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Before you start marketing your website there are a few things that you must consider first. Only a madman will go out there and start spending money on pay per click advertising and writing articles to get back links and so on without having a clear and defined path to take.

For example you need to understand who your customers and readers are and where they go, and what they search for.

Here are five things for you to consider before you start marketing your website. [Read the rest of this entry…]

After a long period of waiting, testing, adding and cutting features, many release candidates, the WordPress 3.1 version, codename Reinhardt was officially released. The name comes from the jazz singer Django Reinhardt.

With the new release, wordpress developers promise that WordPress is now more of a CMS than ever before. [Read the rest of this entry…]

Because people have gone so crazy for YouTube these days, everyone is trying to get the most of her or his viral experience. Whether it is to download these videos onto the computer or to try and pull a live song onto their MP3 player, there are no shortage of practical uses for the YouTube generation. Of course, YouTube doesn’t make many of these functions available through their site.

If you are looking to make the most of your YouTube experience, then you are in luck. The Internet has a wide array of places you can go to solve any problem that YouTube throws at you. Here’s a list of problems and practical solutions online. [Read the rest of this entry…]

A lot of people are asking me what content management system I recommend and I always say WordPress. It is my choose and I will stick with it, but there are some people that ask me why I choose WordPress.

It is not a simple question because there are a lot of advantages that makes me to use WordPress but I don’t have time to tell something about each advantage, and I have to think if what I say worth something to the person who listen. I want to tell to people that ask me the most important advantages of WordPress. I want to be short and clear, this is what makes a message powerful. [Read the rest of this entry…]

TFM&A is essential for the marketers and advertisers every year. It is an event that is taking place since 10 years. This mega event is supposed to be the most important in UK for businesses to introduce, show and explain their ambition and work structure. Every year in this event new technology for marketing and advertising are explained to marketers and advertisers. More people come and more they have the knowledge of online business.
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Although WordPress is known for its security, it never hurts to add additional security measures to your site, not only for your safety but for the safety of your readers whether it may be email address protection or firewall protection.

WordPress Security Scan is a plugin that scans WordPress installation for vulnerabilities in security and recommends you corrective actions. These vulnerabilities include file permissions, version hiding, database security and passwords.

If you are running a dedicated server, you may have purchased a SSL certificate. The plugin Force SSL will force an HTTPS connection and require users to use a SSL connection while viewing your website, providing added security.

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“Branding” is basically the process of giving a market identity to a product. For blogs, it’s essential. Not all WordPress blogs look alike, but with common themes and way too many cookie cutter templates, anything which makes your blog stand out is a plus. For marketing purposes, you have to do a lot more than stand out; you must have a marketing identity. SEO and good content can do that for you.

Branding, basics

The fundamentals of branding are like creating a logo. The key requirements for a brand are:

• Unique visual identity
• Unique selling points
• Unique market image and presence
• Unique marketing elements like keywords, advertising slogans, etc. [Read the rest of this entry…]

The wordpress plugin directory hosts over 13 000 plugins right now. The number of plugins developed for wordpress have raised in the last year. In the same period of 2010 we could find only 7000 plugins in the wordpress official plugin directory. This means we are not counting plugins that for any reason are not present in the directory.

One of the reason that a lot of plugins are not in the directory is because their developers try to sell them. [Read the rest of this entry…]

Wiki websites are built to serve for help and support for a product or service, or to make an online database on a certain topic. Wiki were very popular few years ago when a lot of wiki websites were appeared, trying to be a smaller wikipedia to cover a subject. It was a result of the popularity of wikipedia itself.

The wiki websites are based on wikimedia cms, which is very good at maintaining a wiki website but there is not many things you can do with. [Read the rest of this entry…]

WordPress 3.0.5 was released this week. I know you are hardly wait for the new and improved 3.1 release but it will not come so soon. The release candidate 4 of WordPress 3.1 was also announced this week. Further testing and feedback is required to it can hit an official release.

In the wordpress 3.0.5 some more security issues were fixed, including some cases when author or contributor level users can gain access to other users posts and drafts. [Read the rest of this entry…]