Your Gravatar is a Globally Recognized Avatar or image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment on post (blog) or on a forum. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums. This Avatar is associated with your email address, name and website link. To add your Avatar to your site is fairly simple. Plugins are available for leading blog software and content management systems like Wordpress, Joomla, Ruby on Rails and other { Read More }
SEO Your Page and Post Titles
The page title and meta title are the headlines for your articles. They are very important to secure high page rank on the search engine results page and should be written to influence the search engine robots first and the site visitors second. Before writing your page (or post) choose two or three keyword phrases your article will focus on. Find a Wordpress template which offers a place to enter meta titles and meta descriptions or install an SEO plugin. Meta titles should make sense { Read More }
Email, Event Marketing and Social Networking Join Forces
Constant Contact’s email marketing solutions have taken a step into the world of social networking. You can now integrate your event marketing to create some synergy between email, event marketing and your social network, offering you a solution that simplifies the promotion, management and communication with event invitees and attendees. If you have been using Constant Contact to generate email marketing campaigns to advertise your events you’ll like this. You can now let your readers { Read More }
Feel the Love with LinkBait
Among the most important factors affecting your SEO results is the number and quality of links that point to your site. The better your content, the more people will link to you. Google essentially looks at inbound links as "votes" of love for your site- if you have a lot of quality links, your content must be good, thus they should move it up the results. Not long ago reciprocal link exchange on a links pages (you post a link to their site and they post a link to your site) was the easiest way { Read More }
Creating Interesting Titles for your Newsletter and Blog
Most of us are not journalists and editors; but today’s business requires us to publish. Yet we publish blogs and newsletters, just to name a few. What are good phrases? What will catch the attention of our readers? If you are struggling for a good headline adapt one from publications such as Cosmopolitan magazine. Reader’s Digest or MSN.com who use formulaic headlines that have been proven to work again and again. MSN has a head line “7 ADHD truths you may not know”. Replacing “ADHD” { Read More }