RSS Feeds are a very useful and powerful feature that allow your content to be listed on other websites, Twitter, RSS Readers and a lot more, so people can obtain instant up to date new content from you without having to visit your website all the time. So why not export your Interspire Email Marketer Newsletters in the same way? This way even people who do not subscribe to your newsletter will be updated. This blog describes how to export the newsletters as RSS Feeds, its actually very easy.
If you are not familiar with RSS Feeds, read my blog here on the benefits of exporting content as RSS Feeds. I also talk about the benefits of Email Marketing here. I use an industry leading newsletter system for my newsletters.
Google AdSense is a Google application that allows website owners to earn revenue from visitors to their website. It’s those “Ads by Google” links you see on this blog page below this post, and on the right hand column. It’s a great way to earn a little extra income if you have a busy website. This blog describes how to add Google AdSense inside a content page on your Joomla website.
I’ve had a few clients recently ask me to setup a blogging system. I nearly always recommend WordPress because it is one of the most common and powerful blogging systems available and is free to download and use. Setting up the blog is straightforward if you know how to FTP and create a MySQL database on your web hosting account. Once setup it is ready to go, you can start blogging right away.
The only issue in my mind is the blog design. The default design is quite bland and probably very common, yet there are thousands of free designs available that are far more professional and just look much better, so why not change it? This blog describes how to obtain and install a new theme.
Having a busy schedule means I find it hard to update Twitter often so I am always looking at ways to help. Although it is recommended to write and post the tweets yourself to provide a human interaction, there are a number of automated tweeting systems that can compliment your usual tweeting schedule and make life easier. One such system is Twitter Feed.
It is well known one of the most important techniques to increase rankings is backlinks. Google in fact started its ranking algorithm based on the number of other websites that have links to yours. If someone puts a link to your site, they are in fact approving or recommending your website in a way, and that’s how Google sees it. If your website has 5 links to it from other sites, compared to your competitor who has 1000, then your competitor clearly has a site worth linking to, and its rankings will reflect that.
This blog describes a great way to increase backlinks to your website without costing anything.
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