Category Archives: Blogging

Before You Publish That Blog Post

Has this ever happened to you? You’re so pleased to have finally finished writing your blog post that you hit ‘publish’ after a quick check to see it everything looks OK. When you’re busy, that’s all you have time for, right? I understand because I do it too, or at least I used to before…

Why Online Retailers Need to Blog

I have a couple of e-commerce clients who are reluctant to blog. Trying to convince them of the benefits of blogging has been a bit of a battle. They seem to think blogging is more for information type-sites or for business-to-business services. But, of course, they’re wrong! Blogs work really well for e-commerce sites and…

How to Install a WordPress Plugin [video]

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If you use WordPress or another similar content management system such as Joomla, you may have across the term ‘plugin’ or already use a few plugins on your site. This video explains exactly what a plugin is and what it can do for your site, as well as demonstrate how easy it is to install…

How are you Treating The Real Heart of Your Business Online – Your Blog?

A blog is so important to the online success of all small businesses that it can truly be called the real heart. It’s more important than Facebook, than Twitter, LinkedIn, and more important even than a static, stand-alone website. Have we convinced you yet that your blog is important? OK, here’s why it is: It…

How to Choose a Blog Theme

Having set up numerous blogs over the last few years for myself as well as helping clients, I’ve come to realise that choosing a theme or template isn’t as straightforward as it seems. If you have the budget to pay for a graphic designer to design exactly what you need, then it’s money well spent….

Fed Up with Comment Spam? How to Banish It From Your Blog

Comment spam has to be one of the biggest headaches for bloggers. It seems that almost as soon as you put up a new blog, the spammers will find it, even if you’ve barely started to promote it. And once you start to promote your blog? It goes from bad to worse! It wastes time…

How Often Should I Blog?

There’s no simple answer to this question, however, it’s probably one of the questions we’re asked the most when discussing blogging with people we meet. In fact, one lady we spoke to recently, who has never blogged before, was told she should blog every day! Now that’s a very good way of putting people off…

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