In my talk to a group of Internet Marketers a few weeks back, I mentioned using Automatic Blogging to simplify the task of getting blog posts on your website regularly. There are various packages on the market which will do this for you, and this post reviews the one which I bought & have been using for several weeks.

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Here’s an interesting plugin that Wordpress users might like to try: an alternative to the likes of TinyURL etc. With this plugin, the short links are hosted on your own domain… which means they are fully under your control.

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Hi there,

I gave a talk at Daniel Wagner’s monthly Mastermind Even on April 16th. It went well!

As promised, I’m publishing the Resource List from my talk the other day. I do hope you enjoyed it if you were able to attend.

• Recording of the talk: click here; the audio quality isn’t always good, but the info is!!
• Resource list: click here
• The attendee special offer is at http://thesimplewebcompany.com/top-10-plugins-offer/

For those of you who have been doing stuff on the internet for a little while, you will most likely know that one good way of getting your website noticed is to have good Page Rank (with the likes of Google or Alexa).

SEO – Search Engine Optimization – on your pages and blog posts plays a part in this, as does having high-quality, regularly updated content.  And “pinging” your site to various ping directories, in effect asking them to link back to you, is also very useful.

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I subscribe to a newsletter called “Can Do Can Be”, and the owner of the business has recently published a very good guide to Twitter, for small businesses. You can sign up to receive “The Twitter Checklist For Small Businesses” by going to this page Read the rest of this entry

When you get your own website, there is often the temptation to add all sorts of fancy “bells & whistles” to it, to tell the world all about you or your business. But there is another very relevant point of view: do your Read the rest of this entry

Another take on goals and resolutions arrived in my email this morning, this time from a business coaching perspective: I hope you find it inspiring!

And remember : “baby steps” … Read the rest of this entry

You don’t have to think of them as “resolutions” … but without goals for your business, and some ideas on how to achieve them, you could find the year turns out to be frustrating – a bit like setting out on a journey to somewhere unfamiliar without Read the rest of this entry

All In One SEO plugin : all my clients have this very useful & important accessory included when I build their Wordpress sites, and I’ve mentioned to all you the importance of Read the rest of this entry

Wouldn’t it be SO handy if there was a way  of highlighting the content of a website then sending it to a colleague, your team or a friend?  It would be like highlighting the good parts of a book so that they could get right to the good stuff.  Well there is such a tool … of course, otherwise this post would be a little pointless! Read the rest of this entry

For clients who use Bluehost OR Hostgator for their web hosting, here are some simple steps for getting your emails online (webmail): Read the rest of this entry

Linking with Search Terms Rather than ‘Click Here’

It has been a common mistake since the Internet began for websites to use ‘click here’ or ‘read more’ links to take the visitor to internal webpages. Not only is this bad Read the rest of this entry

* SEO = Search Engine Optimisation

Many website and blog users may have heard of the term “SEO”, but how many of us really know what it is and how to do something about it? I’ve been gathering snippets of information to pass on to my readers & clients; I’ll keep updating this blog post as I come across more useful things. Read the rest of this entry

To all my readers: I’ve copied part of a newsletter that I receive regularly from Chris Elmore in Australia; he has some very common-sense advice for all businesses with a web presence.

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Dear readers,

I have just watched a very moving YouTube video – I highly commend it you too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvsX2Kvxg40 It’s well worth the 10 minutes it takes to view it.

After watching it I wrote to the woman who made the video, saying this: Read the rest of this entry