At our last Melpies Meeting on Sunday 7th February, we covered of keyword research. Keyword research is one of the most critical pieces of the puzzle in achieving success online. In fact, research is the foundation of any marketing program. Do this wrong, and you will struggle to get the right traffic and traffic that converts. Some […]
In order to get your website to rank number 1 in google, or another other search engine, you may need to look at increasing the number of backlinks to your website. What are backlinks? Backlinks are links from other websites that point to your website. Why backlinks? Because backlinks are an indicator or the popularity […]
A new research report predicts that mobile phones will outstrip PCs as the most common way to search the web by 2013. This is because it is expected that the number of mobile smartphones and browser equipped enhanced phones will outstrip the number of PCs. Its a fairly aggressive projection but if it were to […]
While working this website and planning our next meeting, Ray mentioned that we really needed a form on this website so we could get members to register their attendance. The concern was that attendences at our meeting have been rapidly growing and the seating capacity at our venue is limited to 24. Despite my very […]
On Christmas Day Facebook became the most visited site in the US on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, according to Hitwise. This is the 1st time a site has surpassed Google as being the most visited site in a day. Such is the power of Facebook. A quick look at the statistics tells me that […]
Recently I stumbled across a video featuring Matt Cutts from Google speaking at a WordPress event. So I devoted 45 minutes of my time to watch the video. It was well worth it. The good news is that Google loves WordPress. Matt outlined that there were surprisingly only a few things one needs to do […]
While working on setting up this website, I stumbled across this great WordPress theme that I found which is really very flexible and is FREE. The theme is called Semiologic and I am using this theme on this website. What I love about it is that you can change the colour using skins which are […]
Last weekend I was lucky enough to teach how to build a website using WordPress. The afternoon went very quickly but over the course of the 2 and half hours, we set up a website for our Internet Marketing mastermind group. Of course, the website needed a bit of tweaking and I added some […]
One of the subjects touched on at our last meeting, was web hosting. Having the right web host is essential when deciding to set up a self hosted WordPress website. There are lots of hosting companies out there but not all are going to be suitable for an Internet business. There are a number of […]
Our November Melbourne Warpies Group focused on how to build a website using WordPress. People of varying levels of experience sat around and learnt how to build a website. In attendance were the two Rogers, Florise, Lorraine, Carol, Ray, Simon, Phil, Adam, Conrad, Eric, Yilmaz, Harry and Domenique. Over the course of the afternoon we […]
