Updating content is one of the best ways to revitalize and breath fresh life into your old blog posts. It can help generate fresh interest from readers and drive new traffic to your blog. Creating content for your blog takes time and effort. It  makes sense to ensure you receive maximum leverage and benefits from your content.
In an earlier post on this blog, we had covered 10 ways to breathe life into your old blog posts. In this post we are going to look at some additional ways this can …

There are many WordPress Social Media plugins that allow you to improve reader engagement. Promoting reader engagement involves keeping them interested and involved in your blog as well as encouraging them to participate in discussions and share your content with others on various social networks. Social engagement is important for improving the quality of your readership and growing traffic to your site. Fostering strong connections and improving customer engagement is vital to the long term success of your blog.
There are many ways to engage your readers, encourage participation and build …

Most blogs display the publish date on all their posts. The blog post date is typically displayed under the title of the posts, in the comments, and this is in-turn picked up by search engines and displayed on search result pages.
See image below of dates which are passed on to Google search results
One of the main problems with displaying dates on posts is that search engines and readers may associate the information on your older posts to be out of date. Readers may end up assuming it has lost its …

A majority of blogs display the dates on all their blog posts. This is typically the publish date of the post and is displayed under the title. Dates are also displayed in comments. Additionally, the date of the post is also picked up by search engines and displayed next to the post on search engine results.

Although dates are important for time sensitive information such as news stories or current trends, a majority of the blog posts cover general topics that are timeless.
If you take a closer look at your blog, …

Discussed below are 15 Blog Post Topics for business blogs. Finding topics to write about is one of the biggest challenges faced by companies who run a blog on their website. Over the years many businesses have realised the importance of blogging for business. In fact most new corporate websites, small or large now include a blog.
One of the main problems with business blogs however is the frequency at which they are updated. While those who are serious of their web presence manage to post regularly on their blog, others …

Best WordPress Twitter plugins is a list of useful plugins to integrate Twitter with your WordPress blog.  Social sites like Twitter are used widely to promote blog posts and for driving traffic to your website or blog. Social searches are increasingly represented at the top of search engine rankings. Whether you want to become a professional blogger or enhance your company’s brand profile on the internet, It is this important to ensure the content on your website is effectively syndicated on social channels like Twitter. The use of Twitter to …

WordPress posts and pages, by default stand a better chance of ranking high on search engines compared with other CMS and blogging platforms. For this reason, WordPress blogs play an important role in the overall SEO strategy of many websites. With the right customisation and tools, you can ensure your blog posts receive maximum coverage on search engines with minimal ongoing effort.
5 WordPress SEO Plugins
1) All in one SEO Plugin
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You can customise each post on your blog for maximum search engine results. It provides full control over assigning Titles, …

1) WordPress Related Posts
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Related posts is a great way to improve retention and page views as it encourages visitors to remain on the site and explore further. It also aids navigation and offers another way for visitors to find content they are interested in.
2) Top Commentators Pluign
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The plugin comes with a widget that displays a list of top commentators on the sidebar of your blog. You can choose to display top commentators by month, week or from the start. This is an effective way to attract participation …

There are many free WordPress themes available on the Internet. However not all the themes offer the level of quality and originality you may be after. Whether you are blogger or a business, including a WordPress blog on your website offers many advantages. In order to ensure the blog is in line with the branding of the company, one may need to commission a custom design from a Web Design Company or professional designer. In practice however it may not always be feasible to justify the higher costs involved in …

When you are designing a website for your company, you will be presented with a choice of many open source web design or content management systems. Of the many web publishing platforms, Joomla, WordPress, Typo3 and Drupal are some of the most popular and widely used. For E-commerce websites Magento, OsCommerce and Joomla compatible Virtuemart are some of the widely used open source platforms.
Although most platforms can be used for developing professional websites of any kindm many professional web designers favour Joomla for developing websites and WordPress for a blog.
Both …