Usually, you start a business, run it for a while, and then start a blog to do the “social media thing”. This is a mistake. If you are thinking about starting a new business, do yourself a favor and start your blog first. Here’s why. Most businesses fail because they don’t sell enough products to […]
Blogging – The Way to a Search Engine’s Heart?
Let’s look at blogs from an SEO perspective. Think about it – a blog is one of the most effective ways to publish and organize content online. Not only can a business blog be a great way to lay content out for visitors without having to clutter the main product or service pages of the […]
Best 10 Blogging Articles at MMO Social Network
Today is Tuesday and that means that we are going to have our weekly round up. If you would like your article to be featured here then be sure to submit it to MMO social network. All of the articles here and much more can be found at MMO, join us and you might be […]
The Downside of List Posts
If you just started your blog like me, you will notice that everyone who is writing about blogging will tell you that list posts are the most popular of them all. And they are right. Even in the short life of my own blog my list posts were the most succesful. Blogs like smashing magazine […]
Boost Your Blog Traffic With Google Trends
Google Trends is to blogs as drinking a cup of expresso coffee loaded with sugar is to the human body. A short, sweet, cheap thrill. Sunday morning I wrote an article about Chelsea Clinton’s wedding. As an afterthought, I checked Google Trends looking for significant keywords to include or tag my post with. Once found, […]
3 WordPress Plugins to Use When Doing Maintenance
Nobody can sit back and relax forever after creating a blog. You have to periodically upgrade its plugins and themes. Sometimes the total installation, which means WordPress, needs to be upgraded. Sometimes you just want to make some modification in your theme, add a few extra functionality to your blog or change your CSS. While you’re doing this, you wouldn’t want your visitors to get distracted. How do you let your visitors know that the site is undergoing maintenance?