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When you find a blog you enjoy reading then subscribing to it in a reader such as Google Reader, will make sure you don’t miss any posts written by that blogger. It also means you don’t have to remember to visit it again to see if anything new has been published. Using a reader will…
Having been using WordPress for a few years now, I’ve tried out various plugins to enhance the site (if you’re not sure what a plugin is, you can read this post which explains it for you). Some have been better than others (one even led to my Forty First website being hacked!), but there are…
A few weeks ago, we carried out the mammoth task of changing the permalinks on this WordPress blog. If you’re not sure what a permalink is, then basically it’s the format of the urls of the blog posts, basically how the blog urls are structured. The permalinks of this blog were rather clunky, as when…
In our very first webinar last month, we demonstrated 8 Google Tools and how they can help you improve your web marketing and ease processes in your business (if you’ve not viewed the slides, you can see them here). One of those tools was Feedburner, which is really useful for those of you who blog…
Strangely, this is something we haven’t really covered in depth on Savvy Marketers but it’s a question we get asked quite frequently, so I thought I’d share my thoughts on the subject. There are 5 mainstream blogging platforms, which include: WordPress (there are 2 versions, a self-hosted and a free, hosted) Typepad (also has 2…
When I (Louise) first started blogging back in 2007, it was with great enthusiasm but very little forward planning. I blogged about whatever popped into my head that day and only published posts once a week or so. By the time Sam and I got together and started blogging for Savvy Marketers in 2008, we…
If you’re a bit like us and blog regularly, then you’ll have learnt that there’s certain etiquette when it comes to building your blog and looking after your community, a bit like good manners in the social networks. We’ve both learnt over the years how to respond to those who take the time to comment…
