Blogging is one of the most popular activities online these days and the lines are becoming blurred between social media, social bookmarking and traditional blogging. There are bookmarking sites like Tumblr that allow ‘blog’ entries and there has been a suggestion that Facebook incorporate a blog feature as well. I see nothing wrong with [...]
There’s an interesting question. Blogging – is it a part of SEO or a part of marketing? Either, both, neither? Take your pick because you’re probably right. Blogging is what you want it to be. If you use a common sense approach then your answer should be both – and your approach should be to [...]
With social media marketing starting to get a full head of steam, 2010 may well be the year of the business blog. Why? Blogs provide a simple yet effective means of communicating with others – they also provide a great link into the arena of social media marketing.
Twitter and Facebook are two sites that [...]
It may be Christmas and you may be wanting to get away for a week or so, but what about your regular blogging routine? If you’re a WordPress user then never fear, WordPress to the rescue.
One of the least used functions inside WordPress is the scheduling feature. This allows you to write as many posts [...]
WordPress is by far the most popular blogging platform in use today – especially for self hosted blogs. If I do have an issue with the software it is the constant need to update or upgrade. It seems that every month there is an upgrade or update that needs to be done. Do you update [...]
With Twitter, probably the fastest growing medium online at present, it may be time to consider integrating it with a micro blogging program on your sites. Micro blogging sits somewhere between a standard blog post of 250 words or more and a Tweet of 140 characters. Some sites now include both full blog posts with [...]
Although I have placed this under the blogging category it holds true for all websites. However, I think bloggers are far more guilty of this SEO sin than most webmasters, possibly because it is so much easier to create and delete content on a blog. Deleting content is one sure way of killing your reputation [...]
Free blogging sites such as Blogger and WordPress have their place online but they are really for amateurs and not for professional businesses. The closure of Geocities is one example of where a ‘free’ situation can eventually cost a business. I admit that Geocities is not a blog host, but I do know many people [...]
There are many different forms of content. You generate your own, you can have others generate content for you (ghost writing and guest writing); there is user generated content (comments left on blog posts); and user initiated content.
For many business blogs, the last of those could be your most important. User initiated content is content [...]
Do you use free themes in either your website or blog? There are literally thousands of free WordPress themes available and while 99% of them are quite safe to use, there is that little minority that could be harming your blog. The WordPress community is full of blogging tips – just look at your Dashboard [...]