Small Business Marketing Services

If you are considering setting up a website, a content management system should be on your list of “must have” items. Content management systems (CMS) allow you to add, modify and delete content without contacting your web designer or learning HTML. WordPress is one of the best CMS software platforms for designing, building and managing [...]

My boss wants me to blog for him. He is basically under the opinion that if he reads my post, then he approved it, it should go under his name. What is your feeling on this? My own preference is that if you aren’t going to write your own stuff, why bother having a “blog” [...]

In response to my last post on marketing a blog, a reader asks: What does a feed do or how does it work? I went to feedburner and registered my blog but it just made me a new feed… so what did registering on this site do for me? Feeds are ways people can subscribe [...]

A reader asks: Why is our small business blog no where to be found? You can type in specific titles, etc in google’s blog search and on the plain web and we don’t come up. The google blog search said that it should automatically list your site if you have the rss feed, which we [...]

I spent much of today trying to import some old posts out of Blogger and into WordPress. Fortunately, WordPress 2.2 makes it relatively painless. Some background – I have multiple blogs on the new Blogger.com platform. I’ve been hosting them on my own server, not blogspot.com, which initially caused me some problems with the transfer. [...]

The FOOA conference was targeted mainly at ad agencies and big players who buy millions of dollars in advertising and were looking for better ways to reach their niche customers. That said, there was a steady focus on advertising on some of the larger blogs out there – and, in turn, if you were a [...]

What You Will Learn: This call will teach listeners how to improve their blog’s rank in search engines. Participants will learn: Why you should optimize your blog for search engines How search engines rank web pages Why focusing on a niche topic is key to ranking well Key elements of search engine friendly posts What [...]

Recently, Google Analytics redesigned their interface to make it more visually appealing and easier to use. I decided to give it a test run on a few of my sites around April 19, and have been quite pleased with the results.

Darren Rowse recently hosted a group writing project on his ProBlogger blog. I was one of 893 participants who wrote a Top 5 List. You can read my submission on Top 5 Ways To Stop Being a Perfectionist. Here were my top 5 favorite blogging posts from the contest: Top Five Ways Blog Carnivals Make [...]

I’ve been using MyBlogLog for a couple of my blogs and so far, I like it. MyBlogLog is a blog widget that allows you to see pictures of recent visitors to your site who have MyBlogLog accounts. It also allows you to establish communities on MyBlogLog for each of your sites and to find new [...]