Business blogging ideas: Help is on its way
Do you need help coming up with business blogging ideas? My guess is that after you have awoken to the power and value of blogging as a personal, professional and business discipline, you will then be on the hunt for content ideas. In one of my marketing workshops...
5 evolutionary reasons for choosing WordPress as your website CMS
I am known as a staunch advocate of choosing WordPress as your website platform. Why? There are many reasons, but here I explore 5 that explain why WordPress will help you now and into your future.
Tune up your AMP settings with Yoast Glue in WordPress
I’ve written before about the importance of having your WordPress blog AMP-ready so that your articles can be indexed and served up by Google in its Amplified Mobile Page format. Well, today, I am suggesting you should now tune up those settings even...
How to make text into a hyperlink the hyper easy way in WordPress 4.5+
One of the many changes and tweaks in WordPress 4.5, which rolled out recently, was a new, more elegant way of creating making text into a hyperlink. To try to match WordPress’ newfound elegance, I will try to keep this article as brief and easy to read and...
Making the Wordfence higher: Web Application Firewall Extended to trump baddies
The whole world has heard about Donald Trump’s plan to build a huge, physical wall (not a Web Application Firewall) between the USA and Mexico, should he become president. However, while that proposal has a multitude of problems and will be easy to thwart, as...
Peak Content: Time to lift the bar when blogging as a marketing tool
Last week, I attended the Digital Futures event held in Adelaide by InDaily and mUmBRELLA, to explore how digital technology is impacting business and society. One of the panelists, Eric Beecher, who is a lauded journalist and editor, made a strong case for the notion...
The staycation method for better website writing and blogging
Have you ever wished you could produce better website writing or lift your blogging to a new level? If you answered ‘yes’ but you inspiration has run aground, maybe it’s time to learn from my staycation method for inspiring better website writing? As...
The Instagram algorithm and the little red dot that’s about to drive the pale blue dot crazy
The gloriously frenetic, messy, hashtag-polluted world of Instagram is about to become noiser or more peaceful, depending on what decisions you make now that Facebook has started playing with the photo app’s algorithms. If you use Instagram, you would have...
The right picture size is worth a thousand blog posts: Image sizing for blogging, Apple and Facebook
If a blog post is published but nobody hears about it in social media, was ever published at all? The vexing challenge for marketing bloggers is image sizing for blogging. It’s one thing to produce useful content illustrated with a good image or two, but...
FBIA & AMP update: WordPress blog survival tips for the battle of the internet beasts
Facebook and Google are preparing for a mega battle of the internet giants over our attention when it comes to reading articles online, and your WordPress blog could become collateral damage if you don’t stay vigilant. The two major beasts of the internet will...