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• 10 Useful WordPress Plugins for Blog Marketing (quickonlinetips.com)
• WordPress speed tricks (tomaltman.com)

It’s important to remind yourself to be OF the blogosphere/social media universe, rather than a mere observer/exploiter. Think of it– you can spot a blatantly self-interested spam-meister in a single glance, can’t you? Well, so can everyone else.

Thing is, some people don’t really reach out correctly to influencers. They don’t read 20 blog posts and comments. They don’t follow guidelines on contact form policies on what will be covered and what won’t be. Influencer outreach may possibly be the most powerful outreach tactic that PR practitioners or marketers are laziest about. This turns bloggers sour, thinking that everyone in public relations or blogger outreach is just a spammer.

Read the whole article here. (Via Techipedia – Tami Weinberg)

• 7 influential thoughts on social media influence (swordandthescript.com)
• Guidelines To Becoming A Social Enterprise (webguild.org)
• Blogger outreach code of ethics (drewsmarketingminute.com)

I’ll tell you, other people make the case for using WordPress as the center of your nascent social media marketing empire a lot better than I do. So don’t take it from me…

We have all had websites that sit for months and some times years without getting updated because it’s too much of a pain to contact the original developer to make the edits, not to mention the hourly cost for their time to update a pricing page or new content.  If you can use Microsoft Word, you can update your WordPress website.  Want to add a photo or video? Add button, Select button, Insert button.

Read the whole article here (Via Clear Idea)

• Can WordPress bring your Social Media together? (blogmistress.com)
• Ten WordPress Plugins for Sharing in Social Media (globalthoughtz.com)

A few of our clients:

Seven North Web & GraphicsSt Pete’s Seven North Web & Graphics Social Media-Hub Website: Leveraging WordPress for Easy SEO and Lower Cost.

Our Philosophy: You should have total control and ownership of your site’s look, function and content, your hosting choices and your domain.

Our Policy: You select your hosting and domain registry provider (we can assist you with this if desired); You do your own content management (we can get you started and provide training or manage it.for you if desired.)

We will:

• Consult with your company about your Web Site, and
• Build a Social Media HUB-Web Site designed specifically for your business.

You Get:

• Theme Layout
• One hour of Design Time
• Web Log
• Two Blog Entries
• Content Pages
• Two Social Media Connections (Face book, Twitter, Youtube, Flickr, etc.)
• One Hour of Training- Content Management and Organic SEO Techniques.

We Install:

• Your Web Ready Content
• Links, Categories and Navigation
• Search Engine Optimization Plugins
• User-Centric Modifications
• Comment-Spam Protection
• Daily Backup System
• Google Analytics or similar tracking system
• Webmail Account
• Wysiwyg editing aids
• And more.

Starting At $799.00

Graphic Design: From business cards to billboards, we can design, manufacture and deliver all your print-media promotion at great prices.

Includes Option One – PLUS

• Custom or Premium Theme
• One extra hour of design time -( Total two hours).
• Four extra Social Media Connections (Total six)
• Ten Web Log entries (Total twelve)
• RSS News Feeds with content relevant to your industry.
• 2 Hours of Training (*Total three hours*) option one plus: Writing for the web and SEO, Business blogging, Social media marketing, Netiquette.

We teach you how to run your Social Media Marketing Empire effectively and efficiently.

1. Post to all your social applications at once, including your weblog – Free!
2. Use RSS feeds and specialized searches to gather industry news and media daily that you can use to blog, microblog, bookmark etc., which increases your authority, web ranking and reader base – Free!
3. Find out what customers are saying about you, your competitors and your industry in real time – Free!
4. Find out who visits your page and from where – Free!
5. Learn to use the free and honest way to increase your Search Engine Authority as recommended by Google – Free!
6. Learn the easy way to write copy for the web using your branding key words naturally for organic SEO – Free!

Starting At $1199.00

Call 727-894-5266 for more information.

*Re-pointing of existing domain ($50.00) *Logo design, if required, is additional

Call 727-894-5266 or email us to get a free quote or consultation from Seven North Graphics Web Design, St Petersburg, Tampa Bay, Florida.

Ready to roll up your sleeves and get a little technical? This piece will answer your questions about which links are most valuable if you are willing to give it a little attention and thought.

Speaking of correlation data, no single, simple metric is better correlated with rankings in Google’s results than the number of unique domains containing an external link to a given page. This strongly suggests that a diversity component is at play in the ranking systems and that it’s better to have 50 links from 50 different domains than to have 500 more links from a site that already links to you. Curiously again, the original PageRank algorithm makes no provision for this, which could be one reason sitewide links from domains with many high-PageRank pages worked so well in those early years after Google’s launch.

