Category Archives: General Information

Guest post: Best blogging practices by marketing expert, Coryon Redd

Posted on October 27, 2009 by CScholz

Strategy/Marketing Plan by Coryon Redd, batteries4lesss.com, cellplaza.org Why are you doing a blog? Your blog needs a strategy.  There are many goals for blogging for business such as: promoting website usage, building links to your website, sharing insight into your … Continue reading →

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Update to the latest version of WordPress

Posted on October 26, 2009 by CScholz

This post is for those who maintain their own WordPress site/s (or are employing someone other than myself do it for them). Recently, I wrote an article about how to backup your WordPress site properly.  If you are not in … Continue reading →

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Back yourself up: The 3 top reasons to back up your WordPress site

Posted on October 14, 2009 by CScholz

Why backup? 1) hosting companies disappear 2) servers crash 3) code gets corrupted Ok, so I convinced you.  Now if you’re like most people, you’ve got 2 tasks ahead: To backup your database, use the WP-Database-Backup plugin.  Before I discovered … Continue reading →

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Stats for WordPress: Analytics or WP stats?

Posted on October 13, 2009 by CScholz

One of my clients just asked me if there was a way to see how many people were visiting his Wordpress blog each day and my answer is yes! There are 2 ways I recommend:

1) Google Analytics and 2) Wordpress.com stats

Google Analytics is by far the most in-depth, comprehensive stats provider. It is very useful for when you want to employ search engine optimization techniques. However, sometimes it’s just TMI (too much information!).

Wordpress.com stats is a wordpress plugin that gives you the basics in your dashboard – how many visits, keywords people used to find you, the links they clicked on while they were there, etc. Here is a screenshot of my wp.com stats since I started my e-newsletter:

Which to use? Both. Continue reading →

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Add a feedback tab to your site

Posted on August 24, 2009 by CScholz

I just discovered this great feedback tool that allows your website visitors to easily engage with your content. You can test it right here on my site by clicking on the “Feedback” tab on the right-hand side. Or go to GetSatisfaction.com to get your own. Continue reading →

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DVD video to QuickTime Conversion

Posted on August 21, 2009 by CScholz

Have a video on DVD that you would like to edit? Well first you will have to convert it to a format that works with your video editor. Continue reading →

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How to insert a photo into a WordPress post

Posted on July 30, 2009 by CScholz

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