From the monthly archives:

January 2010

While there are many clever online tools to help broadcast your tweets, newsletters, blog posts and podcasts, it’s still up to you to be disciplined how you spend your time on social networking, just as you would offline!
The most common excuse we hear from people who don’t take part in social networking is that they [...]

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Getting Started with WordPress.com

by Sam McArthur on January 26, 2010

in Blogging, Blogs

Many of you probably know that WordPress is a very popular blogging provider. There are 2 versions of WordPress, which I’ve covered in a previous post, and today I want to talk about getting started with the free, hosted version – WordPress.com
Setting up a blog with WordPress.com is quite easy, but getting used to the [...]

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Improving your RSS feed subscriber experience

by LouiseBJ on January 21, 2010

in Blogs, Web/Tech

Whether you already have a blog or are just getting started, here are a couple of quick tips to help you get more subscribers to your RSS Feed and keep them!

1.  Make reading your blog easy for RSS Feed subscribers
I noticed the other day that, despite doing some serious housekeeping of my blog feed reader [...]

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Adwords Tips: Keyword Settings

by Sam McArthur on January 19, 2010

in google adwords, pay per click

With Google Adwords being the most popular pay per click provider, many small businesses are dipping their toes in to try it out. However, it’s a complex system to learn so over the next few months, I’ll be giving you some tips to help you manage your campaigns that bit better.
One of the first things [...]

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Are you ready for multi-media?

by LouiseBJ on January 14, 2010

in Marketing, Web/Tech

There was a time when to have a video playing on your website meant you had to have deep pockets.  Even audio involved baffling technology available only to the few.
Well, not any more!  In fact I predict that 2010 will see a huge explosion in the number of small business websites and blogs who use [...]

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Link Requests – The Right Way to Ask

by Sam McArthur on January 12, 2010

in Link Building

Gaining links to websites isn’t easy and is getting more difficult every day as more and more website owners are inundated with link requests – which are mostly automated.
However, it doesn’t mean you should give up altogether, but means you need to be much more targeted about who you approach and how you ask them. [...]

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