Multi-Author Blogs - Should you use Single Wordpress or WPMUPosted By: Matt Dunlap in Internet Business Strategies
Wordpress is so versatile that you can use it as a blog, static business website, community, or CMS (content management system). For pretty much anything you need to do, you should reach for Wordpress. Don’t expect the blog to just take off because you have more content then before, you still have to run it like a professional blog. What platform to use, how will you find bloggers, and how to reward your bloggers are a few good questions to start with. Read Post |
Simple tip for blogging ideas - Answer peoples questionsPosted By: Matt Dunlap in Internet Business Strategies
We all get writers block from time to time, and find it hard to add content to our blogs. My approach is pretty simple, just listen for some problems and try to solve them. Read Post |
Google Adwords Testing Lead Capture FormsPosted By: Matt Dunlap in Internet Business Strategies
Google is an advertising juggernaut, with 97% of all Google revenue coming in from Adwords, they are always pushing the envelope of search engine advertising. Their next venture is contact lead generation forms in Adsense ads. Read Post |
The Worst News Years Resolution for 2010 - To Blog MorePosted By: Matt Dunlap in Internet Business Strategies
It’s the beginning of 2010 and already I have come across 2 people that have made blogging their new years resolution. This is an awful idea… not the act of blogging, but the idea that you want to blog more. Do you know what this screams? |
Blogging for Business - The Art of Multiple Blog CopyPosted By: Matt Dunlap in Internet Business Strategies
You just spent an hour writing the perfect blog post for your business. Let’s say you are a clothing store owner and you blog about fashion trends. You sell a hot new belt that has many uses. You just finished a blog post about all the ways you can wear this belt. You might not know this but you can re-use that copy and build valuable backlinks to your website or blog. Read Post |
Small Business Strategy - Where to Make Connections with Potential CustomersPosted By: Matt Dunlap in Internet Business Strategies
Just putting a website up doesn’t work anymore. I don’t think it really ever did. Success on the web has always been about generating traffic for your business. You can pay for traffic using Google Adwords or other advertising channels, or your go out with a grassroots mentality and find your customers. Read Post |
How to use Ebay to Drive Traffic to your WebsitePosted By: Matt Dunlap in Internet Business Strategies
A common saying goes, all your advertising should be free. The reason is that you should always make money from your advertising efforts. Why not use Ebay? They have cheap listing fees and you can sell digital items. They also have classified ads, but what to sell? Read Post |
5 Lead Generating Wordpress plugins For Your Business BlogPosted By: Matt Dunlap in Internet Business Strategies
Your blog is passive for the most part… but you can make it proactive with email notifications. Just make sure they are opt in and the subscriber can opt out. You would be surprised how many people want your newsletter or to get your blog posts via email. Read Post |
Yet another problem with Twitter - People Can Now Make You Follow THEM!Posted By: Matt Dunlap in Internet Business Strategies
I thought something was weird. I deleted all the people the I follow, down to zero. I planning on doing the same to my follower list. Twitter has been a big experiment to me. I’ve been running scripts on Twitter for a few months now across many accounts to see how much automation you can do. Read Post |
5 Reasons Why You Need To be a Guest BloggerPosted By: Matt Dunlap in Internet Business Strategies
Guest blogging is when you write a post for another blog. In return, at the least you get a backlink to your website. In terms of SEO, backlinks from relevant websites will boost your website authority, raise your pagerank, and give you better seearch engine results. There are many additional benefits to guest blogging that go beyond just the backlink. Many bloggers shutter at the thought of writing a guest blog post, because they can hardly come up with good content for their own blog. You shouldn’t think like that. Good content is good content whether you have it on your blog or on another blog, as long as you get credit for it. Remember you can always make a section in your sidebar that links to all your guest blog posts around the net. Read Post |
