Recently, I’ve had business clients request I set up their Google+ profiles. Much to their surprise, and countless questions of “what, what?”, I’ve declined – For the moment. It’s not that I couldn’t do it, rather it’s a matter of timing. For now at least, it’s in the best interests of client to wait. The gist being that Google is asking businesses to wait before creating Google+ profiles,...

A client recently contacted me, asking why he has hardly any traffic to his site, and the little traffic there was, has taken a sharp downturn. The site in question is about five years old, using syndicated content to try and draw visibility to the services offered. It’s a site where the owner opted to use content from sites such as Ezine@rticles, Articlesbase, and so on. These sites, and others, provide content which can be used on his...

To make it a bit easier for others, you can do the following to enable the installation of the WordPress plugin “Popularity Contest“. Access phpMyAdmin for the hosting account (domain) you’ve installed you WordPress. Select the correct database for your specific WordPress installation. Select the “SQL” tab in the top navigation. Back up your database first (in case something goes wrong!) In the text box entitled,...

Is this statement familiar: “I don’t get a lot of traffic to my website.”?   If so, you might be unaware of the value of social media in promoting your blog! What is social media? It’s the use of other people (social) to promote your blog (or website), improving its traffic and therefore improving your business. Social media is a very powerful force in current online marketing strategies. In my opinion, the lack of understanding...

Whenever I present a seminar at the local business centre, one of the first questions I’m asked are what a blog is. Such questions are commonly asked by new business owners who are not as web savvy as they’d like to be. After all, they are experts in their own industries, not in blogging or Internet content dissemination systems in general. I received a few email messages from friends this morning, after I told them about a new blog launch....