It’s day five of the 30 Day traffic challenge and a couple days ago I set out to optimize for the keyword phrase of targeted web traffic. I’m happy to report that some of the traffic to my website is indeed for this keyword search phrase. This is not by accident. I used the phrase [...] Read more »
Create a Website in Minutes with a Self-Hosted WordPress Blog
You want to create a website? WordPress is one of the leading blogging platforms available. Most people interested in blogging stumble across WordPress.com at some point and maybe register their own free blog. The lack of control over WordPress themes may be frustrating and you want to create a website that reflects your brand. WordPress is web software [...] Read more »
Free Report – Build an Effective Online Distribution Strategy
So much of what we do online these days is managing the flow of information. We have tons of content coming at us everyday from social media, blogs, news, video and other online sources with little chance to filter the content let alone really consume everything in a meaningful way. On the flip side, some [...] Read more »
30DTC – Using Mind Maps to Brainstorm Ideas and Map Out a Plan of Attack
It is day three of my 30 Day Traffic Challenge and today I am working on creating a mind map of all of the potential channels and opportunities to drive targeted web traffic to my website. I’m using a great tool on my iPad, iPhone and Mac called MindNode Pro, which is available at www.mindnode.com. [...] Read more »
30DTC – Tracking Website Visitors in Real Time and Google Analytics Intelligence Alerts
As part of my 30 Day Traffic Challenge, I’ll be spending a lot of time in Google Analytics. It’s nice actually, because it is giving me the chance to update a bunch of settings, really dig into some of data and get some hands-on experience with the new tools. Tonight I stumbled across Google Analytics [...] Read more »
30DTC – Using Market Samurai to Identify Keyword Phrases and Drive Targeted Web Traffic
It’s still day two of my 30 Day Traffic Challenge and it’s time to use Market Samurai to do a little keyword research. The goal is to identify long tail keyword phrases and increase targeted web traffic to my site. I used Market Samurai for about 30 minutes this afternoon to identify at least one [...] Read more »
How to Customize Your SEO Options in the Catalyst WordPress Theme Framework
Catalyst is a wonderful WordPress Theme that allows you to customize your blog with over 800 built-in options. In my opinion, it’s the best WordPress Theme on the market today. Customizing your blog’s search engine optimization options is pretty straightforward in the SEO section of the Catalyst Core Options. Steps to Customize Your SEO Options [...] Read more »
Why Catalyst is Now My Favorite WordPress Theme Framework
If you use WordPress, it’s time you learned about the Catalyst Theme. This, in my opinion, is the best WordPress framework on the market right now – and I’ve tested many of them, including Thesis. Unlike a standard theme, Catalyst is extremely flexible and provides easy-to-use tools and functionality to create a highly customized theme [...] Read more »
Setting SMART Goals for your 2012 Internet Marketing Strategy
Internet Marketing continues to serve as a powerful channel for communicating with your market. Social media, geo-location services and mobile devices extend the opportunity to reach your audience in a new and different way and add value to the discussion happening online. Spending time now to develop your internet marketing strategy for next year will [...] Read more »
How to Remove Mobile Formatting from WordPress Twenty-Eleven Theme
By default the Twenty-Eleven WordPress theme includes custom CSS support for mobile viewing. In some situations, you might want to remove this option, but it’s not clear from the Dashboard has to do this. To remove the mobile formatting, edit your theme and comment out one line of code. This image illustrates how it’s done. [...] Read more »