WordPress.com: Who Follows Who?

Every blogger wants to attract followers to their blog. Attracting followers requires identifying your target audience, and creating quality content that engages them and encourages them to return to read more. WordPress.com bloggers have always had a strong sense of community and not to be outdone by those other sites that have click and follow buttons WordPress.com Staff have been introducing incremental changes to the former “subscribe” function. The first change occurred when the “subscribe” link on the Admin bar visible to all logged in WordPress.com users changed to “follow”.  Continue reading

Create a WordPress.com Website

peopleBlogs are a powerful way for individuals and businesses to attract viewers and turn them into loyal subscribers and/or paying customers.  There is no one correct way to move visitors around your site but good design means easy navigation. Structuring a reader and search engine friendly site is critical to success. Continue reading

6 Easy Ways to Feature Older Content

If you have being blogging regularly then you will have an archive of articles that are no longer on the front page of your WordPress blog.  The WordPress.com Top Posts Widget displays your most popular posts as of the last 48 hours. The Top Rated Widget displays which of your pages, posts, and/or comments have the highest ratings. But the posts you may want to call reader attention to may not be among them. What to do if they aren’t?   Continue reading

12 Tips for Improving Search Queries Ranking Position

google magnifying glass Google announced, starting today,  we’re updating our Top Search Queries feature to make it better match expectations about search engine rankings.  “The new definition will take the average of the top ranking of your site for all searchers, as opposed to all URLs listed and average that. In the past, they would take all the positions of your rankings and average them together, now they are taking only the top positions.” — Google Changes Definition Of Average Search Ranking Position. Continue reading

Key 10 Questions for Bloggers

calendarYour writing focus can be easily lost when things you have yet to do are on your mind. Most often, there is no way to get those things out of your mind so you can concentrate on content creation unless you organize them and schedule them.  Likewise your writing focus can also be easily lost if you get caught up in social networking unless you organize, create a schedule and stick to it. Continue reading