Pinterest, a social media platform with visual imagery, pins and boards, can be used as to connect with others locally with local images. Bloggers with exciting visual imagery can use it as a way to share eye-catching posts.
Google+ – learn to verify authorship of your articles; get the Google +1 button on your posts; and use Google+ to develop relationships. Learn how Google Search Plus changes the search engine – set up your articles so you benefit.
SEO, Social Media
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Google, plugins
Related Posts can be created with a plugin or with PHP code. You can also use HTML and CSS code to create unique related posts. In this article, learn the HTML and CSS code to create Related Posts.
Tips for beginning bloggers: know your purpose, blog regularly, respond to comments, choose platform, write good content. Experienced bloggers share advice and ideas.
A case study: Develop a website strategy for your home page. Clear header, explain the business concisely, use social media to develop contacts. Can you help this UK small business with their website strategy?
Link Picks talks about the Twitter tool Tweepi, simple SEO techniques, social media icons on your small business website, and changing your WordPress permalinks to postname.
Highlights of 2011 – how to set up a Twitter profile, how to set up a Facebook business page, responsive web design – think mobile, error 404 pages, slideshows and photo galleries, and SEO (search engine optimization)
General, New Jersey, SEO, Twitter
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Websites for Small Biz encourages guest bloggers on technical and business topics. Learn 1) guidelines on how to submit a guest post to Websites for Small Biz, 2) how you can go about asking me to write a guest post for your blog and 3) how you can be interviewed about your small business or blog.
WordPress SEO by Yoast has handy tools for search engine optimization, such as focus keyword and SEO Title fields. NextGen Gallery is great for managing, uploading, sorting and displaying images.
Example of responsive web design over a mobile theme for WordPress: mobile theme for WordPress only shows back end text and ignores special WordPress template. Responsive web design version looks great.
About Leora: Leora Wenger builds websites for small businesses, libraries and three Rutgers University departments. She loves tweaking PHP, composing a striking web design, stretching Wordpress, and publicizing sites. In her spare time she's a mom, wife and daughter. Every now and then she squeezes in the time to paint a watercolor or two.
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