SEO for Wordpress Video Series
July 31, 2008 by admin
Filed under New Media Pro
In preparation for this Friday’s Main Topic, Optimizing your blog/site for SEO, I am posting this new video series for you to watch. Jeff Chandler will be doing a part of the main topic based on Wordpress SEO and this video series goes hand in hand with that.
I used the new VideoWebWizard to compile this series into a player, instead of having separate videos to watch. This is a lot easier for most people.
So, enjoy this series!
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Day 1: Introduction to Traffic Generation
June 9, 2008 by admin
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Welcome to the first installment of the five part series Traffic Generation Course. Today, I want to discuss the various things that you need to check to ensure that your site is ready to receive traffic.
Think of this: If you were expecting company at your home, there are certain things you might do in advance. You would make sure your home was clean, that there was fresh soap and clean hand towels in the bathroom, and you might prepare some snacks, or even an entire meal.
Preparing your website follows the same concept. You want to make sure that things are neat and tidy. Make sure that your navigation follows a logical sequence. Make sure that you have plenty of good content, and that everything is spelled correctly.
You also want your visitors to be able to participate in your site – to take action. Look at each page, and determine what type of action your visitors can take. Do you have a forum or blog? Do you conduct polls or surveys? Do you have a subscribe box for your opt-in list on every page of your site? Make absolutely sure that your website is ready for company! Also make sure that your pages lead your visitors to take the action that you want them to take, no matter what that action may be.
That is the first and most essential step of traffic generation. If your site isn’t pleasing and welcoming, any traffic generation activities you do from this point on are wasted! Take the time, and put forth the effort to make your site as good as possible – and learn to look at it from your visitor’s point of view!
After you do this, make sure that you are using all of the best known Search Engine Optimization techniques, such as making sure that you have clean HTML code, that you’ve used your keyword effectively, that you have keyword rich text links and alt tags, and that the title of your website, in your HTML code, has your main keyword or phrase as well. Take some time to explore SEO techniques, so that you can draw natural search traffic as well.
Once your website is ready for company, you are ready to start inviting that company. You do not need any special tools for traffic generation. What you need is your computer, an Internet connection, your mind, a willingness to do the work, and knowledge. That’s all it takes.
Homework Assignment: Make absolutely sure that your website is ready to receive traffic. Do you have an opt-in page? Do you have a subscribe box on every page of your site? Look at each page, and determine whether there is enough content, and if there is an action for your visitors to take on each page. Make sure that your site is optimized for the search engines.
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Wordpress Weekly News Segment 05/23/2008
May 23, 2008 by admin
Filed under Features, Wordpress Weekly News
**WordPress News For The Week Of May 23rd 2008**
*24 Ways to contribute to WordPress* – I wrote a piece on WeblogToolsCollection which covered 24 different ways to contribute to the WordPress project. Some of those ways include, Participating in the WordPress forum, Create and share a WordPress Plugin, Share and Create a WordPress Theme, and Contribute to the WP Codex. Visit http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/19/24-ways-to-contribute-to-wordpress/ to get the full list.
*Scrapur.com offers steps to perform before changing permalinks* – The folks over at Scrapur.com has put together a list of steps along with a list of plugins to use before you change your permalink structure within WordPress. If you don’t take the proper precautions before changing your permalinks, you could end up with a ton of broken links. Check out the article here http://scrapur.com/index/wordpress/steps-before-changing-permalink-in-wordpress/
*Lester Chan’s Gamerz Plugin Updates* – Lester Chan, the creator of some of the most popular plugins used with WordPress announced that he has released his first wave of updates for his plugins. Lester also announced that all of the plugins within this list will be compatible for WordPress 2.5 and above. Lester’s plugins are awesome and I highly recommend them to anyone who is looking for plugins that solve the problems that lester’s does. Check out the list of plugins that were updated here http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/05/15/gamerz-wordpress-plugins-update/
*Plugin of the week* – This weeks featured plugin is called BT Active Discussions http://www.blogthority.com/bt-active-discussions/ This is a recent comments plugin that displays customizable number of blog posts with recently updated comments. The output of the plugin looks very similar to phpBB’s View Active Topics and vBulletin’s Today’s Posts functions.
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Wetpaint Nation Segment Notes 05/23/2008
May 23, 2008 by admin
Filed under Features, Wetpaint Wiki
Wetpaint Injected: Want a wiki on your site? Well with Wetpaint Injected you can! - With Wetpaint Injected, your visitors will be able to contribute an ongoing stream of search engine optimized new content to your site. This user-generated content will increase your search engine presence. [more...]
Twitter: Troy launched the twitter account http://www.twitter.com/Troy_Wetpaint he will post about recent Wetpaint News, Wetpaint Blog posts, plus more Wetpaint stuff…
Quick TalkShoe News: Release has been post-poned - The release information that I talked about last week will be in effect on Tuesday, May 27, 2008.
Wetpaint Nation: For more Wetpaint Tips, tricks, and Wetpaint News catch the latest episode of Wetpaint Nation on our Wiki, the blog or on our TalkShoe page.
Questions, Comments and Feedback welcomed - If you have any questions about Wetpaint, Wetpaint Nation or using the TalkShoe Service for Wetpaint Nation, Drop me a line at podcast@buddes.net and I will get back to you. I love seeing questions, comments and feedback, so let me know what you think.
