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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

Chapter 2. Introducing our Case Study—WPBizGuru

Throughout the book, we'll be using a case study based on a fictitious blog to demonstrate the concepts you'll be learning. It will be the basis for most of the tutorials in the rest of the book. In this chapter, we'll outline what we'll be doing to transform WPBizGuru from a mediocre blog into an all-singing, all-dancing traffic magnet.

As we discussed in Chapter 1, A Blog Less Ordinary What Makes a Great Blog?, a successful business blog is achieved by identifying strategic goals and applying these to the type of blog you are publishing. We will work through this process for WPBizGuru to give us a detailed plan of how the blog should be developed. You will then be in a position to apply the planning process to your own blog and identify what needs to be done to improve it.

Even though you may already have a live blog, you should...