There is nothing worse than setting up a blog and then forgetting about it – like someone said in a Twitter post, “a blog with no new content is like a cheese sandwich”. Although this made me smile, he is right. An inactive blog is the same as a brochure website, looking pretty but with…
One blog I always read avidly is Graham Jones’s, and his post on using a blog to keep your customers happy poses an interesting insight into how you could use a blog in different ways, not just the usual weblog diary thing. I like the idea of providing private blogs, or even individual password protected…
I’ve just listened to a video about blogging. Normally I would be very excited and would take voracious notes, but this time I just sat there bemused. As a result I am determined to develop my new niche. Since the end of May, when I developed Bell’s Palsy, I had to take a back seat…
Take a look at this blog post Blogging is dead, long live blogging – free wordpress ebook by Marko Saric of HowToMakeMyBlog.com, I think you will find it interesting. It’s all about how important it is to keep on blogging, and how Twitter and other social media will not take over – and don’t forget…
I would like to reprint a portion of a post How to get more time to blog by Michael Martine of Remarkablogger, Blog Consultant and Blog Coach. I hope he doesn’t mind, but it raised some points that I wanted to share with you and hope you would find interesting. Blog Less Despite the fact…
Keywords or key-phrases are particular words that are the most searched for in search engines. Found through websites such as Wordtracker, they are, in fact, search engine spider food, and including them in your blog posts will help raise your status in search engine optimisation (SEO). Keywords or key-phrases should be inserted into four places…
Actually a blog is a kind of website, as they have many similar attributes. They both occupy a presence on the internet, use an URL or web address, need a host server to keep them online, contain information such as text content, pictures, links and keywords, both benefit from search engine optimisation and can be…
You’re an entrepreneur and you want to start up a business. Great. The first reaction to getting a slot on the internet is to get a website. Wrong! Why wrong? This is because websites are notoriously expensive things! How much cash do you have? I suggest you should have a good think before you go…
I read somewhere that small businesses really ought to spend 40% of their time doing marketing if they want to survive. 40%! That’s quite a lot, especially if you’re a sole trader or only have a few employees, but if you think about it, a lot of what you do would be already considered as…
I’m going to put forward a concept that has revolutionalised the internet world during 2009. Start thinking in questions! Why? There’s a question. Google constantly researches into how it can provide a better service for its customers (in fact, how it can make more money), and it has found out that people are now thinking…
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