Not all of us have photographic talent. Creating your own photo images for your website, social updates, blog or presentations is HARD. When the budget is tight and buying photos and other graphics regularly means going without pudding, what can you do? The rise in free stock photo sites recently has provided us all with […]
(Probably) The Best WordPress Social Media Plugin In The World
If you have used WordPress for any length of time, no doubt you’ve been on the hunt for a great social media plugin many (many!) times. I know I have… It should be easy to add social share buttons to your site – in fact it IS easy to add social buttons and that’s part […]
Social Blog Blueprint Review Part 1 (Is This Blogging Course for You?)
Social Blog Blueprint Review Part 1 Anyone who has joined me for coffee or contacted me asking about how to get found online will know I always mention blogging. Blogging is your home online, it’s the centre of your online universe and the start of a solid social media strategy. So when Sue Worthington said […]
Ecommerce Content Marketing – 24 Expert Tips [Infographic]
Many small businesses are taking the leap into ecommerce. An online shop is an attractive prospect – make sales while you sleep, wake up flooded with orders… It doesn’t quite work that way! Opening up your ecommerce site, slapping on your products with a keyword stuffed description, hoping people somehow find you and then just […]
The Best of My Local Business Online 2013
Before I get to revealing my plans, mission and goals for 2014, I thought I’d take a quick look at the the most popular posts here on My Local Business Online in 2013. I wasn’t quite sure how to count these posts, so I looked at post views and comments. Perhaps not surprisingly, the most […]
WordPress 3.7 Automatic Update Feature (Should You Use It?)
WordPress 3.7 is here (doesn’t seem like 5 mins ago 3.6 was released!) Named “Basie” after jazz musician Count Basie (yes, I had to go look up who he was…) WordPress state that version 3.7 contains “some of the most important architectural updates we’ve made to date .” It wasn’t a totally smooth update to […]
Sunday Catch Up – Wonderful WordPress Edition
As the howls of “botnet” and the news of bots targeting WordPress and other PHP based sites echo around the web, I thought a round-up of positive WordPress posts was in order… Just in case you missed the security warnings – here it is again with how to change your admin username. Move To […]