Read the whole article here.

St Pete’s Seven North Web Design & Graphics Social Media-Hub Website: Leveraging WordPress for Easy SEO and Lower Cost.

• What is PageRank Good for Anyway? (Statistics Galore) (seomoz.org)
• The Science of Ranking Correlations: How Does PageRank Perform? (seomoz.org)
• Increasing google page rank and gaining more visitors (slideshare.net)
• Google vs. Bing: Correlation Analysis of Ranking Elements (seomoz.org)

Call 727-894-5266 or email us to get a free quote or consultation from Seven North Graphics Web Design, St Petersburg, Tampa Bay, Florida.

Once again, we find that business, or at least the marketing business, is just high school with better clothes. Social media marketing can be an excuse to hang out and have a good juvenile fun while making a few bucks, or so says Mashable.

Hey there, ma and pop: Are you hip to Twitter ( ), Facebook ( ) and the myriad of other social media tools that are currently at your disposal — you know, the ones the teens and 20somethings have basically dovetailed into their everyday lives? Social media may seem like a vapid way for tweens to gossip about Twilight ( ) and the like, but it can be an effective (and fun) way to reach new customers and create stronger bonds with loyal fans. Read the whole article here.

St Pete’s Seven North Web Design & Graphics Social Media-Hub Website: Leveraging WordPress for Easy SEO and Lower Cost.

• 19 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed (mashable.com)
• How Social Media Has Radically Altered Advertising (e1evation.com)

Call 727-894-5266 or email us to get a free quote or consultation from Seven North Graphics Web Design, St Petersburg, Tampa Bay, Florida.

Don’t let this scare you, but the time to do some clear thinking about your social media marketing campaign is before you begin. This post, if read thoroughly, could lead to some very useful values clarification about your next few steps in social media presentation.

5. What feeling do we want to inspire in others through our interactions? What’s the takeaway for them beyond a “positive brand experience.” Get specific. If your brand is fun, it’s probably a good idea to extend that spirit of fun into your social web presence. 6. Will we be proactive in our conversations? Reactive? Both? If you’re using social media to address customer service issues, a reactive strategy might be best unless you’re incorporating a loyalty or rewards program into the strategy. This can be flexible, but there should be primary and secondary purposes for the presence on the social web for branded profiles.

Read the whole article here.

St Pete’s Seven North Web Design & Graphics Social Media-Hub Website: Leveraging WordPress for Easy SEO and Lower Cost.

• Running a Successful Social Media Campaign (compukol.com)
• Document 10 quick rules for using social media for artists (slideshare.net)
• More Than 50% Of Companies Admit To Using Social Media With No Strategy (webguild.org)

Call 727-894-5266 or email us to get a free quote or consultation from Seven North Graphics Web Design, St Petersburg, Tampa Bay, Florida.

“I don’t know what to write about”, or, “I don’t have time to blog”, usually translates to — “I am afraid of the blank page.” Not to worry, many well-known successful writers have the same fear at times.

This article presents strategies that will allow you to escape blogger’s block.

Every now and then I poll my blog readers and ask about their challenges with blogging. Without fail, most people say that their number-one challenge is that they don’t have time to write on their blog. Frankly, I think that is a false problem because you make time for what’s important. I suggest reframing the challenge from “I don’t have time to write on my blog” to “I make time to market my business.” In the context of your business, blogging is a marketing tool.

Read the whole article here.

St Pete’s Seven North Web Design & Graphics Social Media-Hub Website: Leveraging WordPress for Easy SEO and Lower Cost.

• What If We Had More Time To Blog (bloggingwithoutablog.com)
• Top 10 Reasons No One Reads Your Blog (quickonlinetips.com)
• Smarter Ways to Get Content Ideas for B2B Blogs (webguild.org)

Just Miata

A new client.

Call 727-894-5266 or email us to get a free quote or consultation from Seven North Graphics Web Design, St Petersburg, Tampa Bay, Florida.

We may have referenced this guide before, but it is worth pointing out again. The SEOmoz.org beginners guide to SEO is a great resource and will answer questions you didn’t think to ask.

The Beginner’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an in depth tutorial on how search engines work that covers the fundamental strategies that make websites search engine friendly. To download your copy of the world’s most read guide on SEO, join the community of SEOmoz PRO members. Read the whole article here.

St Pete’s Seven North Web Design & Graphics Social Media-Hub Website: Leveraging WordPress for Easy SEO and Lower Cost.

• Everything you need to know about SEO (socialmedia.biz)
• Small Business Guide to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) (socialreflections.com)