Archive for WordPress Websites

WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org: Which Is Better?

| October 25, 2011 | 0 Comments

The differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org can be very confusing to some people. WordPress is a very solid CMS choice for developing your next website or blog, but there are huge differences between .com version and the .org version. In this article I’ll outline those differences. Both the .com and .org version use the WordPress [...]

Creating a mobile website

| August 19, 2010 | 2 Comments

Is your website mobile compatible? Did you know that 86% of Americans own a mobile phone? Now, more than ever, people are relying on their mobile phone for things like checking email, surfing the web, shopping, and much more. As a result many larger companies are creating smart phone apps that allow for quick and [...]

What’s better, a blog within your website or a standalone blogsite?

| July 22, 2010 | 1 Comments

Over the past 10 years blogging has grown tremendously in popularity. More and more businesses are investing in blogs to publish content, engage with prospects and customers, and generate leads. One question that I’ve encountered lately is whether or not a business should add a blog within their website or on a separate domain. This [...]

WordPress.com Passes 200 Million Posts

| June 22, 2010 | 0 Comments

Two weeks ago I wrote a blog post about Twitter and it’s 15 billionths tweet. The purpose of that blog post was to outline, just how big Social Media Marketing is. if Twitter is seeing 2 billion tweets per month, then that just goes to show you how often people are sharing information online. This [...]

7 Ways To Double The Conversion On Your WordPress Blog – Part 4 of 4

| June 14, 2010 | 0 Comments

I’m back for my fourth and final guest blog post.  By the way; if you’d like to apply to get me to be a guest writer on your blog or Facebook page, then send an email right now to jv@smallbusinessblackbelts.com and put “Guest Writer” in the subject line.  You need to let me know how [...]

7 Ways To Double The Conversion On Your WordPress Blog – Part 3 of 4

| June 7, 2010 | 0 Comments

BTW, just in case you have not yet answered my short, easy, painless survey about a free teleseminar, go here right now to answer a few questions. Remember that I’ll reward you handsomely for doing so with a $47 free gift that teaches you more about social media for small business. Getting back to the [...]

7 Ways To Double The Conversion On Your WordPress Blog – Part 2 of 4

| May 31, 2010 | 3 Comments

Last post, I talked about viewing your blog as a landing page whose main purpose in life is to be a conversion tool to build your house list.  Next we’ll talk about how to dramatically increase your conversion for a call to action using those Reader Personas I taught you how to create in the [...]

7 Ways To Double The Conversion On Your WordPress Blog – Part 1 of 4

| May 24, 2010 | 0 Comments

Hi everyone.  My name is Mike Lorence, and I’m excited about being Matt’s guest blogger entries over the next few weeks.  I see biz owners flushing money down the toilet with their blog. So why do you blog? To become a trusted expert For SEO purposes to improve search rankings To build your list Most [...]

Get The Most of Web 2.0 While Using WordPress 3.0

| May 19, 2010 | 0 Comments

For those of you WordPress fanatics out there, I am sure you have heard by now that WordPress 3.0 is on its way out. Originally they wanted to release it at the beginning of this month, but they help back as they worked out a couple of their bugs. For those of you who are [...]

WordPress vs. HTML For a New Website

| April 30, 2010 | 7 Comments

So you’ve determined that you need a new website. You’ve picked out the colors, you have the logo and design in mind. Now you just need to turn this vision into a live, working website. This begs the question, should I develop my website on simple HTML pages or should I use a platform like [...]