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

SEO Matters: How to use the Power of Local Search

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 modern CMS and blogging tools like WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal — you get a lot of built in help in the form of RSS feeds and… Continue reading

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WordPress as a CMS: Fifth Avenue Advisors

by Scott Frangos

Fifth Avenue Advisors, is a “B2B” (Business to Business) website for a company that helps other business people decide if it’s time to sell their company, and learn what it’s worth. The company wanted the advantages of a good, dynamic CMS — Content Management System — and one that was simple to manage and use. WordPress was chosen for its easy learning curve, powerful… Continue reading

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WordPress as a CMS: Greek Care Website

In this edition of the continuing series on using WordPress as a Content Management System — CMS — we take a look at GreekCare.org — a non-profit resource site using a handful of key plugins and some custom programming to meet its mission online.

by Scott Frangos

The Greek Care website (GreekCare.org.au) is a service for Melbourne, Australia’s aging… Continue reading

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WordPress as a CMS: NEXTBus News

In this continuing series on using WordPress as a Content Management System — CMS, we’ll take a look at NEXTbusNews.com — a corporate marketing site to get the word out about NEXTbus technology service for bus companies.

by Scott Frangos


NEXTbusNews.com features a features & benefits slideshow on the home page plus static elements and dynamic elements (posts at… Continue reading

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Economist Redesigned to Simply Present More Content

by Scott Frangos

How about redesigning your website to simplify it… and make more content accessible at the same time. Is it possible? Yes, and that’s exactly what the venerable print magazine, “The Economist” has done. I think they’ve succeeded on some key points that are equally relevant for BlogMasters, and CMS website content managers who are also in the publishing business. You could even… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, OS WebMaster, Online Business, Social Media-Marketing, WordPress CMS Help

Mobile Web is Going to be Big… Real Big

by Scott Frangos

Are you ready for the Mobile Internet? Maybe you are, but your website isn’t. Well, you better make the necessary modifications, because if research by Juniper Inc. is right, you’ll miss out on a huge market if you don’t. How big? 24 billion by 2013. Let’s take a look at what’s… Continue reading

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Is Your Website Mobile Ready?

by Scott Frangos

Recent research shows that just Apple’s iphone, alone, is up to 1.8% of the US browser market. Small potatoes? For the moment… but internet browsing with mobile phones is growing — Goldman Sachs predicted in 2007 that 14 million iPhones will be sold in 2008. That could be low — newer predictions see 10 million sold by September of this year, well before the Chrismas rush. Research also shows that more mobile phone users are browsing the internet each month, that they watch videos (like those on uTube), and that those viewers tend… Continue reading