The Advantages of a Blog are:

  • A Blog can be a Website as well as a Blog
  • You can set up your front page as a Static page or a blog
  • You could even have a free one (less options and flexibility)
  • You can install it into an existing website
  • You can maintain it yourself
  • You can choose from thousands of lay-out options
  • Thousands of plugins to choose from
  • Easy to have photos and videos on it.
  • Wordpress makes all this easy
  • Ongoing Free Information providing value leading to:

  • draws visitors to you
  • repeat visits
  • relationship with reader (rapport)
  • establishing trust (credibility)
  • Google ‘loves’ blogs leading to:

  • Better ranking
  • More exposure
  • More traffic
  • Social book marking made easy twitter, face book etc leading to:

  • more exposure
  • more traffic
  • Comments including the reader
  • leading to back links, more traffic
  • It costs as little $3.50 a month (Hosting and Domain Name)

Wordpress.org provides a platform with themes, widgets and plugins.

Wordpress also has a great support system if you need to find out how to do something.

Themes allow you to create the kind of Layout, set-up, appearance that you want.

There are lots of free ones to choose from.

This blog uses the Suffusion theme and there will be a tutorial on how to customise it to your liking.

Widgets are like boxes which can contain text, video, optin-forms and other application.

You can customize how many, which ones and were you want to use these.

Plug-ins are extras which help with running and optimising your blog.

Examples of the important ones are:

Akismet – Security and spam control

Help with Search engine optimisation :

All in one SEO

Dagon Design sitemap Generator

Google Xml sitemaps

RB Internal Links

Backup:

WP-DB manager

Social Bookmarking:

Face book share

Tweetmeme (retweets)

Onlywire (can share up to 40 sites with one click)

Sexy Bookmarks – gives people a choice which ones they want to use to share with.

Wordpress.org also gives the option of having

hidden and private and password protected pages

and if your blog is large enough to have a forum as part of the blog.

All of the Wordpress.org options I mentioned are free.

You can buy extra themes and plugins if you want.

So the only expense is the Hosting and Domain name.

You can get a Domain Name from Go Daddy and hosting from Hostagator.

Ipage provides a package deal of the Hosting for $3.50 a month, which includes your choice.

On the Lighter Side - Jokes

On the Lighter Side – Jokes

ShareTweetHere are some Jokes and funny things I got in my Emails
Idiosyncrasies of English
-A woman went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, “where’s the self- help section?” she said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
- What was the best thing before sliced bread?
Subject: Tech update
INSTALLING A HUSBAND
Dear Tech Support,
Last year I [...]

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Fun, Happiness and Success

Fun, Happiness and Success

ShareTweetHow do Fun and Happiness relate to Success?
How much

and Happiness are you having in your day and/or week?
Do you think that doing things that are fun contributes to Success?
According to  Colleen C. Barrett, President and Corporate Secretary of Southwest Airlines
“Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude.”
So, if we adjust our attitude [...]

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Active Listening

Active Listening

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Active Listening
Being Present
Understanding
One of the greatest Gifts we can give another person is really listening to them.

How often do you feel truly listened to?

Have you had someone who really listen to you and then you felt  heard and understood?
What was the difference, why did you feel heard and understood?

In the lifestyle [...]

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Vision Board

ShareTweetDream Board – Vision Boards  – Mind maps:
There are many ways to create your dreams/visions and ideas.
One of the things that can help is making a visual representation of you dreams, vision or goals.
When it is visual it activates another part of our brain and can get the creative juices flowing.
As we see our vision [...]

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Laughter Yoga

ShareTweetHow Laughter can benefit Your Health ?

Supplies  oxygen
Boosts the immune system
metabolism
releases endorphins (natural pain killer)
exercises face muscles – reduces wrinkles
Antidote to stress
a complete well being  gentle aerobic work out
helps expell residual air form the lungs
a general sense of overall well being

10 minutes of hearty laughter is equal to 30 minutes [...]

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Joy is the Goal

Joy is the Goal

ShareTweetIs your Goal Joy?
Do you have goals?
Yes, I am sure you do; well, seems that most people do.

Success seems to be a goal for most people.
Goals are essential when we want to be successful.
How would you feel if you reach your goal?
Proud, successful, happy – joyful?

So, is [...]

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Only Wire and SEO

Only Wire and SEO

ShareTweetHow to optimize SEO with Only Wire bookmarking
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the essentials,
when it comes to being known on the Internet, would you agree?
The spiders of Google, Yahoo, MSN are more likely to pick up
and then list a site if it appears more often on the Internet.
Bookmarking is one of the [...]

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Smile

Smile

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Have you noticed how people light up when they smile? Do you think that you light up like that when you smile. I am sure you do.
When you are out and about, have you ever noticed how many people smile?
How about when you walk around with a smile, do people respond by smiling back?
A smile [...]

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Energy and CoQ10

The Energy of the Cell, Heart and Body

Cells are what makes up every part of our bod including our heart.

The energy production of the Cell very much determines how much energy we have available throughout the day.

There a lot of components that contribute to the production of energy within

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