After the Deadline – Firefox and Chrome Spell, Grammar and Style Checker

If your activities or work include filling out forms online using a web-browser, and you are not already using After the Deadline (AtD), you should consider giving it a try. After the Deadline is a language checker for the web with: Contextual Spell Checking Advanced Style … [Read more...]

Happy New Year and Happy New Decade

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Migrating from Blogger to WordPress in 7 Steps While Keeping Subscribers and Search Results (UPDATED)

WordPress Blogger import

It is easy to move the content of a Blogger blog into WordPress. But that is just the first part of moving your blog. You should really want to move all the benefits of your Blogspot blog to your new WordPress blog. This is particularly true for many photographers who have Bludomain … [Read more...]

Installing WordPress on Bludomain hosting. A step by step illustrated guide.

Step 1 installing WordPress on Bludomain

There is much to like about Bludomain websites, they are attractive and well priced, but this article deals with how to put the free self-hosted version of WordPress on your existing Bludomain hosting account. All the screen captures and instructions below are from a recent Bludomain … [Read more...]

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. … [Read more...]

Are you suffering from blogging fatigue

blog-help

Do feel almost totally unmotivated to make another post to your blog? Does it seem like anything is better than blogging? Did you start blogging with enthusiasm and are now afraid that your blog is dieing? There are a lot of thoughts about this and some time we all experience … [Read more...]

Blogging advice wrap-up

This is the final (for now) post on how to blog. Your website's blog can make a huge difference in your on-line success, increasing your search engine result page rank, visitor traffic and presenting you as an expert in your field. Here are a few other helpful perspectives. In … [Read more...]

Yet Another Blogging Resolution, use your blog for “look forward” marketing

I think too often we tend to look at the past when creating blog posts. For the New Year I will try to use my blogging to explore potentially emerging market segments. What I mean is that blogs are supposed to be a dialog with our site visitors and too often we don't risk advancing … [Read more...]

Another New Year’s Blogging Resolution, details details details

Be more explicit! Totally explicit! As I look back through my search engine referrals and the terms that brought them, I repeatedly find that it is the details and specifics that are very important. So put all the details in the blog post. In the "old days" (circa 1996) … [Read more...]

A New Year’s Blogging Resolution

As I read through my own blogging, and that of other wedding professionals of all walks, I see that I/we need to makes some changes for the New Year. PROMOTE YOURSELF! Use at least 10%-20% of your posts to: Share your solutions. Stress your benefits. Promote your business. Illustrate … [Read more...]