A few days ago I wrote a guide to business blogging, where I covered traffic sales conversions a little, but I figured it’s such an important area, it would be worthy of a post of its own. In my experience, this is an area that a lot of businesses barely pay lip service to, with many completely ignoring how their website looks and works for potential customers.
From May 25th, new rules will come into play in the European Union, meaning website visitors must give “explicit consent” to websites if you plan to use cookies to track their behaviour in any way.
The BBC are reporting today that the Turkish government has banned BlogSpot, Google’s blogging service, over a complaint made by satelite TV firm Digiturk.
I’ve been using Adsense since it was launched and do love it’s simplicity and effectiveness as a method for content sites to monetise. But sometimes I do get overly paranoid about following the TOS and not clicking on my own ads. It’s like when I know my parents are coming to visit and I’m sitting waiting for them, unable to have a smoke in my own house just in case they don’t approve!
OK so you run a business and over the past few years you’ve heard more and more chatter about running a blog for your business, but you have no idea how blogging can specifically help increase your sales, right? This article will help guide you through the core concepts of business blogging and will hopefully give you a clearer idea of what’s involved so you can plan appropriately.
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I’ll go ahead and assume that if you’re reading this, you don’t need me to explain how great WordPress is, but suffice it to say we all know that WP is one of the most flexible and functional pieces of freebie blogging software out there, even straight out of the box. But more than that, the plugin functionality can extend it much further. Here is my selection of the best WP plugins (in no particular order);
