Need some ideas on what to blog about on your WordPress small business website? This is a short podcast on the three basic types of business blog posts that you can create in order to increase sales and lower advertisement costs. The WordPress SEO plugin that I mention is also available. SEOPressor—WordPress SEO Plugin
I spent some time searching for how to videos on the fantastic open source image editor software GIMP and found this complete, and well produced tutorial video series. I try and gather good videos even if I did not make them. “-)
How To Install
How To Basics
How To Use Gimp To Create Web 2.0 Buttons
Creating Web 2.0 Style Shadows and Reflections in Gimp
How To Create a Web 2.0 Badge Using Gimp
Create a Web 2.0 Text Logo With Reflections Using Gimp
Create a Web 2.0 Text Logo With Reflections Using Gimp
Building Back-links on Your New Affiliate Product Website
This is a short video of the statistics and traffic sources of Cyber Smart after six weeks. Google also gave the site a page rank of two. I was rather surprised, and really wasn’t looking to get anything this time around. Page rank isn’t necessarily that significant of a factor overall. Traffic may not even be the end all definitive measure of success for some business blogs, but rather conversion rate.
If someone has a web hosting site that only brings in 400 visitors per month, and also brings in on average $1,200.00 to $1,500.00 at the same time, you’re probably not complaining. ”-)
A roofing site for example, may have on average 35 visitor per day with traffic spikes only up to 200 in bad weather, and at the same time bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of business.
My personal goal for 2010 is for this site to have on average 1000 unique visitors per day by this time next year. I would be happy with that for the market this site is in.
Each blog is different, and success is defined in many ways -- but no matter what…
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I apologize for not posting much lately, but I’ve been extremely busy behind the scenes. 
How many hours do you spend socializing online every day? How many Tweets do you make every week? Do you leave many comments on other peoples blogs? Then ask yourself this: How much time do I spend doing keyword research? Watch this video to find out why spending time on research is critically important for driving traffic to your blog.
