Here are a few good plugins for adding various social media sharing buttons / follow us buttons to your WordPress blog posts: 1) Social Media Widget   2) AddThis Plugin   3) Socialize This   All of these buttons offer a nice variety of icon types to choose from, and all feature some nice large [...]

Here I’ll quickly show you a snippet of code to add a Twitter ‘Tweet’ button above or below your WordPress posts. Paste this into your WordPress theme’s functions.php file (located in /wp-content/themes/your_theme_name/) to embed the button above posts: And paste this into functions.php to embed the button below posts: If you’d like to display a [...]

I just want to quickly share some general pointers on how you as a site owner can get your site and its content to show up higher for relevant search terms in search engines like Google and Bing. So here we go: 1) Get Blogging One of the best ways to get your site noticed [...]

If you are an individual looking to carve out your own place on the web, or a business owner curious how to leverage the possibilities having an online presence can open up for you, then this post might interest you. I’m going to outline a few general options individuals and small business owners can take [...]

Here’s another useful tool from Google which offers information about search volume patterns, as well as information on the search volume of ‘rising searches’ — “searches that have experienced significant growth in a given time period.” Simply go to Google Insights for Search and enter the keyword(s) you’d like data on, specifying any particular time [...]

I have recently been informed of the existence of an extremely handy web marketing tool, and best of all, it’s free. The Google AdWords: Keyword Tool lets anyone with an internet connection search for information on a single keyword or a combination of keywords and receive data concerning how many monthly searches the chosen keywords [...]