My Favorite Twenty Plugins for Using WordPress as a Website Content Management System

Recently I was talking with Kerry at Camera Dojo and he asked what my choice plugins were when using WordPress as the content management system (CMS) for a total website. Below, in no particular order, is the “default” plug-in pack that I install when I begin setting up a WordPress based website and why. [...]

Reseller, Affiliate Marketing and Pay Per Post Free Zone Announcement

To assure the clarity of focus to always recommend what I believe is the best for my clients no more affiliate marketing, reseller, pay per post or other third payment payment arrangements will be on this website.
For disclosure the only affiliate link that had been on here was an affiliate link to Bluehost, but as [...]

Temporary Landing Page for SEO Jumpstart

It will often take a month or two or more after you get your domain name before you will have your final website. And it is not unusual for another month our two after that before your site is indexed. But as I have written before you can use that time to get your [...]

New Client Website – The Something Blue Shoppe

We just completed another social media dialog website for The Something Blue Shoppe, a full service bridal and prom salon located in Hartselle Alabama.
The salon wanted all the advantages that goes along with our all WordPress based websites, including:

Easy do it yourself content additions, upgrades, and site maintenance.
Complete automatic interaction and cross posting with Facebook [...]

“Socializing” with your website visitors works! A Bottom Line Income Increase from using Social Media

The words “conversion” and “conversation” seem very similar to me. Plus I have never experienced converting anyone from a lead to a client without having a conversation. So if you can give your website the ability to engage in “conversation” or a dialog with site visitors you should have more conversions and increased [...]

SEO Gone Wild in Texas – UPDATED below

Such is the situation in the race for the Texas governor’s office. But, what is the website for the campaign for Texas governor doing that is causing the uproar and that help us in our own efforts to get higher search ranking on Google? It is more than keywords, it is auto-generated keyword stuffing [...]

A Client Shares – How Our WordPress Based Websites Actually Increased His Business

Don Samples of Midnight Magic Videography in Knoxville TN just sent me a note recounting his satisfaction and success from using our website. I really like that we were able to help his success, but before I share his experience I need to tell you a little about how we began.
About five months ago [...]

Free Blog Websites Cost You a Lot

Well over half the websites I come across can host their own free blog, but instead chose to use a different website like Blogspot, putting their best marketing content on a different business’ website. Be kind to yourself and your business, keep your best content on your own site. (Photographers particularly need to consider [...]

Bludomain and the new Kertesz2 – like peanut butter and chocolate together for an SEO treat

Nothing makes Bludomain sites work Google (and other search engines) better than Kertesz2. We are offering a special opportunity to all current Bludomain site owners – we have decided to offer a $50 savings on Kertesz2 to all current Bludomain owners.
If you want to see what one Bludomain user has already done with Kertesz2 and [...]

Photographer’s Bludomain Website Moves Up To “Top Ten” Organic Search Results in Less Than 30 Days

A few weeks ago we began an effort to move a client’s internet presence up to the top ten Google results. And reduce their monthly expense. I blogged some about the big increase in SEO score we gained for the site last month it in this post
SEO that works! Now, less than 30 days [...]

Introducing the new Kertesz2 with limited time savings

Announcing release of Kertesz2 our new WordPress based full dialog website for Professional Photographers. Featuring an easy to configure landing page and impressive dynamic image content gallery Kertesz2 offers style and ease of use. Kertesz2 is an excellent full featured stand alone website, or ideal companion configured to enhance and increase the search rank [...]

Measuring and Improving your Social Media Impact

As Web 2.0 evolves to returns the internet to its social media roots, albeit with great advancements, interconnectedness and opportunity, it is useful to try to get an idea how well you are doing. After all, the first step towards improving is measurement.
Fortunately Google has a tool, wouldn’t you know it . [...]

Building a new website and domain? Replace your temporary landing page with a simple WordPress LAUNCH page for SEO and SEM jumpstart.

When starting a new domain name and related website I like to use a simple WordPress blog as the landing page. This makes the old style landing page more of a launch page. Often typical practice has been just to put up a single static HTML page announcing the coming website. In some [...]

Monthly Facebook Visits Overtake MSN, Nearing Google and Yahoo

Because it shows how important Facebook and Twitter are becoming to presenting your business/services on the internet I meant to get this published a few days ago. Sorry for the delay.
Even if you have already noted the article from TechCrunch sharing how Facebook continues to grow and is on the verge of eclipsing the [...]

Santa Fe Trail Jewelry, another all WordPress e-Commerce website

While we were working on the new TrollbeadsTrail website, the store owner was also contemplating making changes to the website for her long time southwestern jewelry and accessories shop … Santa Fe Trail Jewelry. Once she saw how good the Trollbeads site looked and started adding content to it … experiencing its ease [...]

Front Page Guarantee for Google Yahoo and MSN Placement – SCAM

The email quoted below was forwarded to me by a client wondering if it was legitimate. He asked how a company could guarantee front page search page results placement.
There are some ways it can be done, and you can do any of them yourself if you want to.
1) Bid high enough on the Adwords [...]

How to choose the right content keywords for maximum organic search traffic

Wouldn’t be nice to know what words/phrases get the most search engine traffic for your competitors?
One of the problems with maximizing your organic search results traffic is that it is difficult to know what words or phrases will increase your traffic. But having an insight into what gets the most search traffic for your [...]

Brand New Tennessee Wedding and Events Specialists Association (TWESA) Website

What could be better than putting all the content of a non-profit professional wedding association, resource directory, members’ information together with advice, tips and info for people planning a wedding or event altogether in a WordPress based web/blogsite? Well for the ease of site owner’s maintenance and future additions or the search engine marketing [...]

“Wedding Professional Success” is changing to “Internet Marketing Success for Professionals”

It is mostly the site name that is changing.  The rest of it is taking what I have helped pioneer for wedding professionals websites and internet marketing  and sharing it with other small business professionals that also want to increase their internet marketing effectiveness and improve their income.  I have really grown tired of seeing [...]

The internet became popular because it was (as it is now) a social network

At this point in time with so much of our business and income being derived from the internet, it is easy to forget that what made the internet popular was its inherent nature as a social network.
In 1993 when I put my first business webpage on the internet I was getting lots of flame [...]

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