‘Blogging’ Category Archive

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Excerpt: Writing a blog is a weighty undertaking and requires constant determination to put fingers to keyboard and find something to say. There are two countering factors at work, writing because you have to is likely to reduce the quality of posts (like this one). On the other hand, you need to generate content for your readers otherwise, what is the point. Search engines love to see the new content too. Where’s is the happy medium? I try and write about 15 posts a month, which is roughly a post every other day if I work on it at the weekends. It is also…

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Excerpt: If you have just started a blog it can be difficult to get it off the ground. There are so many blogs on the web. According to Technorati, around 133 million have been indexed since 2002 . However, most  people tend to be creatures of habit and there is only so much time in the day or so much that a person can take in. The result is that most people have a few blogs that they read on a regular basis and these tend to be the same blogs that everyone else reads. Everyone has to start somewhere and with…

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Excerpt: As promised, this post is on social media to increase traffic for blogs. Social media is quite a vague term but it is generally accepted to mean any thing from leaving comments in a blog to the large content community sites. A good blog should foster opportunities for communities to interact. Not only does it have a feel good factor that make you want to carry on writing a blog but it also reduces reliance on traffic from search engines and the whims of the mighty Google. The key to success of a blog is to create content that will…

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Excerpt: WordPress is a great content management and blogging platform  with enormous potential to add new content to existing websites or online stores. The enormous range of plugins makes it  extremely versatile. If you are new to blogging or WordPress what can you do to make your WordPress blog more search engine friendly? At the time of writing, the latest installation is 2.7.1. One of the major features other than its new interface its automatic upgrade feature, which allows you keep your system up-to date. This is the first rule of keeping a secure blog. Rather than go for the default theme, you…

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Excerpt: In our previous post on video optimisation VSEO we covered many topics such as it prominence in universal search and how to improve the chances of the video being indexed and shown in the SERPs. In this follow on article we look deeper into video optimisation. We touched upon the idea that transcripts of videos are a good idea for adding content in addition to usability for people that may not find it convenient to watch the video. However, you can say an awful lot in a short video so automatic video transcription tools are useful.  Transana,  EureScribe, Inqscribe (not automatic…