We blog for search engines and for increasing readership. Why do you blog? There are many good reasons to blog and I will certainly tell you some of them in this post, but aggressive lead generation is not one of them. I consider blogging a soft-selling medium. Blogging allows you…
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How to Show an Excerpt in WordPress Versus the Full Blog Post
Some blogs like to just show an excerpt of the post and then a link at the bottom of the blog post to view or read more. So how are they doing that? It’s easy! First write your full blog post in the WordPress control panel or migrate from Word…
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Upgrading to WordPress 2.7
I just upgraded my blog from WordPress 2.6.1 to WordPress 2.7. Whew it was hairy and took 1.6 hours to do, but I have successfully upgraded my blog platform. You the user can most likely see no difference, but in the control panel, the differences are huge. For me the…
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The Truth on Linking From Forums and Other Blogs
Okay, it used to be a great SEO technique to actively and aggressively link to your fledgling blogsite or website on other blogs or forums. You could get quality one way inbound links using this not talked about much technique. It was very workable. Mind that I said WAS. Now,…