There is a popular suggestion that blogging is great for building links and to a certain extent the suggestion is correct. However, if you don’t understand the concept behind blogging and how it helps to build links, you may find you are spending a lot of time and money for very little reward.
Having several blogs […]
WordPress has released a new update to their popular blogging tool and thousands have downloaded and installed the latest release. Why not? There are not many software programs that come free of charge with unlimited updates. It also helps to be the number one blogging tool in use at present.
It does, however, raise the issue […]
Moderating comments can be a real pain in the proverbial, however, if you don’t, the pain could be greater. Blogs are fairly well covered with anti spam tools like Akismet but like everything in life, it is not perfect. If a comment happens to sneak past Akismet or any of the other anti-spam tools you […]
Chris Crum has a post on SmallBusinessNewz that is spot on - business blogs only work if you use them. Like I said - he is spot on. However, you can take it one step further - blogging will only work if your heart is in it.
It’s fairly obvious in a way. You could have […]
Matt Cutts has put together the slides from a talk he gave at WordCamp San Francisco 2009 relating to how blogs can rank higher in Google. Generally speaking there is nothing new in what he has to say. Being WordCamp, he gave the thumbs up to WordPress as being the best tool for blogging and […]
I know there will be some readers who will ask if blogging is an SEO strategy in the first place. For the last couple of years it has. In fact, it has been one of the best aids to SEO for many websites.
Blogs are able to deliver what most web sites struggle with, namely, […]
One of the hardest tasks when blogging is coming up with a good post title for every single post. If you post daily, or more often, it can really stretch the gray matter to come up with something fresh. It is not just fresh that matters - you need to think carefully about your audience […]
What are you best at when it comes to your business? Many business owners are good at spotting potential buyers, products that will sell, locations to set up their business, I could go on: in other words, they are good at running a business. What they may not be good at, or have the time […]
Making content sticky has been a common function in forums for many years. What is sticky content? Any content that you lock into the top of your blog can be considered sticky. With the latest version of WordPress, creating a sticky post is as simple as clicking in the relevant box when publishing or saving […]
For those bloggers that use Google’s AdSense video units, you are about to feel the pinch of the recession. Google will close down these ad units at the end of April. In a strange twist, one of the reasons is that too few bloggers used them on their sites. The bottom line for Google is […]