I have stated on many occasions that blogging is hard work, as there is a lot that goes into running a site that many people don’t realize. This isn’t a bad thing, but it does mean that you need to be very organized in order to keep on top of […]
Link Building – What NOT To Do… Ever!
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Link building is something that is talked about a lot when running your own site, but there are good and bad methods that you can use. In this post, we will look at some link building strategies that you should avoid doing as otherwise it could harm your site in […]
Different Types Of YouTube Videos To Create For Your Site
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Videos are arguably THE best type of content for your site as they can convey a lot more information. Why would someone read a 2,000 word article when they can watch a video about the same subject? Not only that but videos, when uploaded to YouTube, can potentially send you […]
Win A FREE WordPress Theme & 2 Hours WordPress Consultation
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We have managed to team up with the folks over at Ready Themes and CodeinWP to offer you a fantastic giveaway. You have the chance to win a FREE Ready Themes WordPress theme of your choice AND 2 hours of dedicated WordPress consultation to help you setup and customize it […]
Link Building With Your Existing Social Profiles
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Link building is a key aspect that you need to work on to help grow your site. Whilst most of you know this, many assume that it only relates to guest blogging – that is only half of it! There are plenty of other sites that you can use for […]
Improve You Website With The Bing SEO Analyzer Tool
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I have been playing around with Bing Webmaster Tools for the last couple of days looking at how to improve my site. There is a great tool that you can use within it called SEO Analyser that will look at your posts and pages and suggest improvements that can be […]
Website Visitors Feeling Lost? Improve Your Site Navigation
This post is a bit of a spontaneous one as I have just visited a website that makes it really difficult for people to find what they are looking for. As you can imagine, I didn’t stick around for long on their site. This can be so frustrating and unfortunately […]
To Lightbox Or Not To Lightbox, That Is The Blogging Question
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You will have seen many of them and probably filled in a few yourselves whilst browsing online, but one question that always crops up in blogging circles is whether or not you should include one on your own site. What am I talking about? Lightbox subscription forms of course! What […]
How To Run A Giveaway With Rafflecopter
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Following on from our latest giveaway where we use Rafflecopter to run the competition, I wanted to show you how to setup and run your own giveaway with Rafflecopter. What Is Rafflecopter? Rafflecopter is a really easy way to setup and run giveaways on your website. It lets you create […]
Picking A Preferred Domain (www or non-www) & Setup 301 ReDirect
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Probably THE most important part of your site is your domain. However, everyone seems to forget about this once they have bought it and then just concentrate on the site itself, but this is how people will come to know you and what they will type into the URL bar. […]
CommentLuv vs Disqus – Why I Don’t Use CommentLuv!