The Web Guy, Online Insights for Business
Whether you are a new Twitter user or a seasoned pro-tweeter, we are all looking for ways to attract like minded people to follow us. Here are 12 ways you can get new followers, there is something for everyone. Some of these tips take more effort than others, but remember, the key is to always [...]
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So often we have that big idea that is going to take on the competition. The one that’s going to pay off the mortgage or achieve the Tim Ferris dream 4 Hour Work Week. We spend time with business plans, we buy domains, design web sites, adding widgets and constructing SEO strategies. After weeks, or [...]
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Since starting to use Twitter a couple of years ago I haven’t used the #FollowFriday hash tag that often, but this week something changed my mind. I’d always felt awkward using FollowFriday, it was as though I was asking to be noticed for recommending someone else. Which would lead to perpetual back slapping and “back [...]
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With newspapers suffering due to the popularity of blogging, online news portals and electronic magazines, it wasn’t going to be long before they started to bite back. Ad revenues adversely effected by lower readership means it is now a fight for survival. Much like the music industry before them, they have thought themselves invisible to [...]
Continue Reading …This is the third and final part in the series on “How to Publish Your Worpdress Blog Post from Anywhere”, see part 1 & 2 if you missed them. In part 3, I take you through how to set up your WordPress blog so you can post by email. Using “Markdown” as described in the [...]
Continue Reading …In the first part of How to Publish Your Worpdress Blog Post from Anywhere we covered using Markdown to enable you write blog posts quickly without having to rework them for formatting. Using Markdown will certainly sped up your ability to post articles on your blog but WordPress, by default, cannot interpret Markdown. Therefore we [...]
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I love to run, for over 2 years I have run at least 3 times a week, always first thing in the morning. At first I started running to lose weight, it was a struggle getting out of bed, but I knew if I didn’t by the time I got home from work I wouldn’t [...]
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Forget the excuses there just aren’t any! As a business owner you need to blog, you need to be displaying to your prospective customer base you know what you are talking about. You need credibility. You need the SEO benefits blogging brings to your web site. You need the customer interaction it facilitates. Anyway what [...]
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After my last few posts on SEO I thought there was a piece missing and that was the how to from all of this. The part most have trouble with is gaining backlinks so I thought I would try to do a quick guide to gaining quality back-links for your web site. Search engine positions [...]
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