Budde Podcasting Center: v2 of the Budde Podcasting Center at live.buddes.net has been release and was released yesterday. Check it out today.
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Episode 25 - Merchandising for your Podcast
May 23, 2008 by admin
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Josh Budde has requested this special topic as he wants to know more about how to merchandise his podcasts. So, in preparation for this episode, I dug back into my archives and pulled out an online affiliate store that does just that! You can view this store at http://graiteshirts.shirtcity.com and you can setup your own store and begin selling your own branded merchandise!
Just announced tonight, the new Podcaster Training Raffle has began. I will hold a new raffle each week, with some pretty big prizes. This weeks raffle prizes are more than 200 eBooks and software with Master Resell Rights and your own Turnkey eBookStore with another 200 eBooks and software pre-loaded into a ready made shopping cart, ready to put online and use now! The winner for this week’s raffle will be drawn and announced on next week’s show.
Jeff Chandler, Josh Budde and Patti Serrano gave their insights on their respective segments and their show notes will be posted in their categories after the show, as always.
Rob McNealy from Contrived Media was our Special Guest and talked about Internet Marketing and Promotion techniques.
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Promoting Your Website For Free
May 22, 2008 by admin
Filed under New Media Pro
Free Website Promotion…Why Not?
Can you ever avail of free website promotion? Is that even feasible?
Of course yes! Nowadays, your baby website can amass huge traffic in no time thanks to free website promotion.
How does this free website promotion go anyway? What are things to be done?
1. Enlist your website.
Look for the hottest Internet directories and enlist your site there. This is the easiest and most effective free website promotion tactic. Start with this step and the rest of the good things will follow.
Just don’t forget to prep your website and make it all spruced up for a higher chance to get accepted in your directory of choice.
2. Know your forums.
One reason why forums are created is for free website promotion for everyone. Log in, post actively, let them know about your site in every post and you attract instant visitors right there.
3. Write a press release.
Release your writing prowess and start up a press release that advertises your site! This is a free website promotion tactic that you can do anytime. Type a brief paragraph or two and email it to your friends, colleagues, internet e-zines, newspapers and other media and massive traffic will come to you pronto!
4. Be friendly online.
Free website promotion means you need to be friendly to other webmasters. Why, you ask? So they can link you immediately! Establish contacts and never tire of link requests and exchanges.
5. Write an article.
Say, your website is about your travel agency. Write an article about the perks of traveling or the hottest travel spots in the world. On the concluding paragraph, mention your website in passing. This article works as an advertorial and doubles as a free website promotion approach.
6. Just let the whole world know about your site.
What is free website promotion without the word of mouth? Insert your website, its URL and features in daily conversations and let the good news spread from one mouth to another!
7. Make a banner ad.
Make a banner ad for your site and ask another webmaster to do the same for his site. Then swap!
8. Take up a free website promotion course online.
Yes, there are free website promotion tutorials. But don’t you know that you can actually take a free website promotion course that can help you out further? Part of the free website promotion program is signing up for newsletters.
When you make a website, you need not pay anything to promote it. You just read it — there is such a thing as free website promotion!
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eBook and Software Raffle
May 21, 2008 by admin
Filed under Podcaster Training
The official announcement will come on Friday Night’s Show, but here is a sneek peek!
You can visit http://www.podcastertraining.com/raffle to get your chance to win more than 400 eBooks and Software, along with a Turnkey eBookStore pre-loaded with a shopping cart database and ready to put online!
Find out more info about several of these eBooks and Software at http://www.podcastertraining.com/info
Each entry is only $1.00 and you can purchase up to 10 chances per raffle! One winner will be selected each week and the winner will be announced on the show! First winner to be announced on May 30th, 2008.
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Getting Started with the Basics
May 17, 2008 by admin
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In this lesson, we discuss how to find your audience and techniques to perform BEFORE you produce your first podcast.
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Flash Gordon: Episodes 1 to 4
May 17, 2008 by admin
Filed under Classic Radio
Episode 1 Originally Aired April 27th, 1935 - On The Planet Mongo
Episode 2 Originally Aired May 4th, 1935 - Befriends Lion Men
Episode 3 Originally Aired May 11th, 1935 - Imprisoned by Hawk Men
Episode 4 Originally Aired May 18th, 1935 - Death Battle
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Talkshoe News from Josh Budde 05/16/2008
May 17, 2008 by admin
Filed under Features, Wetpaint Wiki
Support Changes: New Call Center (724.935.8265) and Frequently Asked Questions, Plus more.. See http://www.talkshoe.com/support for more details.
Next Release: Participant Counts on the Homepage and Live Now pages, New Button and Alignment of Buttons on Web and Pro Clients, You’ll be able to mute and unmute guests in your show automatically when they join (Based on Mute Status in Settings and on Current Episode), This is for Callers and Chatters, New Blog Design at http://www.talkshoe.com/blog.
Josh will be hosting an episode of Wetpaint Nation next Friday at 7:00 PM Eastern Time and the segment for Wetpaint will follow shortly after the show. Interested in getting the latest in the Budde Podcasting World? Subscribe to the Budde Podcasting Newsletter.
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