Building Your Web Presence for Authors: Don’t Let Google Do Your Talking | Curiosity Quills. While hanging out with some friends last night one of them mentioned the name of a well established local business. I pulled out my iPhone and googled the business name and the city. What showed up as the site description? “Joomla! – the dynamic portal engine and content management system.” Wow. I clicked on the link to bring up the site. When I got home my suspicions were confirmed: the entire site was done with movies and pretty pictures and no actual text on the front page at all.
So what this business has is a very fancy looking website that has no description in Google whatsoever and isn’t viewable from a large percentage of the mobile devices out there. This post isn’t just a rant though, it reminded me of a very simple concept I’ve been wanting to write about: While Google controls where your page will appear in it’s rankings, you have full control over your site’s description in those search results. Let’s take a look at indie author Julia Crane’s website again.
Art of Blog — The Art of How to Start and Run a Blog. 28 Content Revenue Sharing Sites to Make Money with. 6 Tips to Skyrocket your Blog Traffic Fast. Quick Ways to Get Bloggers to Notice You. You have a new blog – or maybe you just want to grow your existing blog. One of the fastest ways to get more visibility is to connect with established bloggers in niches related to yours. There are three fast ways to make that happen: linking to their blogs, effectively using social media, and blog commenting.
As Marty Weintraub of Aimclear Search Engine Marketing taught me when I first started blogging, you can “invite other bloggers to the party” by linking to them. Many blog platforms and especially WordPress notifies bloggers of incoming links through trackbacks and pingbacks. It makes sense for you to identify and read blogs in your own niche and that provides many opportunities to link to them. I make it a point to know which bloggers cover which topics and who is expert in what so that I can include additional resources, pertinent quotes, and opposing viewpoints in my own blog posts.
Every time you link to another blogger you are planting the seed of a relationship. 12 Killer Tips and Tricks for Building HTML Email. EDM (Electronic Direct Marketing), most of the time refer as email marketing, html emails or newsletters. They are used to announce new products release, promotion or important announcement to consumers. Tools such as Salesforce can help you to set up these campaigns. Well, we will not discuss about how electronic marketing campaigns work. In Queness, we always focus on technical part to web designers and developers. I have been building EDM for a few years now, a lot of people labelled EDM as dirty job, because it's harder than building a website!
Believe me, if you're working for a digital agency, there are no escape! I hated it, but I'm alright with it nowadays because I know how to build it correctly and avoid all common issues across different email clients. Alright, cut thing short, the following is a list of tips and tricks, something I learned from all the EDMs I have built and of course from Internet as well. 1. This is important, not all CSS properties are supported. 2. 3. 4. More Followers for Your Cause | Guerrilla Influence Formula. How To: Migrate, Combine Two (or More) WordPress Blogs into One. This is another blog post dedicated to you faithful few who ask me questions that you really want answered!
One of you asked previously what my strategy for combining two or more blogs into one and what specifically my strategy is for doing such in the best way. I know this quite well as I’ve had to recently migrate and combine 6 WordPress blog into one main property for a combined total of nearly 7,000 blog posts! It was a serious endeavor and one that I didn’t want to make any mistakes! For starters, here are a few reasons why you might consider combining properties: Focus – Perhaps you’ve realized that you’ve been a bit unfocused in your previous attempts at building up a strong blog following and community.
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These weren’t small time blogs either. But little came out of it. But as I always do when anything in my business fails, I dissect the failure. Just where was I going wrong? I quickly realized I was chasing the metrics. I didn’t give the readers a reason to clickthrough to my website and seek more help from me.
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To get it, scroll down and enter your email address below. From there, you’ll want to spend some time in the lab. Kick Start Labs, that is. There you can register for a FREE course on smarter blogging and gather other FREE resources for experimenting with making a difference through commerce. Got that? Radio Enso — talking about money, business, and conscious living.SisterFire — talking about making money beautifully & evolved capitalismViolet Minded — talking about the false allure of the starving artist archtypeBorderless Thinking — talking about confidence.
10 Top Tips to get Noticed on Flickr « Holga Blog. eBook | Red Lemon Club: Fresh Ideas for Successful Creatives. 5,867 Words on Becoming a Conversion Machine: A Guide for Bloggers. June was the first time in the history of this site where the blog gained over 1,000 subscribers in a month. To be specific, the final increase count was just over 1,300. Even though I’m posting as infrequently as I ever have, traffic levels are at their highest, and the blog is converting visitors into subscribers better than ever before. I’m not saying this to brag, but to show that the changes I’ve slowly been implementing are having a big effect here, and I want to share them with you all today. If you haven’t been getting the results from blogging that you were hoping for, or you just want to fine-tune things a little, then this post is for you. Very recently I talked about a huge flaw in blogging, which I’ll get to in a minute. Even though I self-referenced this, a few people emailed me to say it’s strange that I am promoting a blogging product and then talk about the downsides of the platform.
