February 11, 2012

The death of article marekting?

Is this the end of article marketing, it may well be the hand writing on the wall simply

because of the way that google is changing its search positioning.

When you consider that google may be about to change all the rules, you have to think about this.

consider this, what would you do if you found out that you could get more traffic from google than thousands of other websites just by developing a quality process of creating content for your website?

Would you take the time to get the best content?

Would you take the time to edit your content so that it works better for your website.

Theme Development

Creating PHP themes, is it something that you can learn how to do or should you use a tool?

Learning is always a good option because it gives you that first hand still as well as introducing you to what is really going on inside wordpress.

Creating content and creating wordpress themes.

Everything is about to change…

Developing a unique theme can help your wordpress website.

There are many different wordpress themes and finding just the right one for your needs can be difficult,
deciding is the hard part simply because there are literally hundreds of free themes, out there, perhaps
even thousands of free themes, but which ones are really good for your website.

SEO themes, all claim to give you an advantage over other themes, but do they really do that for you?

There are a number of platform themes out there from Thesis to Socrates and even several others, but which ones really do the job, the answer may not be as easy as you might imagine, for some a media theme is the answer because they use a lot of video to produce content for their websites, for others it is a learning environment, that attracts visitors, tutorials, FTP, PHP, Web development, are all factors to consider when looking at the right theme for your wordpress website.

Just because a theme is free does not mean it is good for your website, in fact, often these free themes, have links embedded often in places you do not even know exist, like white space, and in places where you may not even notice them, what they are doing though is generating links back to other websites, this robs your website of link juice, and it robs you of your resources.

So be aware, that if your not careful you could be finding yourself in a situation where you think you have the right theme but in reality you have the most wrong theme you could possibly have.

have a good look at your websites theme, really look at the programming or if you cannot, then you can get it done on fiverr.com for just five bucks, it is a wise investment, in one such case, a friend found a theme, that was visiting different websites, using PHP code, to do it, what happened was that his website was viewed as a spammer, cookie stuffing and different black hat stuff, all going on inside this guys free theme, now really do not take it for granted.

Make sure you have the right theme for your website, it can make a huge difference in your efforts.

writing for the web

Developing websites and content.

Opening a business would of course require a lot of things, to get straight to the point, you need a capital. To make money requires money as well. But of course, with the versatility the internet offers, there are many ways you could find that could help optimize the potential of your site or business in generating traffic.

While there are ways to jumpstart your traffic flows, many sites donít have the resources that others have to generate more traffic for your site. Well, you donít have to spend a cent; all you need is the proper mindset and a lot of eagerness. You also must have the drive and perseverance to do hard work and research to generate more traffic for your site.

Take advantage of online forums and online communities. The great thing about forums and online communities is that you can target a certain group that fits the certain demographic that you are looking for. You can discuss about lots of things about the niche that you represent or offer. Another great advantage is that you know what you are getting into and you will be prepared.

With online communities and forums you can build a reputation for your company. Show them what you are made of and wow them with your range of expertise about topics and subjects, with that you can build a reputation and build trust with the people in your expertise and knowledge.

You can also make use of newsletters. Provide people with a catalog of your products and interesting and entertaining articles. If you make it really interesting and entertaining, more people will sign up for your newsletter and recommend it to other people. The more people who signs up for your newsletter, the more people there will be that will go to your site increasing your traffic.

Another great idea is trading links with other sites. You donít have to spend a cent. All you have to do is reach an agreement with another webmaster. With exchanging links, the efforts both sites do will benefit both sites. Every traffic that goes to the site could potentially click on the link of your site and visit your site as well. This works well especially when both sites feature the same niche.

Write articles that will capture the attention of people that have an interest in your product.

Writing articles that can develop an interest in what your website has to offer.

Writing articles that provide good service and knowledge to other people could provide the necessary steps your traffic deprived website needs.

Many sites offer free submission and posting of your articles. When people find interest in your articles they have a good chance of following the track by finding out where the article originated. Include a link or a brief description of your company with the article and there ís a great probability that they will go to your site.

Developing good content for your site is all about what you know than what you do not know.

Many search engines track down the keywords and keyword phrases your site uses and how they are used. It is not a requirement that a content should be done by a professional content writer. You could do your on but you have to make content for your site that is entertaining as well as informational. It should provide certain requirements as well as great quality.

Most of the time internet users use the search engines that produce results and they want to find what they are looking for. Search engines in return use keyword searching in aiding their search results. With the right keywords, you could get high rankings in search engine results without the higher costs associated with some services that may not provide that much in ROI, so all in all you might get better results with marketing and developing your own content than using stale content that does not provide the best results for your efforts.

WordPress 3.3

What do you think about the new wordpress update is it something that you can really get into or is is another step in the wrong direction?

The latest version of wordpress has yet to be released, it is version 3.3 and it could cause you a lot of trouble.

In fact there are already some plugin vendors that are asking what is going on and why are they doing it.

The answer to that may not be easy to understand and in fact, in some ways it is somewhat understandable.

Because the admin section was loading the admin menu upon every single page load, and what a mess that is.

   So what is the problem and how can we fix it, again the answer to that is not known, but I can say this, it looks like it might be very difficult to design plugins, that fit into the new system.  What this means is that when a website owner or webmaster, updates their blogs, or websites, they might find that half the plugins they used to use are now not able to be accessed because the admin tool bar has changed, and the plugin does not know how to deal with that issue.

You might be tempted to say, hey, did they do this on purpose?

Who knows for sure, and to be fair this is just a beta, so were not even sure what the end result will be, one thing is clear,
Change is coming and performance, is going to be a lot better this way the downside is that we have to find a way to make
plugins work, or else you may have to abandon wordpress like a sinking ship.

The sad thing here is that most of us, just cannot afford to jump ship just because we see a giant ice burg dead ahead, though it might make sense to do that, the truth of the matter is that most of us have invested so much time and energy developing for wordpress that at this late date, the choice is to jump over board, or sink with the ship…

Sounds bad, and it might be, but we really dont know yet, what this is going to do to all the different plugins.

In fact, in the forum one plugin developer was saying hey I have been working for 5 years, and this is news to me why change this all around and you want to know the answer he received?

(paraphrased)

Tough, you should have been paying attention, we have been talking about this for months and if you were not paying attention its just too, bad, so sad, (Wow, it makes you wonder what kind of people are over there developing wordpress anyways)

One thing remains clear, if your not watching where the ship is headed you might end up hitting an iceburg…

 

 

 

 

 

blogging is work?

No way blogging is work, or is it?

well yes, it is, if you do it on a regular basis and that is what you really need to be doing if you want to build a better website, making money online is all about what you can do to attract visitors and it is about how often you provide good fresh content.

Editing your content is one way to keep your website up to date, adding to your content, is also a good way to keep your website fresh, articles and blogging is not something that is easy but if you can do it every day then you will see better results.

Keyword research is one of the best ways to gain additional exposure to your website, keyword research is something that should be done every day.

Now perhaps you have seen these products advertised online that promise you will not have to do anything but set up the blog and then forget it.

Sadly that is not the real world.

That is not even in this same universe with the rest of the planet.

Welcome to the real world and the chances are good that if you are reading this then you have already realized that
nothing is as easy as setting it and forgetting it.  There are so many people out there that want to succeed online, yet
they do not want to put any effort into creating a website they just want to make the money without doing anything
to earn that money, and why not if you could do that it would be great.

But if it were really that easy, would not everyone be doing it?

Sure they would….