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. [...]

Another Bludomain Website SEO Upgrade Success

It is pretty well established that a Bludomain website alone will never get good search results and resulting website traffic. Having experienced many months of poor search placement and website traffic, and then trying to SEO his Bludomain site to no avail Jim Bendewald of James Studio Photography in Madison WI emailed for help.
I [...]

“WordPress Takes Care of 80-90% of Search Engine Optimization” says Matt Cutts of Google

He also said that “WordPress is a fantastic piece of software“. So why should we care what Matt Cutts has to say? Well here is what the Wikipedia has to say about who is Matt Cutts:
Matt Cutts works for the Search Quality group in Google, specializing in search engine optimization issues. He [...]

Bludomain hosting for WordPress UPDATE

Once in a while I find a Bludomain hosting account that does not have Fantastico enabled, making it not possible to set-up WordPress on Bludomain following my illustrated how-to guide from last week.
What happens is when you click on the Fantastico icon you will get a screen that reads something like this -
“Fantastico is [...]

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

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 WordPress install I just completed. Bludomain makes [...]

Bludomain and WordPress Together! – Special Offer

In recognition of Bludomain’s sixth birthday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLUDOMAIN) this week I am offering a special integrating WordPress on Bludomain websites. This special is good for all Bludomain sites, hosted with Bludomain or another host. As long as it is Bludomain site, you can take advantage of this offer to;

move your blog from [...]

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 [...]

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 . [...]

Google to add Twitter search engine service

Twitter posts indexed and ranked by search term relevancy. This is pretty strong and will make your micro-blogging activity on Twitter even more valuable.
From the ” Google Operating System” blog -
“Google prepares to launch a service that indexes and ranks content from microblogging services like Twitter. Since it’s very easy to post updates and [...]

Americans double their time spent on social networks

One of the keys to marketing success is to go where the customers are, and they are on social networks more than ever.
So how to reach them with spending all your time on the social networks? Let your website do it! Fortunately astute small business people can reach potential clients through social networks [...]

Content ideas for your Real Estate web/blogsite and better search engine rankings

Real Estate web/blogsites can deliver you the highest Google rankings and traffic for very low cost. While reinforcing your reputation and profitable farming efforts. Our blogsites make it easy to feature your listings a posts (helping to keep your sellers happy too), but more variety is needed. But, about what topics and how?
Unlike [...]

My CameraDojo podcast with expert photographers Kerry Garrison and David Esquire on website search optimization/marketing and getting the most from your blog

If you haven’t been taking lessons at the CameraDojo, you probably should take the time to visit. It could only help you gain the skill to survive and thrive in meeting any challenge … even this economic recession.

Created by well known and respected photographers, Kerry and David, it is an excellent website to assist professionals [...]

Are you suffering from blogging fatigue

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 it to some degree. [...]

Upgrade your Blogger* blog to self-hosted WordPress – just $47 – This weekend only

*Offer is good not only for Blogger/Blogspot, but also TypePad, LiveJournal, BigFolio, SquareSpace, Xanga, and others … even WordPress.com. But only this weekend through Sunday night (Jan 4th) EXTENDED THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT, Jan 5th
I thought I was going to travel some this weekend, but the plans fell through. So I want to put the [...]

Why a blog makes a poor web/blogsite main page and a how a splash page is even worse.

Just a quick post. I wrote a longer post over on the Kertesz WordPress Web/Blogsite for Professionals site that explains in detail what a unique “property” your website’s main page is. Why a blog is not a very good main page for a full business web/blogsite. And a Flash splash page is worse. [...]

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 his recent brief and [...]

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) we used to use very [...]

Blogger or WordPress … that is the question. UPDATED

This weekend I transferred a number of Blogger blogs over to WordPress. A frequent comment was that if they had known more they would have begun their blog on WordPress. While it doesn’t really matter on what platform you begin your blog experience with, like a spoon or a fork … Blogger and [...]