Isn’t it just so frustrating when you go to create a new category or update one and you get a message saying “Category not updated.”
Initially it was put down to a bug within WordPress 2.5 but, I can assure you it isn’t. If you receive the “Category not updated” error message, you’ll want to check out these simple fixes:
- Ensure you don’t have a blog post or page with the same title slug as the category you’re trying to create
- Check that you don’t already have a post tag assigned to a post with the same named slug
Gary Vaynerchuk is seemingly as frustrated as I am with people who want to make money online but want to avoid hard work.
I insist, if anyone finds that five page Best Seller book, please send it to me. Then and only then will I accept that it’s “possible” to build a list and make money with a blog which has five blog posts on it.
Some months ago, John Reese posted an interesting article on his blog, where he asked the question, ”can you make more money by marketing to fewer people?” He goes on to explain why this is the best way to market your products and services online.
I won’t repeat his full post here because you can read it at his blog.
The logic behind what he says will still be ignored by the majority who market online
In 2009, the big thing online was about getting your videos on YouTube or Google Video but in my view, 2010 and beyond will demand much more than creating a video or even putting it up on video sharing sites.
In 2010 and beyond, if you want to be noticed, you’re going to have to make more noise! In other words, your videos are going to have to stand out and be heard as well as seen.
If you want to stand out from the crowd, you have to make your videos viral.
Happy New Year to my friends in Honk Kong and anywhere else in the world that have already celebrated the start of 2010.
I’m sure you’ve had all of the emails suggesting you buy this, that and the other before 2010 if you want to have the best year ever but this isn’t one of those blog posts.
I just want to encourage you to “take out,” meaning “kill” one giant at a time in 2010.
One of the questions I’m frequently asked is “how do I write a blog post so it gets noticed?”
The first thing to consider is that when you are writing your blog posts, you have to please both the search engine spiders as well as your human visitors, but despite what you may have heard, Google for example is much more interested in you making your articles readable to your readers. There are however easy ways of creating great blog posts so you please both.
If you’re using the standard text editor that comes with WordPress, it really might be time for you to consider an upgrade.
It’s cheap, in fact free and, it will help you style your blog posts in a way that is appealing to your readers. With this text editor, you can change the color, style, and size of the font and, it will enable you to add tables to your blog posts without having to code it.
… And, I called into a radio show for the first time ever to speak about my experience of working from home!
I never listen to radio these days, but the stereo in my car isn’t working at the moment and this morning as I tuned into Radio Bristol, I heard Graham Torrington talk about the new Home Business Report that was released today and he got my attention.
I live in Bristol, UK and we are apparently second only to London in the number of people running their business from home, as people are moving away from the workplace for better work-life balance and to cut costs during the recession.
I admit, of all the strategies to build traffic to my blog, commenting on other blogs always came bottom for me.
However, I listened to the likes of Dave Taylor, who suggests you should comment on other blogs about four times per week, and some months back decided I would make more effort to post more comments. Now, I’m going to highlight my results …
Initially, the response was poor to say the least. I didn’t really get much traffic and if someone contacted me via my online form, it was to ask me to join their group so they could suck out my brains or, the best one is, they wanted to know whether I built blogs for free! I won’t even comment on this one.
One of the biggest problems I face as an online marketing consultant is to get people to provide content.
I’m convinced that the myth of putting up a one page site to sell a product has permeated the very marrow of our bones that when it comes to blogging, we think the same thing is true. The reality of it though is that even if that was the case many, many years ago, it certainly is far from the truth today.
