In: Blogging Help

How to Make a Living From Your Hobby Website

Many people are wondering if they can make any money with a blog online.  Brandon Cornett says you can — and that you can make a living at it.  I think he’s right, but you have to think like a publisher, become a pro at SEO, and be disciplined.  Here, Mr. Cornett presents an excellent [...]

In: Preparing Web Videos, Twitter, Video Marketing

Video Commercials Online – How Much Should They Cost?

This is another article in our Video Marketing series.  Written by video ad professional, Bernie Day, it does a good job of explaining what you should do with a video to get a good result.  Ever see poorly produced videos online?  Yup.  Ever see nice looking videos without a clear, well developed message?  Sure — [...]

In: Blogging Help, Copy Writing, Twitter

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 [...]

In: Blogging Help, 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 [...]

In: Blogging Help, SEO Matters, Twitter

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 [...]

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 [...]

In: Blogging Help, SEO Matters, Twitter, 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 [...]