I was reading Brian Jackson’s Okay Marketing recently. Brian consistently publishes great articles on his blog and I recommend you all subscribe. However, on this occasion, it was his blog design I was paying attention to. Brian has done a great job of integrating reviews and social media into his …
We’ve all been there – that moment when you realize you made a big old blogging mistake. I think that because of the way blogs work – how they instantaneously publish thoughts, perspectives and ideas to the internet – it would be impossible to go through your entire blogging career …
I recently signed up to a service entitled Tynt. They explain that 82% of content that is shared on the internet occurs through copy and paste. What they do is help you analyse that traffic. The service is free and only takes a few minutes to sign up. Once you …
On 6 December 2018 Matt Mullenweg announced the release of WordPress 5.0. This was a significant milestone in the history of WordPress as it replaced the traditional WordPress editor with a new block editor called Gutenberg. Gutenberg is a minimal editor that allows you to create beautiful content using a …
WordPress caching plugins are an essential part of optimising a WordPress website. For a long time I used W3 Total Cache. Packed with hundreds of options, W3 Total Cache could be quite overwhelming for WordPress beginners, but the reason I stopped using it is because it was causing some SEO …
Instagram has been one of the biggest internet phenomenons of the last five years. It has become popular with celebrities, internet addicts, and pretty much everyone who has a smartphone. Admittedly, I was very late to the Instagram party; which is quite surprising since I am normally one of the …
Getting your blog to 1.000 visitors a month is your first step towards getting serious about blogging. Getting a domain helps. Setting up WordPress is useful. Having share buttons all over your blog is nice. But in the end, that’s not going to bring you traffic. Traffic that you can …
Your email list is gold. When your readers trust you with their email, you want to honor that trust with a newsletter they’ll eagerly open, read, and enjoy; and not quickly delete. Imagine… Jane, your newsletter subscriber, quickly scans her inbox. She’s glad to see an email from you, and …
Social media plays a pivotal role in driving traffic to your website. This is unlike a few years ago when search engines dominated the realm of web traffic generation. Today, in the era of burgeoning social networks and bookmarking sites, we cannot ignore the place of social media as a …
Wordpress blogs are a growing market and Wordpress plugins aren’t far behind. Google results paint the same picture, as “wordpress plugins” has 38 million results. But what people like you and me are most interested in is growing that blog – 50 million results for that type of search. Thankfully, …