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More WordPress Plugins: Keywords, Performance and Social Share

Brian McDonald — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 05:05:56 +0000

I love discovering WordPress plugins that work and help with marketing your website. My first WordPress plugin post listed 3 awesome plugins for search engine optimization (SEO), link tracking and personalization. This time I’ve found 3 more awesome wordpress plugins for keywords, site performance and social share. Keyword Statistics Keyword Statistics helps optimize your WordPress blog for [...]

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WordPress vs. Joomla vs. Drupal Infographic

Brian McDonald — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:14:38 +0000

With the choices in open source content management systems (CMS) this infographic from Devious Media compares WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. I’ve used WordPress and Joomla to build sites and found both of them robust with many features available. WordPress I favor for its greater ease of use and wealth of plugins and available knowledge base [...]

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Rein in Your Event Hashtags

Brian McDonald — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:39:54 +0000

I saw the program for a social media conference recently that had 16 unique hashtags peppered throughout the agenda program. My first reaction was why? Some of the hashtags were the city and state name of the event location while others were plain generic like #Day1 and #blogging. The event had a unique name that should have [...]

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6 Marketing Myths Busted!

Brian McDonald — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:38:32 +0000

Some days I get down when reading blog posts, discussions, seeing speakers talk about new marketing channels like social media or paid search. I have to remind myself that we live in a world where everyone is getting their mega horn on to blast out opinions. Some are on target, others a bit skewed and [...]

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I’m Joining MedThink Communications

Brian McDonald — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:32:31 +0000

This past year has been very exciting, frustrating, fun and challenging all at the same time. After spending several years as a marketing director for Zencos Consulting I found myself at a crossroads about 15 months ago. I decided to take a chance and works as an independent freelancer and did that over the past [...]

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3 Awesome WordPress Plugins for SEO, Links and Personalization

Brian McDonald — Wed, 11 May 2011 12:49:44 +0000

Awesome WordPress Plugins If you use WordPress for a small to medium sized business website then this post is for you. Over the past several months I have discovered some awesome WordPress plugins that can help you with your Search Engine Optimization (SEO), link management and create custom pages with dynamic widget management. WordPress SEO [...]

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Are Mommy Bloggers Taking over the World?

Brian McDonald — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:09:19 +0000

The New York Times ran a great article about Heather Armstrong last Saturday called Queen of the Mommy Bloggers. Who is Heather Armstrong you say and why should we care? Well Heather is better known in the online world as Dooce (@dooce) and is one of the most influential women in media reaching an estimated 100,000 [...]

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Create Your Own URL Shortener

Brian McDonald — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:45:02 +0000

Bit.ly, ow.ly, tinyurl are just a few of the free services that allow you to shorten your links for social media and analytical tracking. But you can now have the power of these free services with your own custom short URL using YOURLS which stands for Your Own URL Shortener. YOURLS is a free application [...]

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End of the Year Blog Checklist

Brian McDonald — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:27:06 +0000

Blog Tune Up As the year winds down we typically find ourselves reflecting on the events of the current year as well as dealing with all those tasks we’ve put off. Now is a great time to review your blog and perform your blog tune up to maximize performance and review any enhancements you put [...]

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Employing the Web to Spread Your Story

Brian McDonald — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:50:50 +0000

In my last post I talked about what makes a good storyteller and I thought this post would be a good follow up to talk about how to use the web and social networks to spread your story. Now we all love a good story and want to share with our friends. But if you [...]

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