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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

Alexa rankings


As well as monitoring your blog stats you may also want to keep an eye on your Alexa ranking. Don't get too hung up on the exact ranking, but use it as a way to track your progress. Maybe check your Alexa ranking once a month and make sure it's heading in the right direction. To see your ranking, go to http://www.alexa.com/topsites and enter your full URL into the search box. As you can see from the following screenshot, a new blog such as WPBizGuru that has virtually no traffic at present will have a seemingly abysmal ranking—it's way down at 22,794,407. However, you'll soon notice vast improvements even with fairly modest traffic growth.