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Keyword-rich search term for blog

May 14th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Social media

Delighted to say the blog received the first real keyword-rich search phrase today.
Great news. This means that someone looking for what I offer
can find my site on the internet among the 90,000,000
my research is beginning to pay off
I have evidence that something is working!
It is all about celebrating the journey and not simply [...]

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Happy 1 month blog birthday

May 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Social media, Uncategorized, Words

My Wordpress blog is four weeks old. Having had a few miscarriages of communication with previous blogs my idea this time was simply to behave as a real parent. My entirely new domain felt like a new domain in every sense.
My blogging aims for the first month were:
To provide the best [...]

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Wordpress.org Wordpress.com – API key

April 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Branding, Marketing, Social media, Technology

When I first heard about Wordpress I assumed that it was one entity and similar to Blogger or Typepad.
You pick from your prescribed themes and off you go. This is true for Wordpress.com. At Wordpress.com your blog is hosted on the Wordpress.com site so effectively you have the benefit of the [...]

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Away for the weekend -blog visitors improve!

April 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Inspiration, Internet Marketing, Social media, Technology

I went away for the weekend to a family reunion which was wonderful and forgot about work.
Beautiful countryside, good food, good conversations, visiting places I knew as a child, connecting with where I have come from.   Great memory: sitting in the sunshine on the day before Easter in the company of about 25 relatives (not [...]

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Postdating a post

April 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Technology

I have just discovered that the date and time option allows you to specify a time in the past in Wordpress!
So if I want to relate the post to something that has happened,  I can make the post current with the event.
Writing a post in advance and scheduling it for publication in the future is [...]

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Success at joining the self hosted Wordpress.org blog party

April 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Words

What a sense of relief that this blog is seeing the light of day!  All I have to do now is write up some good content,  which I hope will prove valuable and useful.  It was the technical stuff that was my stumbling block, and I did ask myself why I didn’t outsource it to [...]

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