Category Archives: Blogging

How to Install a WordPress Plugin [video]

http://youtu.be/UmoEunnrGUk

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…

What Inspires You to Comment?

Last week, we published a post from Robin Houghton of Eggbox Marketing about commenting on blogs. As a reader of a lot of blogs, I also find that I don’t spend enough time commenting on them, even though some of them are great posts. It’s not that I don’t read the comments on blog posts…

Commenting on Blogs

Guest post from Robin Houghton of Eggbox Marketing Actually this post is a sidebar to the blogging book I’m working on at the moment. I’ve calculated that in the last month I’ve written the equivalent of 60 or more blog posts. Which is one reason why Eggblogg has suffered a bit. Anyway, no excuses. I…

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