A Dream Wedding by Sharon Replaces Their Old Bludomain Flash Website with a New WordPress Site

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Well known San Diego wedding planner Sharon Cole of A Dream Wedding by Sharon contacted me regarding improving her search engine marketing and internet presence.  For a number of years she had been using a Bludomain website but recently found that with increasing competition, her … [Read more...]

New website for Midnight Magic Studios a growing wedding videography business.

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Don Samples of Midnight Magic Studios in Knoxville TN works hard and makes really great wedding videos.  He has been a long time client and I adapted the first Kertesz release for use as his website starting in 2008 using WordPress 2.5. So it seems very unfair that his site was … [Read more...]

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...]

HVAC professional’s new website helps slam him with new business.

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When I do a website for a client there are effectively three customers I consider; the website owner,  search engines and the prospective customer of the website owner's goods/services. For success, all three need to "like" the website. When Dennis Grimes asked me if I thought … [Read more...]

New Kertesz replacement upgrade with complete WordPress 3.0 and up goodness – Get It Now!

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The theme upgrade for Kertesz and Kertesz II site owners is now available!  As is my policy for compatibility, security and to make sure that my clients have every possibility of getting the best results for their site, the theme upgrade files are no charge. To receive the theme … [Read more...]

Upgrading to WordPress 3.0 on Bludomain hosting

WordPress recently released a major upgrade, WordPress 3.0 and many Bludomain website owners also use their website to self-host WordPress.  Unfortunately upgrading to WordPress 3.0 on Bludomain hosting can sometimes present a frustrating problem, it freezes or you get an "memory … [Read more...]

The Joy of a WordPress Based Website

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One of my newer photography website clients (and a former Flash website owner) gets a lot business from Facebook. This morning he sent me an email with this link to the Facebook Developers Wiki asking if there was a way to automatically include the Facebook Share button on his website … [Read more...]

Three Websites Walk into a Bar… to meet a prospective client

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The bar must have WiFi. Now stop me if you have heard this one before ... but three websites each from different photographers (or any service or product that the prospect was searching for) meet a prospective client. Each may present only one page to try and make a sale. One … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]

Exclusive Bludomain SEO Performance Guarantee

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Booking season is starting, it's time to significantly improve your Bludomain site's search results position. For all search possibilities, not just your business name. What would you say if I could promise you a full refund if I couldn’t improve your SEO score by 50% in just … [Read more...]

Black Studios Photography – Success Improving Bludomain Search Results and Site Traffic

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Mike and ElizaBeth Black of Black Studios are always working to enhance their services and business. So recently Mike set out to further increase the search results rank and site traffic of his Bludomain website (which is also hosted by Bludomain). Mike had worked meticulously to … [Read more...]

Newest WordPress Real Estate Website – EveryHomeOnline.com

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It has become well accepted by Real Estate marketing experts that WordPress is a great way for Real Estate professionals to communicate and interact and network on line with buyers, sellers and others. So you can think of what will happen when WordPress becomes the basis for a complete … [Read more...]

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

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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...]

Another Bludomain Website SEO Upgrade Success

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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 … [Read more...]

Temporary Landing Page for SEO Jumpstart

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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 domain well indexed … [Read more...]

Facebook and Friendfeed

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This is an excellent Washington Post article by Chadwick Matlin that discusses Facebook's recent acquisition of Friendfeed.  And even better, provides insight into the use of Friendfeed and how Facebook may use its advantage, the ability to aggregate peoples activity from across … [Read more...]

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

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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 … [Read more...]

Bludomain hosting for WordPress UPDATE

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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 … [Read more...]

New Client Website – The Something Blue Shoppe

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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 … [Read more...]

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

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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...]