Tag Archives: WordPress

Four Ways to Add Vine Videos to Your Blog Post

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Jesse

Here are four ways to add Vine videos to your blog post. Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Business, How To, PRO_TIP, Social Media, Technology, Toolbox, Training, Twitter, Video | Tagged application, Blogger, blogging, Tumblr, Video, Vine, WordPress | 25 Comments

Mark Noteworthy Web Activities with Google Analytics’ Annotation Feature

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Jesse

Just as major life events are commemorated with photos and scrapbooks, you can also mark noteworthy Web activities using Google Analytics’ annotation feature. With Google Analytics you can create annotations on your visitor overview timeline. These little notes help you … Continue reading →

Posted in How To, PRO_TIP, Social Media, Toolbox | Tagged Annotations, Email, Events, google analytics, Organizations, stats, uses, WordPress | Leave a comment

How to Add a Pinterest Pin Board to Your WordPress Blog

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Jesse

In this highly technical tutorial, we are going to leverage a new photo and video sharing social media network, Pinterest, and extend its use to meet specific needs. I’m also hoping that the people at Pinterest see this post and include this functionality into its next site updates so content owners don’t have to jump through all these technical hoops. Continue reading →

Posted in Communications, How To | Tagged board, Custom, Feed, pins, Pinterest, RSS, Widget, WordPress | 45 Comments

How to Add Pinterest Pins to Your WordPress Blog

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Jesse

How to add your Pinterest pins to your WordPress blog. Continue reading →

Posted in Communications, How To | Tagged blog, boards, pins, Pinterest, Plugin, Sidebar, WordPress | 10 Comments

HTML For Bloggers Course – Lesson 1

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Jesse

HTML knowledge is one of the biggest stumbling blocks for small business owners looking to manage their own blogs. On a blog platform like WordPress.com, a non-techie can configure 80-90% of their site without knowing any HTML. On Posterous blogs, 95% of the blog site can be well configured without HTML.

It’s that 5-10% that can stop a small business owner in their tracks. The intent of this post and the whole course is to help you get over that learning hump so you can manage your blog effectively and go on and do what you do best, run your business. Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, How-To, Local Businesses, Small Business, Social Media, Training | Tagged blog, bloggers, class, course, free, HOW TO, instructions, learn HTML, Posterous, Small Business, Tumblr, Tutorial, WordPress | 7 Comments

WordPress Launches “Learn WordPress.com” Site

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Jesse

WordPress announced its new Learn WordPress.com site.

This online tutorial is ideal for beginning and intermediate WordPress.com bloggers and for folks who are migrating over from other blog platforms like Blogger and TypePad.
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Posted in News, PRO_TIP, Toolbox, Training, Video, Web Marketing, Web/Tech, Weblogs | Tagged blog, blogging, Learn WordPress.com, Online Learning, Slideshow, Tutorials, WordPress, wordpress.com | 6 Comments

How To Track Tweet Button Clicks In Google Analytics

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Jesse

I use Google Analytics to track activity to and from my blog. Unfortunately, there are a lot of holes in that process, especially related to Twitter clickthroughs. Continue reading →

Posted in Build-A-Fan-Base, PRO_TIP, Social, Strategy, Toolbox, Training, Twitter, Web Marketing, Web/Tech, Weblogs, Widgets | Tagged Clickthrough, google analytics, tracking, Traffic, Tweet Button, Twitter, WordPress | 5 Comments

How To Give Your Blog SEO Super Powers

Posted on August 21, 2010 by Jesse

You don’t have to buy a book and take a seminar or ever buy a fancy blog theme to crank up your blog’s SEO Super Powers.

These top tips will help you zoom up the organic search rankings without breaking a sweat.

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Posted in PRO_TIP, Social, Strategy, Toolbox, Training, Web Marketing, Web/Tech, Weblogs, Widgets | Tagged blog, blogging, Posterous, SEO, Tumblr, WordPress | 5 Comments

20 Ways To Add Video To Your Blog Today

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Jesse

This post looks at 20 different ways to add video to your blog post today. It starts by looking at the Equipment you can use, then shows you how to Embed the video into your blog, and finally looks at other cool video options.

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