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How To Start Writing Your Small Business Blog

7th June 2011 By
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Blogging is not just for "tech geeks", it has a real business purpose that can be harnessed. SouthWest Airlines are a fantastic example of a business committed to blogging. Recent research of 4000 businesses by Hubspot shows that businesses who blogged 16 to 20 times per month got over 2 times more traffic than those who blogged less than 4 times per month. And those with over 200 articles got more than 4.6 times more traffic and 3.5 times more leads than those with less than 20 … [Read more...]

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How to Remove the Admin Bar in WordPress 3.1

25th January 2011 By

A new release for Wordpress is due shortly. The WordPress 3.1 update will see the addition of easy linking to existing posts, rather than having to find the post and paste in the URL there will be a menu option to select the post or page to link to for easy inclusion. TinyMCE is the WYSIWYG editor that allows you to format posts, there was a new version released earlier in the year which had improvements and this is to be included. The forgotten password work-flow is also to be … [Read more...]

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How to Publish Your Worpdress Blog Post from Anywhere part 3

28th December 2010 By

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 previous posts, will allow you to email a ready formatted blog post from anywhere with any device that sends plain text emails. Finally you are not confined to your laptop, PC or Internet café to get your next blog entry … [Read more...]

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How to Publish Your Worpdress Blog Post from Anywhere part 2

5th December 2010 By

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 need to install a plugin which will help Wordpress do just that. The Markdown for Wordpress plugin is freely available and easy to install. The video below will take … [Read more...]

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How to Publish Your Worpdress Blog Post from Anywhere part 1

28th November 2010 By

When writing a blog post your concentration should always be on the content and quality of what you are producing. You will be writing the post to attract new customers, excite your readers or express your expertise in a particular field. Taking time formatting your post will detract from achieving your goals. In this three part series I will take you through an easy way to write your posts without having to worry about HTML, the application you write with or spending unnecessary time reworking … [Read more...]

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Google Analytics Goes Down and the World is Blind

3rd November 2010 By
Going Down

When the largest provider of website analysis goes down what can you do? Many commercial providers will be shouting: "That's what you get for using a free service!" but all services go wrong, paid for or otherwise and I know who I would rather have fixing the problem. It does raise an issue that many, including myself, toil with. I consider myself  "Old School" when it comes to the Internet and many of the services on it. As a proponent of Google products, YouTube, Wordpress, Flickr, Twitter … [Read more...]

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Backlinks A How To Guide

22nd August 2010 By
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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 are largely driven by backlinks. Having a site that is search engine friendly helps and I would suggest that any business give thought to why they shouldn't be using Wordpress. Google will determine the quality of a … [Read more...]

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It’s The Content That Counts

24th July 2010 By
Adnams.co.uk

This week saw the launch of our new look website at work Adnams.co.uk. A proud moment for me as it was the culmination of 6 months of work involving many different people within the company. It was also based on a vision of allowing customers to easily move from one sector of the business to another online. Exposing parts of the business to them that they may not necessarily have been aware of. Allowing them to communicate with the company easily and through many touch points. Using images, … [Read more...]

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The easy way to install WordPress Plugins

31st January 2010 By

In my next video guide to the non-technical way of setting up a Wordpress blog I introduce you to installing Wordpress plugins. The three I have chosen for this demonstration enable you to install Google Analytics, create Google XML site maps and further improve the Search Engine Optimisation of your blog. Any questions please feel free to comment below. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4rq4JvQYVo … [Read more...]

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How to stop spam comments in WordPress

18th January 2010 By

When starting out a blog there is nothing more disheartening than to think you have just received lots of comments on your last blog post only to find that most of them are spam! Although it takes time to build traffic to your new blog for some reason spammers have no trouble finding it at all. In the following tutorial I take you through the process of setting up the Akismet plugin that helps prevent spam comments. It comes already installed with Wordpress and takes only a few minutes to … [Read more...]

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