Visitor Stats and Analytics for WordPress
You may already, of course – know how many people are visiting your WordPress blog or website. But just in case… It’s not wise to fret over erratic stats – we’ve all done it – enjoyed a day or several...
View ArticleBook Review: Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug
For the first of our Sunday book reviews, I’m going to start with what I have long considered to be one of the most important books for anyone with a website – and this applies to blogs, online shops,...
View ArticleBook Review: Conversation Marketing
Ian Lurie is someone I’ve long respected, even before his Conversation Marketing book came out back in 2006. His Conversation Marketing blog is always easy to read, and he does not waffle (well, not in...
View ArticleIs WordPress slowing you down?
Now that Google has confirmed that a website’s speed – the time it takes for a page to load – is taken into account when considering your website’s position, it’s even more important to ensure your...
View ArticleHelp Google to like you
Having recently noticed someone selling their Internet marketing wares recently and including the fact that Google picks up their blog content within an hour as a selling point, I’d rather like to...
View ArticleCan WordPress bring your Social Media together?
Chatting with a designer colleague last week, he wanted to explore just how useful WordPress can be in bringing together the various aspects of social media these days. How can the power of WordPress...
View ArticleNew life for old blog posts
Thanks to Sarah‘s suggestion, I added the Tweet Old Posts plugin a while ago to cover a quiet time of heads down a-working followed by the team dropping like flies with flu and the like! During that...
View ArticleTags in WordPress Blog Posts
or “why the Blogmistress does not apply every possible tag to blog posts”, or if I was to get all “awesome” I’d title this “The Skinny on WordPress Tags” perhaps – but I digress already. After being...
View ArticleAttention!
That is what it’s all about, isn’t it? For most of us. We want your attention and make use of every resource we can master to get it – Twitter, SEO, social bookmarking, social media, Facebook. Image...
View ArticleGoogle’s Matt Cutts on WordPress SEO
Following on from the earlier WordPress SEO post, I thought you might appreciate the following video: In the summer of 2009, Matt Cutts, who heads up the Web spam team at Google (so he’s someone to...
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