Archive for July, 2008
In: Blogging Help, Copy Writing, Online Business, Social Media-Marketing

Find New Readers: 10 Blog Traffic Tips

Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.
Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog.
It helps if you work on this list from top… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, OS WebMaster, Online Business, WordPress CMS Help

WordPress, Drupal, Joomla Winning the CMS Game?

by Scott Frangos

Have you ever noticed how many Open Source Content Management programs there are out there? CMSMatrix.org that tracks and compare them, currently lists over 750. But of that number, only a handful have risen to the top of the heap, and a new study, The Open Source CMS Market Share report from Water & Stone names WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal as the winners.

The report author, Ric Shreves… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, SEO Matters, Social Media-Marketing, WordPress CMS Help

SEO Matters: Mastering Titles in your HeadSpace

Here’s another article in our SEO Matters series, where we examine the Title Tag and how it can take your site optimization to the max.

by Scott Frangos

What is a “Title Tag”, and why are they important?  Let’s find out, and learn how to write them better.  They’re an important part of the SEO puzzle.  Plus, for you WordPress Blog and Content Managers, I have a tip… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, Online Business, SEO Matters, Social Media-Marketing

SEO Matters: How to use the Power of Local Search

Here’s another article in our SEO Matters series, and here we’ll look at how local search really helps put a business on the map.

by Scott Frangos

A lot of “Content Masters” (a name for all of you managers using a Content Management System for your business websites) focus their Search Engine Marketing (SEM) strategy on good SEO techniques to rank as high as possible.  And with today’s… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, WordPress CMS Help

WordPress 2.6 User Tips

Nine ways to use the new WordPress 2.6 for greater productivity and successful content creation…

by Scott Frangos

A new floating post box that grabs media you want to blog about, post versioning, avatar options and more… Is it time to upgrade, BlogMasters?  Sure — WP 2.6 offers some great new features for work teams. WordPress 2.6 was released yesterday, so let’s take a look at a some ways… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, SEO Matters, Social Media-Marketing, WordPress CMS Help

SEO to the Max for WordPress

Here’s another article in our SEO Matters series, — let’s see how WordPress can be optimized for SEO using some key plugins (in addition to the things it does naturally to assist the SEO effort).

by Scott Frangos

Once you install WordPress and start posting regularly, you can sit back and relax — WordPress will do the rest of the SEO work, right? Wrong. Sure, WordPress… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, Copy Writing, Copywriting Matters, Online Business, Social Media-Marketing, Web Help

How NOT to Write a Business Blog

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Are you thinking of your business blog as a Conversation (with a capital “C”) with potential customers? Why not? That’s the strength and advantage you have over your competitors who either don’t have a blog, or have one but don’t converse with it. In this installment of our Copy Writing Matters series, we’ll look at two