Blogging is exploding and what a great why to express and brand yourself! You spend so much time talking about your product, your service, health and wellness, personal development, and so on but you often forget to talk and share about yourself. Inviting your readers into your world and letting them know about who you are and your life journey is essential to building a relationship with your readers. One of the best ways to do this is by creating your blog’s author page.
Empowered BloggersMost of my subscribers and readers are fellow bloggers running a WordPress blog. If you are using the Empowered Theme by Empowered Blogs then here is another video tutorial to help guide you in utilizing all the features built into your Empowered Blog.
Blogs are often used to build a brand or market a product or service. People are also using blogs to promote themselves and brand themselves as a leader in their industry and niche. Continue Reading
If you remember on May 10, 2010 I wrote a blog post titled ‘New for WordPress 3.0 – Menu Management‘ that featured a hot new feature added to WordPress version 3.0, Menu Management. This is definitely one of my favorite improvements in a while so I am really excited to shoot another video tutorial for it. The first video I shot was on a blog running version 3.0 beta. So although the menu management page didn’t change much, I decided to shot a second video tutorial on a my personal blog that is running the stable version of WordPress 3.0. Continue Reading
If you are a blogger then you know the importance of writing blog posts. You probably also know that you need to do some sort of SEO tactics to help people find your blog using search engines like Google and Yahoo!. But are you doing the right things? Are you doing enough? Don’t be lazy about your blogging because if you are going to do it, make it worth your time.
Let me give you a few pointers on some of the things you should be doing when writing a blog post that will increase your search engine optimization, organization, and reader friendliness. These aren’t things I read out of a book or wrote down in a seminar. These are things that I have collected over my last 6 years as a web developer.
Warning: Do not install the All-in-one SEO WordPress Plugin and think that you are done and no longer need to worry about search engine optimization. SEO needs to be constantly nurtured and detailed. Remember that if you don’t take advantage of all SEO opportunities then another blogger will and most likely rank better.
When you begin writing your blog post, how much time do you spend thinking of the title? Do you share any of that time thinking of secondary titles? The secondary titles are used to better describe each part of your blog articles. These titles hold several purposes in SEO, organization, and helping your readers find what they are looking for. Continue Reading
If you have an Empowered Blog then you are using the Empowered Theme developed by Clifton Hatfield. This theme has a really useful built in module that is an affiliate widget you can place into your side bar or footer. You can use it with any affiliate program you are involved in and fit banners into the side bar up to 300 pixels wide and height doesn’t matter. It is super easy to use. You just need a banner and an affiliate link. Watch the video below to learn exactly how to use it. Continue Reading
Editing WordPress CategoriesIn Part 1 on managing your blog categories, I showed you a video on how to add and delete your blog’s categories. What if you decide you need to edit them later. In the video below, learn how to quickly edit the categories per post or several categories all at once. Continue Reading
Adding and Deleting CategoriesKeeping your blog organized is absolutely essential for successful blogging. One way to ensure your blog’s success and keep your visitors on your blog and returning often is to keep your posts neatly organized into categories. Below is video tutorial on adding and deleting post categories. Take a couple of minutes that will really help optimize your blog’s organization. Continue Reading
Search Engine Optimization Software SolutionsAlthough there is no such thing as an SEO software that completely dominates the SERPs of Google or any search engine for that matter, they do offer the means to make the processes of competitor research, keyword analysis, link building, and rank tracking simpler and less time consuming. I have not used all that I list below but recent reviews from their users validate their helpfulness. Finding an SEO software that you are comfortable using makes a great addition to your online marketing toolbox giving you a step up from other marketers lacking one. Below, I list 16 noteworthy solutions on the SEO market today.
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