So, take advantage of our Valentine's Day Coaching Special. For $55.00, you will get 120 minutes of LIVE coaching with me! This special consists of (2) of the following services:

• Blog Tune-Up and Evaluation

• Google Analytic Review

• Search Engine Optimization

• Search Engine Marketing

• Video Marketing

• Word Press Tutorial

• RSS/Feedburner Setup

• Facebook Marketing

• Twitter Marketing

• LinkedIn Marketing

• Blog/Social Network Streamlining

What Are Dirty URLs?
While websurfing, I have noticed some dirty urls that should be avoided.

Here are a few examples:
http://mywebiste.com/?p=46
or http://mywebsite.com/pl?id=4&view=basic

“Dirty url” is known to confuse the heck out of the search spiders. If you have a look at the above url, would you ever recall the link off the top of your head and/or determine the keywords pertaining to the post? Probably, not!
Spiders, also known as crawlers, follow and crawls links throughout the internet, seeking contents and adding them into the search engine indexes.  The more confusing links to your site, the less likely the search spider will crawl and index all of your pages.

Making a Dirty URL Clean and SEO Friendly
Fortunately, Word press provides options to customize your website url structure to improve search engine ranking and sharing compatibility.

Here’s is quick solution:

• Login your WP Dashboard

• Click on Permalink under the Setting Tab

• Under Common Setting, UnCheck Default

• Click on Custom Structure and add the following code: /%category%/%postname%/ - (displays category and post name) or /%postname% – (displays post name )(Categories and post name should be keywords rich)

• Click on Save Changes

Here’s an example of a “Clean and SEO Friendly URL”

http://mywebsite.com/postname

A clean url helps your visitors recall your website pages, helps the search engine determine what your pages are about and optimize your website for your keywords. For any social media tips or dirty url problems, please contact me.

Here are a few of the questions we covered:

1. How many keyword phrases should I include in my blog?
2. How many times a day should I promote my blog on multiple social media platforms?
3. How many words should my blog post contain?
4. In your opinion is blogging an effective way of promoting one’s business or a way to highlight industry trends?
5. Is adding pictures and graphics effective in a blog?

To hear the show with Reggie Juzang, please visit Blogging Basic Q&A Discussion.

Cut and paste link into the following template:

<a href=http://nameofthewebsitetodirect.com><img src="nameofthelocationoftheimage.jpg" width="250" height="250"/></a>

Happy Blogging!

Step 1: Log into your WP account.

Step 2: Under Plugins  scroll down to Add New

Step 3: Under Search, type in the plugins by name, author or tags

Step 4: Click on Search

Step 5: Once you have located the correct plugin, click on Install

Step 6: Click on Install in the Description window

Step 7: Go back to Plugins Menu and scroll down to Installed

Step 8: Scroll down to recent installed plugins and click on activate.

I'm curious!  Which plugins have you recently installed  for your WordPress blog? How has it been beneficial to your audience?

2. Comment on other Blogs – In my early days of blogging, I thought my blog should be the only platform for communicating and engaging my audience. This misconception prohibited me from seeing the real power of blogging. Most blogging platforms allow you to insert your web url when you comment. What does that mean? Exactly, more traffic for your blog!

3. Have a RSS to Email option: Many people may not be familiar with RSS feeds or how to use and implement them. So allow your visitors to stay updated with your postings, offer that option to provide an RSS feed directly to their email. Feedburner provides this option by simply copying and pasting some code.

4. Use Twitterfeed. Twitterfeed is one of my favorite productivity tools. Twitterfeed allows you to automatically post what you have published on your blog to Twitter and Facebook.

5. Use All-In-One-SEO for WordPress: Not all of us are cut out to be SEO experts. A year ago, I had installed a free WordPress Plugin called All-In-One-SEO. However, failed to realize how essential this tool could have been on my search engine results. The All-In-One-SEO plugin helps optimize your blog for better search engine ranking. Inserting relevant keywords in the title, a short description and a few other keywords, your chances of landing on the first page of Google will be greatly increased.

6. Link Your Social Networking Profile to Your Blog (and vice versa): When I first started blogging, I thought this would be a given, but I still see too many blogs without a link to their Twitter and Facebook profiles. Always, give your visitors other ways to connect with you. Encourage your prospects to connect with you on LinkedIn, follow you on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.

7. Avoid free WordPress Theme/Template: Believe me when I say this. “Free” sounds wonderful to us, but you get what you pay for. The free theme looked appealing, but some of the codes are not editable or readable which is usually the case for templates.

8. Use Analytics: I used Google Analytics along with my WordPress stats for tracking and researching. It has been a real adventure watching my traffic grow as a direct result of the tools and tactics I use.

9. Have a call to action: Once again, this is an incredibly overlooked strategy. Ask yourself, what action do you want your new visitors to take when coming to your blog? The first year, I set a goal to brand myself as a thought leader in the Social Media industry. Nevertheless, the problem was how can I make others understand what the heck I am saying and how can I get them to come back for more. Therefore, I decided to create an introductory video explaining what the site is all about and to encourage them to subscribe. Now, that is a call to action.

10. Use Different forms of media: People react differently to visual and audio media versus text. Use other forms of digital media to communicate your message to your audience. Using audio and video help show your true personality and highlights the style of your blog. It is another way of entertaining your community. Not just in a joking manner! Audio and video has made a tremendous impact of my communication strategy. I was told that my videos show my cute personality and my audios show my inspiring but tough love. These are my characteristics, my DNA, my brand.

We are all publishers! Blogging is one of the easiest tools to use to communicate with your customers. Do not feel intimated. Just be yourself, have fun and build a community!