WordPress has many features that make it ideal for building traffic and your business.
Social Network Mapping with Kartoo at D’Arcy Norman Dot Net
I read a lot of Blogs to learn about the Internet and marketing. A system administrator at the University of Calgary wrote about Kartoo– a social networking search application. It generates a very cool bunch of maps on relationships on the web- an interesting look at search. Of course I did an ego search just like he did- and saw how my sphere of influence is represented on the web. While Google is the by far the leader in Search- there are other ways to look at the web – this is why sites built with web standard code are so important- and why WordPress is such a good tool for managing at least part of your site.
The Internet Marketing Institute
Well- they say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery- so I love that Wright State Professor, Dr. Jerry R. Perrich is teaching a 3.5 hr seminar that will “Cover how the internet and search engines work, successful online business models, how to generate site traffic and measure web performance”- which is just some of what we cover in a Blogosopher seminar.
Of course if you go to his site- there is no RSS, no community building features of the live web, and- sadly- a broken link to his “training course.”
(I’ve included screen shot so once he fixes the link there is still proof- click for enlarged view in a new window – remember- it will say “page not found”- because that’s what his page says- not because you are getting to the wrong place)
If you want a “class about using the web for your work” as the Dayton Daily News headline described this course- you should consider our Blogosopher seminar. Not only do we teach the latest technology, we use it daily- not just for this site, but for our client’s sites. We will get you to the top of the search engines like we helped Charles Halton and continue to provide you valuable tips and tricks via this site on how to get the most out of your site.
You can sign up right on our site and pay online- unlike Dr. Perrich’s course “How To Drive Traffic To Your Website…
and What To Do When It Gets There”
The workshop that shows how to make the Internet work for you.” If you live in or around Dayton, you also have 2 opportunities to take our course before his: Jan 19th and Feb 4th. I plan on taking his course on the 9th and incorporating anything I might want to add to blogosopher. One other note- with our seminar- you get one free return refresher course- because there is so much information presented.
As one last piece of proof of knowing how to work the search engines, here is our google tip in action: if you want to know how many pages of your site google has indexed and how they appear go to google and type in: site:yourdomainname.com and you will see the number of results.
For site:blogosopher.com Results 1 – 30 of about 42 from blogosopher.com for . (0.15 seconds)
for site:websmartbusiness.com Results 1 – 6 of about 7 from websmartbusiness.com for . (0.21 seconds)
That’s 36 more reasons to take a Blogosopher seminar.
Hopefully, I’ll see you in a Blogosopher seminar soon. Thanks.
Post note: to add insult to injury- I tried to register on their form- it wouldn’t work. So I sent them an e-mail- and it bounced:
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: [email protected] SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:: host mx.websmartbusiness.com [65.254.254.50]: 550 mail08: Host XX.XXX.XX.XX, error: R5.1
Don’t go out looking for a “WordPress for dummies” book- it will be obsolete before it’s off the presses. WordPress isn’t that complicated and you really can’t screw your site up too badly no matter how hard you try.
The biggest mistake a beginner can make is by changing to a theme that doesn’t have a log-in button- and they can’t figure out how to get back to the dashboard. No worry here- just go to www.yourblogname.com/wp-admin and then type in your user name and password. The user name is typically “Admin” if it’s your blog.
The other place you can screw things up is under the Options menu- by changing the location of your blog. If you happen to do this, someone who knows how to access your MySQL database on your server can get in and change it back.
Other than those two issues- (and it there are others- please feel free to add comments) the most you can lose is a post or page unless your sever crashes. That’s why it’s a good idea to enable the WordPress database back-up plugin in WordPress 2.0 and back up your data to your computer on a regular basis.
If you don’t understand something- and the question isn’t answered here- you can always e-mail me the question at [email protected]Â and I’ll try to post a response soon.
Your other solution is to Google your question- more than likely someone has already answered your question online- just type in “WordPress” and “your question” and you should find an answer quickly.
The WordPress documentation on the codex http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page is full of good stuff and getting better every day.
And if you solve a problem on your own, and you didn’t find a good answer with Google- post it in your blog, so you can help others.