your web site.
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Setting Up a Twitter Feed on Your Blog
October 22, 2008
Twitter seems to be a major buzz word and you know what? It should be because it is a good way to reach your audience and gain a whole new audience. You can use your blog to garner the power of Twitter for more traffic, sales, and valued relationships.
We already know when blogs are optimized correctly they are great for bringing in traffic and generating sales. That is why you need to hook up with Twitter. While Twitter is not a full fledge blog, it is a micro-blogging tool that allows you to instantly let people know what it is that you are doing.
You can set up your blog with a simple feed that will help you optimize and create the results you want to get from both your blog and Twitter. Considering the many ways that you can feed your blog to Twitter, you can talk to people all over the world in a way that you never could before.
Blogs are GREAT for Search Engine Optimization!
October 11, 2008
Originally conceived to be something like an online journal for individuals has become yet another tool businesses can use to market themselves online. Web logs or blogs are now being used not just for the sheer purpose of writing, but also as means SEO (search engine optimization) experts use to increase a website’s ranking on search engine results pages (SERP).
An interesting thing about keeping and maintaining a blog (also known as blogging) is that anyone can blog. What will make a blog more successful than most is simply a keen sense of its target readership. Of course, it will not harm the blogger (a person maintaining a blog) to possess a few basic skills navigating the Internet and creating links to other websites and blogs.
The Biggest Mistakes Business Owners Make When Using Twitter
October 9, 2008
Most likely the biggest mistake that marketers make when using Twitter for their business is not grasping how it is supposed to be used for that purpose. That misunderstanding leads to a few problems that don’t get them bottom line results like they were hoping for. Don’t be fooled either, just because this article is about a specific social networking tool, doesn’t mean that it only applies to Twitter. In fact it can be applied to many forms of social networking sites.
Here are just a few no-no’s that business owners all too commonly make when using Twitter. Are you committing any of them? Take the time to make sure by reading on.
One big mistake that people make when using Twitter for business reasons (or who think they are using it for business purposes) is getting caught up in the “commotion” there. Read more
Quick Tips for Better Search Engine Results…
October 7, 2008
Is search engine optimization a mystery? This past week, Leslie emailed me to ask why her Wordpress blog was not getting ranked in some of the areas that she specializes in. We wrote back and forth. I shared some things that immediately came to mind. Since then, SEO has been on my mind. Want some quick tips to help you get the best search engine results possible? Here are a few…
1. Expertise. Follow your strengths. Sites you set up must be on subject you consider yourself an expert on. Be specific. Be focused. Keep it simple and on that topic.
2. Plan the site. A good layout for the site can improve usability. But, it does more. It helps your search engine rankings too. Why not take a couple afternoons this week to “spring clean” (yes, I know it is fall) your site. Simplify. Categorize. Prune. DELETE. Read more
Popular Twitter Plug-ins for WordPress Blogs
October 5, 2008
WordPress is one of the main choices for a blogging platform on the Internet today. Twitter has quickly become the hottest micro-blogging application. So can you imagine what occurs when the two meet and marry? A partnership that creates a most wonderful thing – that’s what!
Well, maybe not wonderful but then again it all depends on how you look at it. With the proper plug-ins you can create an awesome social networking tool since both Twitter and WordPress are both strong contenders in the social media arena. Let’s take a look at some of the most popular Twitter plug-ins that you can use on your WordPress blog to create a social power house match made in heaven. Read more
