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How to ‘Convert’ a Website Domain to a Blog

With Google seeming to favor blogs over websites with the focus being on good, unique content, you may be wishing your websites were blogs.

I had the same wish about some of my websites that were getting  less traffic than I would like, but before making major conversions to multiple websites decided to try ‘converting’ one website [...]

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How To Ping Your Blog

If you followed the steps in our last post – 15 Steps to Setting Up a Blog – you’re probably already posting.

But there’s one more thing to do. Once you’ve been posting for about a month …. and this is assuming you are posting 2-4 times a week… you’ll need to set up your ‘ping [...]

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15 Steps to Setting Up a Blog

Setting up a blog may seem a bit challengening for first time users.  However, based on the facts that…

 Google likes Blogs
 Google is going to be changing algorithms to target ‘content farming’ web sites. (Read more about this upcoming change at this link  )  . . .

I can say our future business direction will be concentrating on blogs.

Our New [...]

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Why Your Business Needs a Blog

You’ll recall we covered ‘Getting Started with WordPress’ with regard to using a WordPress blog for personal vs. business purposes. The latest issue of Search Engine News  touts the power of blogs and why the search engines – Google in particular –  love them.

From the beginning, websites have been the primary means for businesses to [...]

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WordPress – Permalinks & Post Icons

Once you have your Word Press blog up and running you’ll want to change the Permalinks settings before you start posting. There are two reasons for doing this. (1) it makes it easier for the search engines to index and (2) it is easier for people to read.

Permalinks

“By default WordPress uses web URLs which have [...]

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