All Entries Tagged With: "wordpress"
Tiny Action, Mighty Payoff: Optimizing Website URL’s
There’s nothing sexy about talking website URL’s — so I won’t pretend there is. But — better website rankings, more targeted website traffic and more sales is very SEXY — and optimizing your web pages for search engine traffic can make these things happen. Your URL file names (believe it or not) can give you [...]
Tiny Action, Mighty Payoff: Optimizing Web Page Title Tags
Your title tag is like a huge billboard telling Google (and the others) what each page is about on your website. The optimization of the title tag is the #1 on-page SEO factor that will determine whether your page or another is displayed for a keyword by a search engine like Google. How To Find [...]
5 Undeniable Reasons A CMS Will Improve Your Marketing
A Content Management System (CMS) is a platform through which you can manage your website through an administration panel rather than through manipulating code and updating the site through FTP. In short, a CMS makes it much easier to manage your website. The Marketing Benefits of a CMS This post will concentrate on the marketing [...]
Which Web Host For A WordPress Blog?
If you just want the quick version of this — I have used and highly recommend either Bluehost or Hostgator hosting. If you read this blog regularly (actually — if you read nearly any bloggers blog regularly) you know that WordPress is the most powerful blogging platform available. You also know that in order to [...]
How To Back Up a MySQL Database For A WordPress Blog
This may be the most important plug-in (besides the life-saving Akismet spam blocker) that you install on your WordPress blog. It will back up and email your WordPress database to you at a scheduled time each week. If your database becomes corrupt, your site is deleted or is otherwise attacked by Internet gremlins you will [...]
Rebel With a Keyboard
We are living in the most exciting time period for tiny business owners in history. Today, you and I have the power of the press. We have both the [free] tools and the [free] platform to create and publish informational and entertaining content to an audience. The Platform I suppose the overall platform that is [...]
3 Websites Where I Buy Quality WordPress Themes
At the center of my tiny business marketing strategy is the content “hub” that resides on a business blog. I recommend using a WordPress blog over all other blogging platforms because WordPress is: Easy to use Search engine friendly Well Supported Stable (Is secure and doesn’t crash all the time) And Free! Designing a WordPress [...]
The Big Pink Elephant In Your Office
You have a business. But you have no website (or a poor one) and you have no presence (or little presence) on the most powerful and most inexpensive tool available to your business — the Internet. You know that you should. You just don’t know if you can. This is The Big Pink Elephant that [...]
My First Impression Of Your Business Has To Be That I Want More Impressions
I decided to count. I have seen the Coca-Cola logo in four separate locations today. Once on TV, once in my father-in-law’s hand, once at 7-eleven, and once on a soda machine at the airport — and it is only 3 pm. Now that is branding. Coca-Cola is voted year after year as one of [...]
Exponentially Increase Your Marketing Reach: Give Them a Choice
Let’s talk about something that will grow the influence of your business and exponentially increase the power of your marketing message. Choice. [Sarcasm] Let’s assume that your customers and prospect are using the Internet and you have decided that it would be wise to begin marketing to these people using the web. The trouble is [...]
