What is the ideal length of a blog post? That question has come up in its various forms this week. How many words should I write? How long should my blog article be? Do I need to write at all!? The short answer is, “As long as it needs to be.” Not a very satisfying […]
Why Blog? 7 Reasons Why I Think Business Blogging Is the Bee’s Knees
Why blog? What’s the point? For a small business owner, blogging can be time consuming and often overwhelming. Let me ask you a question… How do your potential customers find you online when they don’t know it’s your business they’re looking for? While your website is just the start of getting found online, blogging is […]
It’s that time again – The Ultimate Blog Challenge
With a few days to go till the end of 2012, an email about the first blog challenge of the year dropped into my mail box. Blink and all of a sudden, it’s 1st January 2013 already. How did it get here so fast? I dutifully signed up… Now I’m sat here thinking once again […]
WordPress 3.5 Now Available – How To Upgrade To WordPress 3.5
WordPress 3.5 is here and it’s time to upgrade again. With any major release, there are bound to be glitches with themes and plugins along the way. Known WordPress upgrade issues can be found on this post over at wordpress.org How To Upgrade To WordPress 3.5 I’m going to outline how I upgrade clients and […]
Easily Create Your Own Quote Images In WordPress [Video]
Quote images are taking over the social sharing space. From Pinterest to Facebook, can you go a day without seeing a quote image fly through the stream? As a service business owner with limited graphic ability, sometimes it’s difficult to take advantage of the latests trends in image sharing. When it comes to online visibility, […]
Yoast WordPress SEO: Open Graph Tags and Twitter Cards [Video]
My recent blog post about setting social sharing image thumbnails with Open Graph tags was perhaps not the most tech free and simple as it could be! If you use WordPress, these Open Graph tags can be set really easily using the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin. While I was in the Social section of Yoast […]
5 Essential Blogging Tips for Small Business Owners Learnt From a Market Stall
Some years ago now, we used to regularly go to horse auctions. There was always a bustling market on the grounds. We’d walk around, often buying items we never originally set out for. “What has this to do with blogging tips for small business owners?” I hear you ask… When I started the Ultimate Blog […]