Billy Fire LLC – design, marketing and technical commentary
Joost de Valk has posted a video about making your WordPress blog SEO friendly. He makes a lot of useful suggestions in the 50 minute video filmed at A4U Expo in London, including recommended plugins. At Yoost’s suggestion, I have installed RSS-footer, available at Yoost’s site. The plugin automatically adds a link back to one’s [...]
Wed, January 28 2009 » Wordpress » No Comments
I recently decided to create a popup on our home page to promote our monthly newsletter. The industry seems to be divided on whether popups are a good idea. I suspect this is because they have been misused and abused by some sites. This has lead to the creation of popup blockers. In our case [...]
Sat, January 24 2009 » Advertising, CSS, Marketing » No Comments
I recently started using Tweetlater to automatically respond to Tweeters who follow me; and to schedule future tweets. I read an article about someone who scheduled, way in advance, a whole bunch of Tweets, and did so using Tweetlater. It seems like a good idea, if not really in the spirit of Twitter. In the [...]
Fri, January 23 2009 » Marketing, Social media, Tweetlater, Twitter » No Comments
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Mon, January 19 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
I just set up an account with BudURL. Like some similar services it takes a long URL and shortens it. The twist with BudURL is that is includes analytics behind each link that you create. So, for example, you could include a BudURL link in a Twitter Tweet and then see analytics on any clicks [...]
Sat, January 17 2009 » Marketing, Software, Technical » No Comments
Sat, January 17 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Those of you who are familiar with the nuts and bolts of administering a Web server will know that it is a complex business. For this reason most people tend to use some form of administration software, for example WHM/cPanel or Plesk. This makes it a lot easier to add new virtual domains to server, [...]
Sat, January 3 2009 » Marketing » No Comments
