If you’re writing a blog then chances are you also want to attract people in to read it. Twitter can be an extremely effective (as well as free) tool to help you do this, whether you have your own account or not. Tweet Button You’ll see one of these at the bottom of all my posts and they come in different formats so you can pick which you think will fit best. Tweet Buttons are great because they’re not too intrusive and you don’t need to have your own account to display one. Once you’ve installed the plugin you don’t need to give it any more attention,...

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Once a WordPress site is handed over by a developer, many people will find that they are only ever going to use the CMS to make simple changes to the text and images on their pages and blog posts. A standard install allows you to do this from the back end administrative system, but using free plugins it becomes possible to edit some chunks of text in place whilst browsing through your site, so long as you’re logged in. I tested out a plugin called Front-end Editor: Advantages: If you spot a simple spelling error you can edit it there and then, without having to navigate away You can...

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With Google regularly updating search algorithms to ensure it’s delivering the most relvant and up to date content, it was only a matter of time before we started to notice the effects of social media, particularly Twitter, on our search results. Google have confirmed that they have not only added social and blog search channels, but that social media also has some effect on regular search results. Google will take into consideration if an article is retweeted or referenced much from Twitter and use this social signal when determining its search placement. As part of this it will take...

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