SEO-Friendly Blogs - How To Make Your Wordpress Blog SEO-Friendly

First & foremost, search engines already love blogs, especially wordpress blogs. Why? Because of the way the links are being structured, the constantly updated content & much more.

Wordpress out of the box, without a single modification or module (a.k.a plugin) is already good for SEO (search engine optimization). Now just imagine how much better it would be if you just took a little time to make a few simple modifications. It’s way simpler than you think, cost you nothing & you can set it & forget it. Read more

Why Most Blogger Fails: Myth and Facts

Every blogger that start a blog want to be a professional blogger, fact that write a blog is a simple manner are wrong. Why most blog writer fails before the journey ends, why the new blogger fails to achieved their target. Below some of the reason why many blogger fails.

1 - Motivated By Money.

Myth: I can make huge income and money with blog, just start writing anything and put some ads. Just wait for the money pour in. Read more

The Advantages of Blogging

I have talked about this numerous times, whether it is with potential clients, clients or other virtual assistants.  There are so many advantages of switching over your current website to a blog.  Here a few reasons why you should switch over today.

Updates: to update a website, you need an application like Macromedia Dreamweaver.  To do more advanced website changes, you will need to hire a programmer if you don’t have those skills.  With a Wordpress blog, it’s as easy as going to a tab called “Presentation” and updating the necessary information.  When I first started using Wordpress, I thought the layout was easy and everything was right there for me.  It was easy to add categories, posts, and pages.  It even gives you the option of writing your posts by a design view or entering the code for each post, as well as with pages. Read more

Length of Posts - Short or Long

Do you think too much about the length of your blog posts? Do you choose long or short posts for your blog? The length of blog posts can have a psychological impact on the readers.

Many bloggers have blog posts less than 200 words, while others prefer 500-900 word posts. Blog posts with 350-450 words are more common.

The number of words really doesn’t matter, if you have something to say, and you can say it clearly and completely. The length of the blog posts can affect the perception of readers to the blogger. Read more

Top 10 Wordpress Plugins for your Business Blog

July 24, 2007 by C. Douglas Conlan  
Filed under Blog Basics, WordPress

When I first started with my Wordpress blog I didn’t realise there were so many additional features that you can add to the blog. Here’s a list of the ten plugins I’ve found most useful in the blog for my travel business.

1 Subscribe to comments - This allows readers to receive updates on any comments made on a post, so they can keep in touch with ongoing discussions. You want to get readers involved with your posts so this is plugin is essential.

2 Adsense Deluxe - This makes it easier to manage your Adsense ads in your blog. If you decide that it makes sense for you to have Google Ads on your blog, this plugin will make your life simpler. Read more

8 Smart Steps To Planning Your Blog Posts

I regularly post to 6 blogs and because I didn’t want to get overwhelmed, I devised a system that works for me and will probably work for you too whether you post to one or more than one blog.

These are the ways I plan my blog posts:

1. I have a Word document called blogging for the week. This is where I plan most of my posts for the week ahead. When you start this - if you start this - you’ll be one week behind but after that it’s easy. Read more

8 Smart Steps To Planning Your Blog Posts

I regularly post to 6 blogs and because I didn’t want to get overwhelmed, I devised a system that works for me and will probably work for you too whether you post to one or more than one blog.

These are the ways I plan my blog posts:

1. I have a Word document called blogging for the week. This is where I plan most of my posts for the week ahead. When you start this - if you start this - you’ll be one week behind but after that it’s easy. Read more

Increase The Number Of Blog Posts To Increase Blog Traffic And Inbound Links

Are you a blogger of the type who likes to write as little as possible? Problem ahead! Come up with a number of quality posts on a daily or weekly basis. More posts attract more traffic, more inbound links and search engines have more reasons to list your blog.

To have more number of blog posts in your blog, you will have to dedicate more time – researching latest developments in the area of your interest, presenting your thoughts and at times –breaking news. Read more

How to Wrap Text Around Google Adsense in Wordpress in 5 Easy Steps

July 20, 2007 by C. Douglas Conlan  
Filed under Blog Basics, WordPress

The following example will show you how to wrap text around google adsense in your wordpress posts in 5 very easy steps. Login to your WordPress administration panel. To do this type your website url followed by wp-admin into the browser. For example www.domainname.com/wp-adminThis will take you direct to the administration panel for your wordpress blog. You need to select Presentation ->Theme Editor from the navigation menu. Please Note: check the correct theme you want to edit is selected. It should be by default. If not, use the drop down box to change it.
On the Theme Editor page, you will see a list of “theme files” to the right of the page. Select the “Single Post” (single.php). Read more

Profitable Blogging - Blog and Be Read

It does not matter if you are blogging for personal or for business, all you want is just to get more visitors to read what you have written. It will seem that the things you wrote are useless if no one will ever read them – probably it’s just you and your relatives. So the first goal when planning on blogging is to get as much traffic to your blog.

Here are some tips that you can try so that you will be read by many. Read more

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