Website Content Management Systems – Blessing or Curse?

It’s true, website Content Management Systems (CMS) such as WordPress, Joomla and Drupal certainly make it easier for small business people to edit their content and make changes on their site. But is it a little too easy? When working directly on websites, I have enjoyed the ease of changing copy, hyperlinks and tags inside WordPress. But I am extremely careful when editing in “the...

Making Your WordPress Website Easy to Track Visitors

WordPress is gaining numbers to become the most popular self-hosted blog — and I should think, the “people’s choice” CMS (Content Management System).  Here in Australia, large numbers of small business people are getting a WordPress website customised by a developer, then scratching their head: “how do I use WordPress to make my life easier?” As a business owner or...

The Problem with Writing “Dead End” Blog Content

With the competitive online world today, your website may well struggle to keep its place. But continually updating content or creating new articles is something that most business owners have little time or head-space for. Or they may have a go and then give up, mainly unsuccessful because the content was too ‘separated’… that is, separate from your other business material. In...

Get More Bang for Your Press Release Buck

Once you have gained some momentum with writing a press release every month for your local newspapers or industry magazines, you might want to consider rewording it slightly for SEO purposes. If you’re an SME or internet business and you’re not releasing news once per month, then you may never be written up in the media! Sure, if you’ve just cycled across Australia (like Brenda...

A Content Writer Who Cares for Your Blog

If you a professional wanting to create a blog or keep a blog updated, you may have considered outsourcing the content writing. So, say you trotted along to several crowd-sourcing sites where freelance writers place bids for your work. It all seems very cheap. But what happens after the project bid is accepted and work begins? Many times these writing freelancers come from India, Sri Lanka, or...