Check your plugins

Before you update your Wordpress blog (If you are a Wordpress blogger) make sure all your “Need to Have” Plugins have updates too. Do this by visiting the plugin author’s page.

If not, you could have a bunch of techie issues to deal with… Not fun.

For example,

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New blogging report coming soon

Hi folks :-)

I’m not sure what to do with “Your First Blog” guide I’m giving away here but I do know this, starting with it for you, is like putting the horse before the cart.

based on the feedback I’ve received, what people really need are concepts to start out with not mechanics.

The report I’m giving away now is all about mechanics and you should really not get into the mechanics until you’re clear on the concepts.

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Yes I do Email Marketing

Have a mailing list? Have you mailed any offers lately?

Today I mailed all subscribers of this blog an offer from Nathan Segal.

If you missed the email, visit Nathan and learn how to speed up your computer (If yours is running slow).
http://www.speedupmycomputernow.com/2.html

Nathan has put together a real effective program for speeding up your computer and I’ve used it so wanted to share it with you. Yes, if you buy I’ll make a commission (But not this time from the link above) and does that make me a bad person?

Some people think so.

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keywords

I’ve been asked over and over what’s the best keyword tool and I only have one pick.

Keyword Elite.

Go there and get yourself a thorough education on keyword research because if you pick the wrong keyword for your blog, you’ll never get good rankings in the search engines. This goes for the keywords you use in your post titles as well.

I’d like to go into a long discourse on keyword research but will save that for the pros.

The person to get schooled on about keywords is Brad Callen the creator of Keyword Elite.

Brad is not some fly by night internet marketer trying to sell you crap in a box. He’s been in the keyword business for a long time and I respect his craft. So much, I’ll promote him.





Let your blog have one purpose

Just got off the phone (SKYPE) with a client. During the call, we had a look at her blog together.

When I see too many actions the visitor can take, I know right away it’s time to ask  the BIG question…

If you could have your visitors take only one action when they land on your blog, what would it be and how would they benifit from taking that action? OK, I lied. That’s two questions.

Here is an example of a blog belonging to Andy Beard that has only one thing you can do… Read his content. http://andybeard.eu.  I recommend you add his blog to your reading list because his content is that good.

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