If you are going to make use of WordPress excerpts, you are going to have to learn how to edit them. It’s a very simple process that I detail step by step here. Just follow these instructions and pictures and you’ll be all set!
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From the category archives:
Website Management
The first thing to do to promote an existing website is to measure how many people are visiting your site right now. I recommend using Google Analytics for this purpose. It’s free and it tells you who is coming to your site and what they are doing when they get there. Just go to their site and follow their instructions on how to put the code up.
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Last time we covered a very easy way for small businesses with websites to fix a simple mistake and make a lot more money. Since then I realized there is an even bigger mistake with a very simple solution that small business owners make before they even get their websites off the ground. 2 Parts [...]
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Blogging gets a lot press as far as WordPress is concerned. But sometimes you just want a normal web page – not the blog variety. I use WordPress pages through out all of my sites for items I know that will be around for a long time. I treat them sort of as encyclopedia pages and the posts as newspaper articles. My home page, about page, contact pages (and many more) are all WordPress Pages.
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Sometimes you want to schedule your WordPress post for a later date. If you have a small business this might be to coincide with a sale or a promotion or even a special holiday message. Since posting frequently is such an important part of my search engine optimization strategy, I often write my posts well ahead of time and schedule them to be released at regular intervals.
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Sometimes you don’t have the time to finish your WordPress post. You have some work done, but you just aren’t finished. Here’s a quick video on how to save your work for later.
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Hi. Just wanted to send a note out that my email newsletter is changing. Please, please sign up for the new one right now! There is tons of free, very helpful content soon on its way and I want to make sure that everyone who reads this space is in the know. If you are [...]
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Last post I recommended that business owners use affiliate sales instead of using Google AdSense on their sites. The question Jill immediately asked back was ‘What are affiliate links?’ Here’s a good primer. What are Affiliate Links Affiliate links are essentially kickbacks. And they have can be used ethically or unethically just the same. You [...]
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Yesterday I talked about using Google AdWords advertising to test to see what Google thinks of your site. Since then I was asked if a small business owner should put ads on his site. He was wondering if the ads would be helpful or if they would appear as tacky. These are my thoughts on [...]
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Need a quick way to see if Google can actually read your site? Here’s a great quick, cheap, and easy way to find out if Google is interpreting your site the way you want them to. Ready? Just add Google AdWords Google AdWords is part of the big G’s advertising arm. This is code you [...]
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