Wordpress blog not in google (only showing url and no description)

I found a lot of my wordpress blogs were not in google (only showing the url and no description).  Heres how to fix it login to admin panel and go to:
Settings > privacy >
and check ‘I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Sphere, Technorati) and archivers’

Add comment August 17th, 2009

How to test which page is best for your website

I just thought I would write a quick post on how to test which version of a page is best for your website. Basically you can use google website optimizer a program that lets you create 2 or more pages and test which one works best. You really need to have a goal in mind for the page.

Add comment July 17th, 2009

Web Marketing Quotes

“At the exact point when your customer has to start filling in a form with personal information, reassure the customer that privacy is sacred to you.” – Bryan & Jeff Eisenberg

“Online, things can live on forever, getting discovered by new audiences
years after they originally launched”

- PSFK, November 2006

“If Myspace were a country, it owuld be 10th biggest in the world, just behind Mexico” – Guardian, November 4, 2006

Add comment October 16th, 2008

Open coffee meet other entrepreneurs in your area

Open coffee is a site that will allow you to meet up with other entrepreneurs in your area http://opencoffee.ning.com/. The problem for me is that the place I live is not a major city therefore it’s difficult to find anyone to meet up with. If you live in one of the big cities around the world it’ll be good for you

Add comment March 30th, 2008

Working full time and running a business part time

Currently I work full time 37+ hours a week in a computing job and also run a business part time making websites. So what are the pros and cons of working in this way?

Pros:

• You get a regular salary from your job
• You can re-invest anything you make from your business as you don’t need to live off the profits
• You get pensions (if your employer pays into them) etc but really these aren’t really worth much unless you work for a long time (30+ years or something).
• Sick pay – if your sick you get paid from work
• You’re not solely reliant on your job for income.
• In your business you control everything
• What you learn at work can help your business and vice versa.

Cons:

• Not much spare time. Currently I get up at 6:50 am, go to work then finish work at around 5 o’clock. It takes me an hour to travel home. I grab something to eat then work for a few hours on my sites. On weekends I tend to work on my sites as well. This leaves me pretty tired.
• Not enough time to spend on your business. It’s hard to compete with other full time businesses when you are only working part time.
• Stress – you get it from work and also when you go home from your business for example the other week I found that all my servers were down and I needed to sort it out as soon as I got home even though I’d had a tough day at work.
• At work you tend to be a small part of everything

In summary I think that this is the best way to grow your business until it’s at a point where you’re making more than your full time job and need to quit it to grow your business further.

3 comments February 3rd, 2008

How to get youtube on your wordpress blog

I had been trying to get youtube videos on my wordpress blog for ages. Eventually I found out how by asking matt on msn (http://www.takemorerisks.com) basically this plugin http://www.paulbain.co.uk/simple-youtube-plugin-for-wordpress-easytube/ works great and its easy to use. The only thing to note is that when you go into your post editor/writing thing you need to change it to code when you put the url in the square brackets or it will try to stick the html code in for the link. I have a video example below.

Add comment September 2nd, 2007

Social bookmarking buttons code traffic

visit http://www.addthis.com and add the bookmarking button to your website. It will help users to bookmark your pages in delicious and quite a few of the other social media sites.

1 comment September 2nd, 2007

Diversifying my website income

Like a lot of web entrepreneurs I only really use google adsense on my sites.

I like adsense but I think I am just too dependant on it. What I have promised myself I would do is to try to diversify my income. So I have started making money from directory submissions (www.bizbookmarks.com, themetree.com, bizsocial.com), parking my unused domains (I should have done this a long time ago) at auctionads which basically allows you to put ebay ads on your site, its quite similar to adsense in the way it works.

I have also got another advertiser from text link ads (see $100 in FREE Links) on this blog see, Technology public relations at the footer of this blog in the red box.

Update on the bank card fraud: I have submitted a disputes form to my bank.

Add comment June 11th, 2007

The importance of having a robots.txt file

I didn’t really place much importance on having a robots.txt file hence some of my sites had one and some others didn’t.  Now the problem with not having one is that if Google cannot find your robots.txt file and doesn’t get a 404 page not found error, Google won’t spider (crawl/index) your site. 

 

This created the problem of my homepages not being indexed but the rest of the site was. I found this problem by logging into sitemaps and verifying my site.

Add comment June 3rd, 2007

Running a website business

Since we are living in the century of speed and technology, more and more people prefer to run businesses from home, and especially website business. I personally run a website business, so I will share with you some of my experience and give you some tips on how you should run such a business.

 

First of all, do not look at this matter as to a complex and complicated deal. A website business is not much different from any ordinary business. Just think at it as if you would run a gift shop, a book store, a restaurant or any other business. You wouldn’t do one of these businesses without growing and promoting it, would you? Put in this perspective, your website should be run exactly the same way you would treat one of these brick-and-mortars. Every business requires an inventory, proper management, advertising, and several other operations. All these are done for a growing prosper business.

 

What you need to know is that the world of websites has suffered important changes. Competition at this level is an important aspect. Therefore, perseveration and a lot of work are required. A proper site management is the key of success. As in any other business, the key of success can be resumed to three aspects: proper planning, timing and naturally a little bit of luck. So, before you start a website business, you must know exactly what is selling best on the on-line market. So, you must carefully study the market, the trends, the competitors, and only after that make the final decision related to what you will be selling.

Then you will have to worry about the number of visitors on your site. As a tip for you, know that most of the online users need to have a reason to visit your website. So, the easiest and meanwhile the best way to generate interest from the internet users is to offer them soothing to do on your website. So, forums, games, downloads, entertainment, blogs and so on can be of great help. Also, do not forget to design your website properly and to make it as attractive as possible. This aspect can be improved simply by asking the visitors in a special forum.

 

Search engines and search directories are highly important in the world of website businesses so this aspect must never be disconsidered. If you do that, some visitors will never even know that your site exists. A website with good search engine listing placement will see a dramatic increase in traffic. This means one important thing: lots of online viewers are coming to your website. Zero traffic equates to zero sales. And this normally leads to capital loss.

Add comment May 28th, 2007