Useful Tips Archives

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.

Automatic Blog - Automated Blog Posting Wordpress Plugin

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Review: new plugin for pinging

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.

Goals for 2009

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

Highlighting goes high-tech

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

Accessing Webmail for Bluehost clients

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

SEO techniques part 1: Slugs & Permalinks

* 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

The importance of “Contact Us” details

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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Link building … and what to avoid!

Our clients are advised about the importance of optimising their website(s) so they get search engine attention. One good way of improving this attention is to have back links (i.e. links to pages on your website, from other websites) – but they must Read the rest of this entry

Tips for successful Social Marketing

Over the past year or so, I’ve been getting more involved with “social marketing” sites such as Facebook, Twitter and so on. I’m still building relationships, rather than actively marketing as I also attend a number of offline network marketing events, which is growing my business very well. Even so, I’ve noticed how worryingly easy it is to lose track of the time that you can spend in these online communities! Read the rest of this entry