October 2009

In this post I referred to a question I saw in one of the forums: what is WordPress? Given that I write this blog for people who are new, or relatively new, to working on-line, and it contains over 40 articles on WordPress, I have been remiss in not writing one that describes exactly what [...]

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I’ve read a lot of posts on overcoming writer’s block (or blogger’s block) recently so I thought I’d add one of my own. If you’re blogging to a schedule (you should be, if you’re treating your blog as a business) the time for your next article will often come around when you’re feeling uninspired. You’re [...]

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I’ve had two reality checks in the last 24 hours: Firstly, I was helping a friend with something last night when he asked me to explain one of my articles to him (this one). And I thought I wrote clear, jargon-free posts! The second was a question someone asked in the Warrior Forum: ‘What is [...]

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I saw a question recently where someone was asking for advice on providing an Internet Marketing consulting service. It was apparently their first, or one of their first, consulting gigs. The question was full of vibes about how to protect themselves by making sure their client couldn’t take anything they came up with to another [...]

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Interesting question in the Warrior Forum today: are WordPress posts treated as pages on-line and should I target individual keywords in posts? The short answer is ‘yes’ and ‘yes’. Which led me to thinking about how to write an optimised article. Here are the steps I follow: Step 1: Optimising my post content.

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10 years ago ‘build it and they’ll come’ worked on-line. Today it doesn’t. Today there are so many web pages out there that any site that hopes to receive visitors has to be positioned well and promoted cleverly. And the bar is getting higher all the time. Someone with next to zero technical skills can [...]

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I saw an interesting question in a forum this week: Why don’t the comments I leave on blogs get approved? I can only speak for myself, but here are some of my thoughts, for what they’re worth: I get a lot of comments that are clearly there just for the link. I mean screamingly, obviously [...]

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Many thanks to Jake Hyten for asking this question: how to set up the Google XML Sitemap Generator Plugin. Thanks for your question, Jake – and the steps follow with the greatest of pleasure Firstly, why would you want to install the Google XML Sitemap Generator Plugin? Because it creates a sitemap for the Google, [...]

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