Best Premium Themes for Your WordPress Blog Design

January 24, 2009 Comments

Interactivewoo has hand-picked the best premium (and free) WordPress themes on the web with consideration for overall look, SEO, readability, flexibility, and more. As part of our blogging package, we’ll work together to find the best theme for you and work together to fully implement and customize your theme to your liking. Here’s a sample [...]

Who Else Wants a Great Blog Theme? – Free vs. Premium, Magazine vs. Traditional

November 28, 2008 Comments

One of the biggest struggles for new bloggers, or for anyone that is looking to freshen up a blog with a new theme, is the challenge of finding the right theme. Free or Premium? Magazine style or traditional blog style? Especially for WordPress users, there are so many choices with multiple types and variances in [...]

Web Hosting Service – 3 of the Best for Blogging

November 26, 2008 Comments

Every website on the internet is hosted on a server – which means that there are hundreds of thousands of web hosting companies to choose from to host your blog (why host?). As someone new to blogging, you don’t want to research and compare them all. You just want yours to work and be easy [...]

Top 10 Most Useful WordPress Plugins – Plus a Few More

November 21, 2008 Comments

The ability to install plugins is one of the major benefits of having a wordpress blog hosted on your own server WordPress plugins are free and download-able and can extend your WordPress blog to do almost anything you can imagine – from useful plugins that back up your database to “cool” plugins that customizing your [...]

How Long Should a Post be? Optimal Post Length

November 21, 2008 Comments

According to Darren Rowse at Problogger.net, there are a number of way to determine the optimal length for a blog post: Reader Attention Span – It is pretty well documented that the typical web reader has a short attention span when it comes to reading content online. The average blog readers stay 96 seconds per [...]

What is RSS? An Introduction to Feeds and Aggregators

November 20, 2008 Comments

Watch this video first: “RSS in Plain English” What is RSS? RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a technology that is being used by millions of web users around the world to keep track of new content on their favorite websites. In the old days of the web to keep track of updates on a website [...]

What is a Blog? Everything You Need to Know

November 20, 2008 Comments

Watch this video first: “Blogs in Plain English” Defining a Blog A blog is a type of website where content is organized in the form of posts. As described in the video above, posts are usually arranged in chronological order with the most recent at the top of the main page, keeping the content of [...]

How to Make a Blog – Start Your Own Blog Today

November 20, 2008 Comments

In the previous post “What is a Blog” I mentioned that the best way to learn about blogs is to start blogging yourself. So how can you get started today? You have two very good options: Start with WordPress.com Blogging is no longer only for the tech savvy. Anyone can start a blog very easily [...]

Why Host Your Blog on Your Own Server?

November 19, 2008 Comments

There are usually two options when it comes to deciding where to host your blog (where to store your blog on the internet): hosted on your Blog platform’s server or hosted on your own server. Hosted on the Blog Platform’s Servers Many people interested in blogging start with this type of blog because it is [...]

Top 10 Formulas for writing Blog Headlines that really work

July 27, 2008 Comments

1. Who Else Wants [blank]? Starting a headline with “Who Else Wants…” is a classic social proof strategy that implies an already existing consensus desire. While overused in the Internet marketing arena, it still works like gangbusters for other subject matter. Who Else Wants a Great Blog Template Design? Who Else Wants a Higher Paying [...]