Monthly Archives: October 2013

Think Outside the Box with 4 Ideas to Increase Site Traffic 183

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Website Traffic Strategies

Website traffic, or lack of it, is one of the biggest hurdles faced by new bloggers and website owners.

How do you get your blog on people’s radar? How do you get site visitors in the door? How do you get people reading all of the good stuff you are writing about?

I have already discussed a number of strategies that can help with this dilemma, namely in a review of My Blog Traffic Sucks and in another post Is Anyone Visiting Your Site?. (more…)

Twitter for Businesses – Master Twitter in Under an Hour 2

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Twitter EssentialsIs Twitter something that keeps getting shoved down to the bottom of your to-do-list? Do you keep telling yourself that you will soon find an hour or two to sit down and figure out how to use Twitter for businesses?

Perhaps you have used Twitter to advertise a post or 2 on your blog or a new page on your website. But do you really know what it is all about?

For example, do you know what to do if someone re-tweets one of your tweets?

Do you know what to do if someone favorites one of your tweets?

And what exactly IS Twitter etiquette anyway?

But more importantly, how can you use Twitter for your business? (more…)

How to Decide on the Best Place to Buy WordPress Themes 1

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Bet WordPress Themes for BlogsYou can waste a lot of time browsing through various WordPress themes. Themes generally look very appealing and this is one of the reasons that you have probably found yourself hours later still clicking that next button, as you continue to browse through the gallery of themes on offer.

I initially searched all of the Top 10 Best WordPress Themes. I looked at cute WordPress themes (for other sites),  I searched the various lists of top premium WordPress themes. I trialled various WordPress shopping theme options. And I looked at both flexible theme designs and fixed theme designs.

Eventually, I streamlined the selection process by scanning for theme attributes that would allow me to build a site that could function well, that could perform well in the “eyes” of  search engines and that could please me visually.  So, which eventually won my seal of approval? (more…)