The Web Guy, Online Insights for Business
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 [...]
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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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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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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 [...]
Continue Reading …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 [...]
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