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The problem with using Feedburner for email marketing

The one major drawback with using Feedburner for email marketing is that you cannot edit the email template (which means you can't add custom links back to your site or any custom branding besides your...

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Stats for WordPress: Analytics or WP stats?

One of my clients just asked me if there was a way to see how many people were visiting his Wordpress blog each day and my answer is yes! There are 2 ways I recommend: 1) Google Analytics and 2)...

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Back yourself up: The 3 top reasons to back up your WordPress site

Why backup? 1) hosting companies disappear 2) servers crash 3) code gets corrupted Ok, so I convinced you.  Now if you’re like most people, you’ve got 2 tasks ahead: To backup your database, use the...

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Free Facebook tip: shorten your URL

Facebook Pages are an important piece of your overall social media marketing strategy. With a FB page, you can publish your blog content to people who have subscribed to your page by becoming a fan....

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The art of SEO: basic concepts for WordPress users

You’ve probably already heard that SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a very important part of your total website marketing plan. Here are the basics concepts as an introduction to SEO: 1) SEO is all...

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Google Local Business Center

Here is another way you can increase your visibility on Google – register your business at Google’s Local Business Center.  It will put you on Google Maps for your business and help people locate you....

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Design Portfolio: Heal Your Mind, Rewire Your Brain

Patt Lind-Kyle has created a book and companion CD set to support people in changing their lives for the better. Her WordPress website incorporates the following features: Blog YouTube Channel Social...

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Comparing WordPress to Joomla

Although most of my experience building websites has been with WordPress, I have also used Joomla and I have a few things to say about my experience with it that convinced me that I strongly prefer...

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Design Portfolio: Featured Content Gallery

This screenshot of Patt Lind-Kyle’s home page shows one of my favorite WordPress add-ons: the Featured Content Gallery (FCG).  This plugin allows WordPress users/designers to add a rotating image...

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Why use WordPress (self-hosted)?

There are many great reasons to use a self-hosted version of WordPress for developing your website and blog.  Here are my top 10: Google loves WordPress (and blogs in general) because search engines...

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