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WordPress 3 For Business Bloggers

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WordPress 3 For Business Bloggers

Overview of this book

WordPress makes the business of blogging easy. But there’s more to a successful business blog than just churning out posts. You need to understand the advanced marketing and promotion techniques to make your blog stand out from the crowd, attract visitors, benefit your brand, and deliver a worthwhile return on your investment.WordPress 3 for Business Bloggers shows you how to use WordPress to run your business blog. It covers everything you need to develop a custom look for your blog, use analytics to understand your visitors, market your blog online, and foster connections with other bloggers to increase your traffic and the value of your blog.You begin by identifying your blog’s strategic goals before going step-by-step through the advanced techniques that will grow your blog to its full business potential.You will learn how to build a custom theme for your blog and incorporate multimedia content like images and video. Advanced promotion techniques like SEO and social media marketing are covered in detail before you learn how to monetize your blog and manage its growth.WordPress 3 for Business Bloggers will help you to create a blog that brings real benefits to your business.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 3 for Business Bloggers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Paid reviews


Paid reviews are a contentious issue in the blogosphere. As the name suggests, the practice involves bloggers receiving a payment from a company in exchange for reviewing that company's product or service. Many bloggers have ethical objections because they believe paid reviews can mislead readers, and distort the spirit of blogging, which, in its early days, was not about making money. I mention paid reviews here because they can be a useful source of revenue. But think carefully before using them as you could upset a sizeable proportion of your readers (and other bloggers).

Note

Disclosure

If you do use paid reviews, I strongly recommend that you disclose this to your readers. Having a disclosure statement on your About page, outlining how you make money from your blog, is a best practice you should implement...