I have fallen in love with WordPress and the affair has only just begun! Honestly, my foray into blogging started a few months ago with a free Blogspot account. I finally gave WordPress.org a try maybe two months ago and I am hooked. Building and learning as I go, I realize that there are many tools, rather plugins available to help your WordPress blog really work for you. So here are my top picks so far.
1. Michael Torbert’s All In One SEO Pack This plugin optimizes your blog for the search engine to the nth degree. Brings organic traffic to your blog site based on your keywords. Just download and install. Let the plugin do the rest.
“Online Business” is a broad term for a plethora of online business models. Some people think of online business as get rich quick schemes using underhanded marketing tactics to create a quick buck. But there are solid online business entrepreneurs or webpreneurs as I like to call them, who have real and viable businesses. They treat it and work it like real businesses. If you truly want to be successful online, you need to first adopt a winning mindset for the business. After that, the possibilities are endless.
Here are four key online business mindset premises:
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The first place to start to optimize your site for the search engine is to do some keyword research. There are many tools out there that can help with this namely, Google Keyword Analyzer and Wordtracker. Basically you want to find out what keywords or phrases people use most when searching for information about your website subject matter, products or services.
What is Twitter? Here is the Wikipedia definition:
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service itself costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees.
As a marketer, my advice is to be visible and active in social media and use it to leverage your visibility, leverage your offline marketing efforts, to connect with your audience or target market wherever they are (and they are indeed on one social media platform or another). So get involved, get interactive and get more business.
Do you have a free blog, hosted blog, hobby website or corporate website? If you are not a seasoned online marketer, getting traffic may seem like the most difficult thing to accomplish. I assure you that even for seasoned online marketers it can be very tricky. However, it is possible to put a system in place to get traffic to your website steadily, increasingly and repeatedly.
Here are some quick tips:
If you have been marketing online for some time, you may have heard the saying, The Fortune is in the List. Lately, I have been hearing an amended version, “The Fortune is in your relationship with your list”.
First of all, I believe wholeheartedly in authentic marketing. And the truth is that, these days even non-marketers, some maybe, know that you can use email newsletter programs to personalize broadcast emails. So just using a person’s first name in the subject or the body of the email is a little transparent. So how do you set yourself apart and show your list that you are real, you want to add value to their lives or business and you truly believe in the products you recommend, even if you are an affiliate?
Here are a few tips:
An blog is a platform that seems to have really evolved over the years. Whether you have started a blog as an online diary to write about a hobby or yourself, or as a marketing tool to build your online presence, it makes good sense to monetize it.
This article will explore some ways that you can monetize a blog. There are 3 basic things that are necessary to have in place before you can start making money with a blog:
When it comes to the Internet, many creative ones like yours truly, dream of starting a website or blog to express ourselves. Unfortunately some of us rush into this, create the website and wait for web visitors to come and when they don’t we wonder what we did wrong.
When I created my first website, back in 2005, using Yahoo Sitebuilder, I immediately when to Google and did a search for it, and guess what, it didn’t show up. I kept clicking next 10 results, next 10 and so on. I probably did that 10 times and did not see my website which was exactly on topic for the keywords I searched for.
