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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

Chapter 7. Supercharged Promotion

You can't rely solely on search engines to spread the word about your blog. In order to supercharge your promotion campaign, you need to get creative.

Promoting your blog and steadily growing your traffic volume is a long, hard job. In fact, it's never ending. A large part of your time should be spent on your promotional work. Indeed, you'll probably need to spend much more time on this than actually writing posts. The key to success is getting to know how the blogosphere works and learning about the tools, websites, and social networks that can help you along the way.

In this chapter, we will examine some of the options available to build up your promotional arsenal. It's by no means an exhaustive reference, but it should get you going. Hopefully, the tips and tricks here will get you thinking more creatively about your promotion work. This chapter...