How To Submit Your Website And Get Listed On Google, Bing & Yahoo

November 21, 2011 By 9 Comments
Search Engines

How do I get my web pages to appear on the search engine results pages? It is vitally important to get your website listed on the major search engines such as Google because it is by far the best way of attracting free, targeted traffic to your site. This website gets most of its traffic from the search engines who send visitors to our web pages. In this post, we'll be looking at how to submit your site to each of the major search engines and learn what they look for on your web pages to … [Read more...]

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How To Re-design A Website – Best Practices

November 7, 2011 By 4 Comments
Website Design

So you’ve decided to redesign your website. Perhaps its look and feel was getting a bit stale, or perhaps you simply needed to upgrade the version of the Content Management System (CMS) that drives your website.  Whatever the reason's, its website redesign time! Before you plunge into changing the look and feel of the website, along with page content, pause a little bit. Mistakes made at this juncture can be costly to your website, for example, you may end up bringing the website down in … [Read more...]

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20 Great WordPress Plugins

November 3, 2011 By 68 Comments
WordPress Plugins

One of the best things about WordPress is the seemingly endless amount of plugins that are available. There seems to be a WordPress plugin for everything these days. This is an extensive list of 20 WordPress plugins that I think every WordPress site should be using. They are arranged alphabetically, not in order of importance. Ackuna Language Translation Plugin There are literally billions of people online these days, and obviously not all of them can speak English. That's why it is … [Read more...]

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70 Tips On How To Be A Better Blogger!

October 6, 2011 By 15 Comments
Be A Better Blogger

Do you want to be a better blogger? I have noticed that the most successful bloggers online all take similar steps to becoming great bloggers. There is no magic secret that they use to be successful, they all just use they same tips and techniques that work. Anyone can become a successful blogger, you just need to know what you are doing. This is why I have put this simple list together. This lengthy list highlights some of the more important points to concentrate on whilst growing your … [Read more...]

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How To Drive Traffic To Your Blog

August 22, 2011 By 11 Comments
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If you spend time writing a blog, then you want people to read it! Driving traffic to your blog can take time, but there are certain things that you can do to help you along the way. You may just be starting out blogging, or have been doing it for a period of time. Either way, if you are serious about it, you should own your own domain. Running your own blog with your own domain is much better than on a free hosting site. It gives you a greater flexibility to design and present your site the … [Read more...]

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20 Pages Every Blog Should Include

June 30, 2011 By 33 Comments
Vital Website Pages

I was talking to someone the other day who wanted advice about starting up a website. He asked me which pages he needed to include to get started with his new blog. This got me thinking. Technically, you only need a few pages to get started, which you can then add to in the future, but if I was to launch a new blog tomorrow, I would have a list of pages on my 'To do List' that I would feel that I needed to include. That conversation inspired me to write this post. I remember that when I … [Read more...]

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