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WordPress and Blogging Q and A - Tuesday night

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Not an April Fools Day joke. Almost every month I do a Q and A and figured I would start it early this month.
So tomorrow night at 9pm edt I’ll answer your questions.
Full details at
WordPress Q and A
You can stop there now and leave your questions then come back tomorrow and either call in or [...]

How do I do a podcast?

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Today’s question:

I enjoyed your squidoo podcast with Bob. How to do this?

That podcast was a teleseminar that Bob and I did. The service I was using then is free and they record it for you . You can get an account at The Basemenet Ventures.
I then downloaded the mp3 from them of the recording and [...]

 
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Ranking question for long tail words

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Todays question:
I have a Minneapolis real estate website a. I also have about 50 interior pages written for 50 different communities surrounding Minneapolis. . “minneapolis real estate” is ranking very well in Google. How do I get these other cities to rank??
This is a bit different than most questions. You have a website and a [...]

Using a Mac with WordPress

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Today’s question:

Plugins, RSS feeds, autoresponders, how do I get this stuff through C panel on a Mac.

Now all of this will be second hand. I have never used a Mac but I am considering one for my next computer because you can now run there os and xp on the new ones.
I did some checking [...]

.htaccess file questions

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Today’s question is:

Under options, permalinks, I set the field to “custom” and added the /%category%/%postname%/ to make it SEO friendly.
I got this message below. I don’t have a clue what to do with this instruction or what it means.
If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are [...]

 
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Why a conversation with your customers is important

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Just saw this You Tube video that I thought shows the change in consumer mentality that the web has brought about.
Having conversations is important and a blog allows you to do just that.
Enjoy.

 
Now let me know your opinion and we can have a conversation here.
Mike Paetzold
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Do I need to do keyword research to have a profitable blog?

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Todays Question is:

Do I need to do keyword research to have a profitable blog?

Keyword research is probably the most overlooked aspect most new people trying to create a profitable blog skip.
Knowing which terms are searched for and what type of competition can be the key to get targeted traffic. This is really key if you [...]

Can you have more than one blog on a domain?

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Here is today’s question from the Q and A call.

My question is can you have more than one blog on one domain? Like www.yourdomain.com/blog/ and then have another blog at www.yourdomain.com/wdbog/ ? Is this possible or should someone get different domains for each blog?

This is a good question which is why I wanted to answer [...]

 
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Last night’s Q and A call

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

The replay is available of last night’s call.
Call Replay
There were some great questions asked and hopefully the answers are good too.
Hope you enjoy.
Mike Paetzold
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Q and A Call tonight at 9pm edt

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Just a quick note that I will be doing a Q and A call this evening at 9pm edt.
You can listen online or call in your choice.
Details are below:
EVENT: Blog questions and answers
DATE & TIME: Wednesday, March 12th at 9:00pm Eastern
FORMAT: Simulcast! (Attend via Phone or Webcast — it’s your choice)
TO ATTEND THIS EVENT, CLICK [...]

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