Web Design & Internet Marketing
Web Site Design & Internet Marketing
Unfortunately, blogs and spam seem to go together. Whenever you have a form on your web site – such as the comment form on your blog – you are opening yourself up to spam.
Luckily, WordPress has a plug-in that works great in capturing spam. Read More
To keep your readers interested, it’s important to mix things up on your blog. In additional to text and photos, videos are a great way to add some excitement to your blog. It can be your own video or one that you’ve found on the Internet. YouTube is a fabulous place to find videos on just about any topic. Today, I’ve chosen to share with you a YouTube video on How to Embed YouTube videos in your WordPress Blog.
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You may have noticed a 2 month gap between this post and the last one. Wish I could say I was on an extended vacation, but I wasn’t. And I haven’t given up on blogging either. The reason I stopped blogging 2 months ago, is that I came to the realization that I was not happy with my current Content Management System and it was time to move on. Since I was blogging on a weekly basis for about 9 months, that meant not only moving my web site but also moving all of the blog articles as well. The more I blogged, the more pages I had to move, so I stopped.
The process was more painful than I thought and so this is why my first post back is to warn you – Be Picky. Be Well Informed. Choose your blogging software wisely.
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As more and more people learn about the power of business blogging and how blog articles can help improve your rank in the search engines, a common request that I am getting these days is to add a blog to an existing web site.
This very easy to do if your web site has been built on a Content Management System (see last week’s article on Adding Features to your CMS Web Site.) The blog is a standard module on all content management systems, so all you have to do is install the blog module and start writing. The blog should automatically take on the look & feel of your web site.
If you’re not on a CMS yet, no worries. Read More
To Blog or Not to Blog: that has been the question for some time now. Like most people, I have used every excuse in the book:
I’m sure there are many people out there who feel the same way.
So why the change or heart? Well, I’ve finally realized that…
BLOGGING IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS!