Facebook. The land of the inside joke and the silly status update. Where baby photos and music videos dominate. Or do they? Millions of companies might disagree. Every day, they “conduct business” on Facebook. They successfully attract fans, keep them engaged and ultimately turn them into paying customers. But how? What are the secrets to
Dominate the new Google Through Social Media Most everyone understands that social media does amazing things for their bottom line. But what they don’t realize is the incredible search engine ranking improvements you can get through social media! Here’s the 90 minute webinar replay to teach you how, and exactly what to do to capitalize
A while ago I wrote a blog post about why you should consider not dating your blog posts which has brought on a firestorm of discussion, and in some cases vitriolic (definition: bitterly scathing, caustic) criticism. (I suggest that you read that post here before reading this: Why NOT to date your blog posts.) This
Just because it’s tradition, doesn’t mean it’s right! And in the case of dating your blog posts, there are lots more disadvantages to putting dates on your blog posts than there are advantages. Think through your last year of blogging. What percentage of your posts really needed to have a date attached? Unless you’re a
Did you know that there is a whole set of additional analytics data you can get from your WordPress blog that you probably aren’t accessing now? Information about your traffic, where it comes from and what it does while its on your site? Information that’s key to building your business? Like the ability to group
One of the most frequently-asked questions I receive is “which WordPress plugins should I install.” This video shows you a strategy of how to make that decision, plus it shows you some of my personal favorite plugins: (Like this video? Rate and comment on this video and subscribe to my YouTube channel.) In a sec,
There are some insanely popular blogs out there. You probably have heard of the biggies, like: The Huffington Post, Mashable!, TechCrunch and Gizmodo. But today let’s talk about a more achievable, lower case P “popular blogs,” and how to make your blog one of those. Every blog has a shot at gaining a big readership.
It’s the first thing your readers see. It’s how you get those readers engaged and reading your posts. It’s how you get them to go ahead and just please click…that…link. It’s your blog post headline. And it’s important. If you want to write a great blog, with a great big readership, you have to write
Want more traffic and links? Perhaps you need to write more scintillating headlines and blog posts. (Definition – Linkbait: a term used to describe a variety of practices that focus on generating attention and incoming links from other sites and blogs. Some linkbaiting practices are good, many sketchy, but it’s clearly an area worth thinking
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