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.
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Growing Traffic To My WordPress Website With Facebook
WordPress: Engage Your Readers and Increase Sales with Embedded Video
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
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WordPress: Tweet Your Way to Massive Profits
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
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WordPress Payment Gateways: Use The Best to Increase Sales
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
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Spam is Gross: Control Your Comments in WordPress
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
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Hacked! Is Your WordPress Blog Vulnerable to Attack?
In September of 2009, many users of the website builder WordPress pulled up their blogs to find a horrible sight: it wasn’t there. Due to vulnerabilities in WordPress, their blogs had been hacked, dismantled, and in some cases permanently damaged. Imagine losing all of your data. Your layout and theme. Your advertisements. And, worst of
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5 Minute Ecommerce Website Builder with WordPress
Believe it or not, creating an ecommerce website to sell products online is such a simple process, you can complete it in less than 5 minutes. Whatever you have to sell, from eBooks to music, clothes to garden sheds, adding products that your readers can buy is an excellent way to increase your income stream
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5 Secrets to Writing Engaging Content with High Search Engine Ranking
One of the most difficult things a blogger and website builder has to achieve is the balancing act between creating engaging content that’s also optimized for search engine ranking. If you don’t have great content, you’ll never develop a loyal readership who are likely to promote you to their network of social media friends. But
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5 Ecommerce Website Builder Plugins Reviewed
WordPress is the perfect ecommerce website builder, making it possible for anyone with absolutely no experience of creating a website to get their products on sale online in just a matter of minutes. Selling products through your blog or website is one of the best ways to boost your income stream, whether it’s eBooks or
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