Web design gurus have been banging on about the power and importance of blogs for years. However, it’s only as of late that folk have really started to take note. More people than ever before are making small fortunes with their personal blogs, highlighting just how powerful these seemingly simple tools can be in the … Read more
There’s always a good excuse for putting off a major website overhaul for another day – the prospect is about as appealing as shutting up shop and kissing goodbye to a fair bit of business. However, there’s really no excuse whatsoever for overlooking the importance of a few minor tweaks here and there that pretty … Read more
Bloggers at all levels always have and always will make rookie errors – all of which are important for the rest of the blogging community to learn from. Some are silly mistakes that never should have happened and others are more sneaky in the way they come around to bit you in the rear end. … Read more
Content marketing – two words that by now you’re probably as sick of hearing about as you are dependent on. You’ve heard the advice of the industry’s best, you’ve accepted it’s of crucial importance and you’ve made the decision to make content marketing work for you – bravo indeed! However, none of the above in … Read more
When Matt Cutts talks, any self-respecting SEO professional listens and listens hard! Once again, the online community has been blessed with a few choice words from Google’s Mr. SEO himself, who this time around has turned his attention to a selection of on-going SEO rumours. He’s not often this candid when it comes to laying … Read more
Some web experts would have you believe that in order to be a world-class blogger, you need to have a ginormous and varied skills set the likes of which takes a lifetime of practice to build. Well here’s a wake-up call – they’re talking pure cobblers! Don’t misconstrue for a minute; putting together and maintaining … Read more
There’s a very big difference between a blog post that gets visited by 10,000 people a day and another that gets read by 10,000 people each day. Relatively few businesses and webmasters take into account the fact that a blog hit made by a person that doesn’t read your posts in their entirety is about … Read more
Get it right with a WordPress site and you can hit the kinds of highs usually reserved only for big businesses and their ultra-complex websites. However, as WordPress is a CMS that’s primarily associated with amateur web designers and small businesses, it’s inevitable that certain mistakes will be continually made and hold back the efforts … Read more
There are some out there who think that getting your articles read means getting traffic to hit your pages with the help of a competent SEO partner. Sadly however they’re wrong…completely and utterly. Think about it – can you honestly say you always read the content of any web page you hit in full before … Read more
There are dozens of content management systems on the market right now, though it’s probably fair to say that WordPress remains not only the most popular, but something of a yardstick by which all others are measured. Technically a blogging platform by rights, WordPress has over the years evolved into a world-dominating force the likes … Read more