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Yikes, I Can’t See My Blog Posts!

This has just happened to a prospect, and I wanted to share the situation in case you ever come across it. First the prospect is using WordPress for their blog. They had recently moved to a new web host and mentioned to me that when you clicked the blog post title of any posts on their [...]

How Many Blog Posts Should You Show on Your Front Page?

Yes that is right Nancy McCord is still in Russia. This is one of her previously published articles. She is back on August 16.
This is an interesting topic for blog owners and I have changed my own mind on this point over the years.
It used to be with most of our client blogs on Blogger, [...]

Blogging Your Way to Better Organic Placement

Although it is hard to quantify if blogging will help your website place better organically, I have to say that from reviewing four different clients in the same industry, blogging can definitely make a difference.
Here is one concrete example, we have four clients in the same state, three of which are located in the same general [...]

June Newsletter Posted

We’ve just posted our June e-newsletter. You can read it here.
The topic this month about blogging off your domain and is that an effective SEO practice.

Professional Bloggers Love WordPress

As professional blog writers, my team writes over 100 blog posts each week. We’ve used all the blogging platforms and even custom applications. Hands down my team prefers to use WordPress.
Our team members don’t like these platforms:
Movable Type
When we get a blog project that is using Movable Type, we all groan. This platform does not [...]

Want to Build Blog Readership? Consistency is Key!

If you want to build readership of your blog, consistency is key, but that doesn’t just mean posting on the same days, but at the same time, with the same quality, and on your core topics.
I have learned this from personal experience. There is absolutely nothing worse than building up a reader base and then [...]

Blog Comments – Why You Should Allow Them

I think a blog without comments is like having a BLT sandwich without the bacon or tomato. Comments on a blog show that an active community is watching and interacting. When you disable comments on your blog I personally feel that you are missing out on important interaction with your readers.
That being said, it is [...]

Blogging Off-Domain Does It Work? Part III

Okay if you’ve read the posts this week, this is the solution if you can only blog off-site. First, based on our case study, we just don’t recommend blogging off-domain at this point. If you can only blog off-domain, I strongly recommend you evaluate organic placement for your off-domain blog separately. If your blog shows [...]