Because, let’s be clear, I do love it. The aim of my New? PodcastseBooksVideos. Business 101: How to Get your Website up FAST! A Beginners Guide to Building a WordPress Site. Posted by Michelle Mangen on July 7, 2011 · 3 Comments Remember back in the good old days when if you wanted a web site, you had to hire a web programmer? Thanks to tools like WordPress you can get a basic site up and running in less than an hour. All you need to get started is a domain name! What makes WordPress so appealing for non-programmers is how easy it is to install. Before you start, the first thing you want to do is to make sure you have a hosting package that has the “one-click WordPress install” option. Ready? 5-Minute WordPress Install Instructions #1: Log into your host company cPanel and find the Fantastico icon (normally towards the bottom and a pale blue smiley face) #2: Select “WordPress” #3: Next choose “New Installation” and you will be guided through the next several steps. . #4: Under “Install in Directory” leave this blank #5: Fill in the next few fields as indicated and click “Install WordPress” #6: You’re done!
By default the free theme 2010 is installed. How NOT To Suck At Blogging. This week marks the 6-month anniversary of the day I launched Man Vs. Debt! Yippee! It’s been a freaky journey up to this point. I feel like I swallowed both the red and blue pills in one big gulp. I rarely try to blog about blogging, however I thought it would be fun to reflect on what I’ve learned in these first 6 months. Before we get started, let me make something very clear. I didn’t title this post ‘How to be an awesome blogger’ on ‘Blog your way to success’. I don’t claim to be an expert, however I have been able to build what many would consider a thriving community within a relatively short amount of time (in blogging terms).
And yes… I just coined the phrase ‘sucking hump’. As with any post I do, this will be based completely on my own experience and perspective. If you aren’t 100% passionate, you will fail miserably. Every successful blogger I’ve talked to has said the same thing. All the resources provided throughout the rest of this post come back to this one point. Linked Influence. The Design Feast Blog: Blogger’s Quest(ionnaire): Joanne Molina of The Curated Object. The Blogger’s Quest(ionnaire) is a Design Feast Initiative. In contrast to the Designer’s Quest(ionnaire), the focus here is on those engaged in the blog medium—why they do it and what tools they use. This fourth installment features Joanne Molina, Editorial Director of The Curated Object, a “non-profit media project interested in the exhibition and display of decorative arts, design and objects and those who find our engagement with them compelling.”
Her sustained experience with blogging may help your entrance into the blogosphere or further inform your current work in it: 1. Why did you create a website of regular entries? Well, it’s a bit of a long story. In terms of thinking about a preference for particular objects, it’s important to remember that Taste is rooted in a complicated socio-historical axis and can’t simply be understood through “timelessness” and “universality.” 2. 3. 5. 6. 7. Read the previous Blogger’s Quest(ionnaire): The Geek Girls Nancy Lyons and Meghan Wilker. I Help People Be Successful Online. ART & DESIGN | TwistedSifter. Apr 16, 2014 This Guy Takes Photos of Buildings and then Uses the Sky as His Canvas In an ongoing series entitled Sky Art, artist Thomas Lamadieu aka Roots Art, takes photos of buildings and cityscapes wherever he travels. Many of his images point skyward using a fisheye lens.
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CloudBlueprint: Intro. Cloud Blueprint. How To Make Your Website More Accessible. Posted on 18'08 Jul Posted on July 18, 2008 along with 29 JUST™ Creative Comments In this guest article Chad Swaney* walks us through some techniques and guidelines on how to make your website more accessible. It is a good change to see something more technical here on Just Creative Design so enjoy. One of the biggest mistakes I see from web designers is making accessibility more complicated than it actually is. Most designers think of creating accessible content as something that will take weeks of exaggerated tagging, designing tab-browsing and hot keys for every minute function of a site, and writing over-descriptive metadata, so most people just give up and don’t even bother. However, by using some simple techniques and following some basic guidelines, you can make your website accessible to a wide audience of users without spending too much time and energy.
I define web accessibility as: Visually Impaired: Those with low or no vision. Content Layer Structure. Images. Presentation Layer. 10 Tips Towards Improving The Accessibility Of Your Website. The issue of web accessibility is as valid as ever. Laws such as the Disability and Equality Act in the UK and the Americans With Disabilities Act in the US mean that accessibility is now a matter of legality and not just courtesy. It’s always important to remember that inclusive design is great design – and a keen eye for accessibility and usability can mark the difference between a good designer and a great designer. As such, the following are ten pro-active tips – designed to help you improve the web experience for disabled users. 1.
Use alt tags on images. This is one of the simplest ways in which to make your website more accessible, yet it’s amazing how often it’s forgotten. If you want to write code which validates, alt tags are now required as standard for all images in your XHTML. [sws_grey_box box_size="400"]Eg. 2. Always use the correct header tags in your HTML, in a hierarchical order.
[sws_grey_box box_size="400"]Eg. 3. 4. 5. Your webpage should degrade gracefully. 6. 7. 8. Untitled. Since I started blogging nearly 2 years ago the features that a lot of bloggers included in their blogs have changed dramatically as the social web becomes a vital component of the way we use the web and integrated into the online world. So it’s time to take a fresh look at what functionality you should be including if you want your content to spread and to enhance and amplify your personal brand. Let’s take a quick glance at what’s happened in that time to place some perspective on why your blog may need fine tuning or major surgery. Facebook in 2009 was only a quarter of what it is today at 150 million users, (it now has 600 million) and Facebook pages for companies had only been available for a 12 months with not many corporates using it to connect and spread their brand on the social web. Twitter at the start of 2009 only had 8 million users and it is now approaching 200 million and has become a mainstream social networking platform with real clout. 1.
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