Are you consider building your own website but overwhelmed by all the options? Should you use WordPress? Joomla? Weebly? Google Pages? Blogger? WordPress.com? Drupal? Mambo? SiteFrame? SohoLaunch Pro? Templates Express? RV Site Builder? It’s enough to make your head spin! But what’s more important that which technology you use, is that your choice supports 5 [...]
The answer is simple. Add social networking sharing buttons — specifically the Tweet button! BrightEdge released a report this month with all sorts of great data about social sharing statistics gathered from the top 10,000 websites. You can find the basics plus a link to download the whole thing here: http://seo-blog.brightedge.com/general/september-brightedge-socialshare-report-the-marketing-benefits-of-social-buttons/ A quote from the [...]
Have you seen those cool audio/video seminars offered on websites? Where you sign up and get a new audio or video for X days or X weeks? I’ve been working on a couple for my websites and, of course, researching tips and tricks so I can get it right. Here’s a great article to help [...]
Last weekend I took my kids to the most amazing playground for a few hours. During our time there I saw the same scene played out over and over again: Adult: It’s time to go, let’s get our things together. Child: Nooooooooo!!! Please let’s stay a little longer! The details and amount of [...]
How do you create an awesome blog? Great content is the cornerstone, of course. But once you’ve got great content, then it’s all the little things here and there that add up to explode into awesomeness! Here’s my list of 51 ways to make your blog more awesome. I’ve linked some of them to previous [...]
Last week I promised I’d share some of the “beyond the basics” plugins I’m running on my blog. One of those is PostRank and I use it to show off the “hot” posts on my website. Why might you want to show off your popular posts? You want readers to find your best content fast [...]
In the past year, I’ve blogged an average of 26 times per month, or 6 days a week. This blog has been around for a couple of years. And I get all excited about blog challenges, plugins, WordPress updates, and bloggy things. So you can safely assume a couple of things: * I like to [...]
Are you holding your content hostage? Or your readers? I was searching the web this morning for a specific plugin I’d used before but couldn’t remember the name of. I came across a website with a demo of the plugin, but instead of being able to see the demo and page content, I was greeted [...]
Got a question this week about cPanel backups so I’ve answered it in a short video. Here’s how to grab a cPanel backup of your hosting account, and why you may want to make this one of your regular routines.
Sometimes blogging lingo can be a little confusing. Take all those “link” related words, for example: trackback, pingback, backlink… do you understand the difference? More importantly, do you know how to… automatically tell search engines and others that there’s new content on your blog? protect your blog from being penalized in the search engines by [...]
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About Michelle Shaeffer
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Michelle has been online since the late 80s, creating websites since the early 90s, and has coded thousands of web pages in that time. She's worked as a virtual assistant and website designer for small business owners including marketers, authors, coaches, crafters, and other solopreneuers.
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