Blogging is becoming an essential tool for career development and success, highlighting you as a leading expert in your field and setting you aside from the competition. Unemployment rates are rising, competition for jobs is getting tougher and you need to prove you’re at the top of your game. Increasingly employers are searching online to find out more about candidates, so having an online presence that projects the right image
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When you download your website builder and create your Wordpress website, don’t fool yourself into thinking that Wordpress is only a platform for small scale bloggers. The sky is the limit with Wordpress and celebrities, politicians and huge corporations are using it to power their websites and blogs. Everyone from Yahoo to CNN, Ford to Playstation, musician Thomas Dolby to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi... these are just a
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The way search engines crawl websites looking for content and then rank them in search engine results pages is constantly changing. Therefore your efforts at search engine optimization (SEO) need to keep up with these constant developments. Unless you’re an expert in this field it’s difficult to keep on top of the unwritten rules of SEO and make sure your site stays at the top of the ranking and continues
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Facebook facts speak for themselves: over 300 million active users, with an Alexa ranking of second, behind Google. People spend an average of over 20 minutes on Facebook everyday (most other websites get an average of 10 seconds) and the fastest growing demographic is the over 35s, who tend to have and spend more money. Facebook also recently became the top source of traffic for entertainment and news sites, as
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If you’re looking to improve conversion on your WordPress blog, look no further than embedded video. Adding video is very simple, and can often have incredible results. For instance, in November of 2008, the brains behind Monty Python made their clips available for sharing and streaming online. These videos linked back to their Amazon DVD sales page, and sales of their DVDs went up by 23,000 percent.
It’s pretty clear that
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One of the best ways to increase your sales and push traffic to your site is social media. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, social media simply applies to all of those networking, reblogging, and linking sites that people use to share content and stay connected. Consider this: In October of 2009, Twitter alone had over 19 million visitors. Facebook has added 52 million users in just the last 12
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The internet is a dangerous place for personal information, and when you look at ecommerce sales it shows. A recent survey indicated that nearly 32% of purchases are abandoned due to customers being uncomfortable with the site, and an even higher amount (41%) are lost because the checkout process is too long. However, if you use a website builder like WordPress to manage your content, you can utilize the convenience
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Having a popular blog can often be a mixed blessing. On the one hand, you’re fortunate enough to have hundreds, maybe thousands of readers that hang on your every word. On the other hand, you are a prime target for exploitive and damaging web techniques such as comment spam. Luckily, there are plenty of ways for a website builder to deal with and prevent the spam that all WordPress blogs
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How to Write Posts that Everyone Wants to Read
Content is king! Let’s face it, no amount of search engine optimization, advertising initiative or blog promotion will bring your website long term success if you don’t write good content that people will actually want to read. Yet if you create a loyal following through interesting and engaging posts, more people will want to comment, come back for your next post, subscribe and promote you to their friends. Here are five
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