WordPress Websites Done Badly

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I tell people the virtues of getting a website built in WordPress, the ever increasing popular blogging platform, all the time. Now, WordPress is an open source platform, you can get a basic template for free. There is a huge community behind it, developing and supporting it and you can get a basic blog with [...]

Google ‘Business Centre’ has just become ‘Google Places’.

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Google ‘Business Centre’ has just become ‘Google Places’ with an upgrade too. There’s a huge shift to thinking “local” and helping business connect with their audience. More people than ever are using the search engines to find the business they want locally and hey, that makes sense. Its how people are using the search engines [...]

Social Media Marketing – Will It REALLY Help Your Business?

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And the next big question is how? I look at Social Media Marketing in two ways. One I call the hard wired and the other is the soft wired. Let’s just focus on the 2 biggie social media marketing platforms – Twitter and FaceBook and how this hard wired and soft wired concept impacts them. [...]

Is Your Website Side Bar “Working” For You?

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We’re already well into 2010 so a good time for you to do a website review. Let’s focus specifically on your sidebar. Is Your Side Bar Working For You? To make it easy to see your different options I’ve done a video showcasing what others are doing. Your 2010 Sidebar Check-list and WordPress Toys For [...]

WordPress 2.9.1 Fix Is Out

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I made a post on the 29th December raving about the new WordPress 2.9 update. The two new features that stood out for me was the great new Image Editing feature along with the Trash Bin (no more problems with accidentally deleting posts or pages). What you probably didn’t know was version 2.9 of WordPress [...]

New Years Eve Site Soars Up The Search Engine Charts

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Just a quick update on a site and how, just in one week it has soared up the charts. This was a domain I bought a week before last new years eve. The plan was to generate a heap of traffic and build a list. I used some PC software to build the site in [...]

WordPress 2.9 Is Available

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It has been for about a week or so. If you visit WordPress.org you will notice that the classic blue download button now says “Download WordPress 2.9?. This is a major upgrade, and brings some really cool new features, including: Trash bin (no more problems with accidentally deleting posts or pages) Built-in image editor (this [...]

Love WordPress, and the iPhone and WordPress

Love WordPress, and the iPhone and WordPress

On the train with my wife on our way up to the city to do some Xmas retail therapy. Just love technology. Decided to check out the App’s on my iPhone and noticed the WordPress App needed updating (haven’t used it for a while) and within 30 seconds I was making a post direct to [...]

Triple Your Traffic But Halve the Time You Do It In.

Triple Your Traffic But Halve the Time You Do It In.

Sorry to post so many tests but we’re going hard for our Smarter Website clients. We don’t do all our tests “live” but sometimes you just need to. Being a Professional or Small Business Owner means you end up working twice as many hours and twice as hard so who’s got the time to leverage [...]

Don’t Do This Classic “I’m Gonna Get a Truckload Of Spam” Mistake!

Don’t Do This Classic “I’m Gonna Get a Truckload Of Spam” Mistake!

Just caught one of my clients doing the classic – “I’ll make it easy for people to contact me” mistake by putting my email address on the bottom of my post. Umm, woops! Spam galore coming your way soon. Leave it there for any length of time and I’ll even give a written guarantee on [...]

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