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For reasons I don’t completely understand, the obvious best Permalink URL format is not a default in WordPress. Many blogs have dates in the URLs or other extraneous words that make your URLs too long and hard to remember.
A clean URL should have only your domain (and possibly /blog or a subdomain) and then a SHORTENED post name which ideally would be your target keyword phrase.
You can easily change a setting in WordPress so that you your future posts will automatically have cleaner URLs.
WARNING: Changing this setting is retroactive and will change the permalinks to all existing posts. We recommend you first install Platinum SEO and then make the change because that plugin will automatically redirect all your existing links. That alone makes it a great plugin to use as the default WordPress behavior that changes your permalink if you change your post title can introduce permanlink changes you may not have intended.
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Click the Bird to Tweet This
I am asking my fellow bloggers and Twitter users to do their part to support their favorite small and online businesses through the BizLuv MEME. Read more about why we all need to support each other and small businesses in BizLuv Meme.
Here is how you can participate:
TWITTER USER? Please Tweet This and share it on your other favorite Social Media and Bookmarking sites.
BLOGGER? Please Publish a Blog Post:
To make it easy you can use this template (or be creative and do your own thing). [click to continue…]
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Great Depression Soup Line
Tweet This Post!
Even if the economy is not directly impacting you or your family, it will do so indirectly.
Each person who reduces their spending for any reason will cause the businesses you use regularly to have lower sales.
Declining sales may cause these businesses to lay off employees. As more people are laid off the ripple affect could cause even exceptional businesses you love to fail.
Are you visiting your favorite restaurants, shops and service providers as often and spending as much as you once did? Are they still thriving?
There are simple actions each of us can do to support your favorite businesses. One easy way to thank them and send them new customers is to add a review for them at one or more of these sites: [click to continue…]
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Rank Checker
When I found these two tools, benchmarking where any business ranks in the search engines and how their search engine positions improve over time became really simple.
Once you know what your important keyword phrases are, there are very easy ways to track your progress at attaining first page search positions for them. I explained how to do that in my building-traffic post.
Go to SEOBook Tools and download the free SEOBook Toolbar. Don’t bother trying to figure out which tools to use right now. Just download the toolbar because everything I will be sharing in the future is already in it. [click to continue…]
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Happy New Year 2010 - image credit TotoWeb
I wanted to let all my regular readers know that although I have not published lately it is all good. The pipes are finally thawing out, the propane is holding out, and a new exciting strategy is almost ready to share with you. I also have some draft posts I hope to publish soon, interruptions allowing.
I have been busy testing a new strategy and sometimes testing and assisting small businesses is more urgent than blogging. In the long run, those activities are beneficial to all who read what I share here. This one is simply awesome so do be sure to watch for it. [click to continue…]
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Their target audiences are:
- Merchants interested in generating leads Internationally through cost per view (CPM), cost per click (CPC), cost per acquisition (CPA) or cost per lead (CPL) campaigns
- Publishers experienced in lead generation with large traffic volume and readers in the US, UK, Canada (French & English speaking), Germany, Ireland, Australia or New Zealand [click to continue…]
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Whether you have an existing wedding related business or have an interest in selling or writing about a new niche market, demographic predictions* related to the wedding industry point to strong potential growth.
Couples spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year getting married … and that number is about to get bigger.
Regardless of your current business, you may be able to position products or services for the predicted wedding boom. [click to continue…]
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