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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
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Preface

Blog indexes and search engines


In Chapter 6, Search Engine Optimization, we discussed methods of optimizing your blog for the major search engines. However, there's a whole host of other search engines and indexes that are specifically for blogs. One of the most popular of these is Technorati (http://www.technorati.com). These search engines represent another great way of promoting your blog by getting it in front of another group of web searchers.

Ping-O-Matic

Luckily, WordPress makes it easy to get listed on the most popular blog indexes and search engines. These search engines compile their indexes from blogs pinging them.

Note

Ping is a mechanism by which blogs notify external servers (in this case, the search engines) that their content has been updated.

By default, WordPress is automatically...