Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Youtube, Myspace… the list goes on for days. Some of you might be asking yourselves What on earth are these social networks and more importantly, why should I care? By the end of this article, you should have a good idea of exactly what these social networks are for and how they can benefit your business.

A Tip to Help You Understand It is more than likely you have heard the phrase “SEO” used before when talking about e-commerce. However if you were like me then it is also likely you had no idea what SEO was or what it meant. As time goes on SEO or Search Engine Optimization is [...]

Some of you may have noticed earlier this week that we had begun the very exciting process of implementing a new dashboard. The purpose of this upgrade was to increase the speed and functionality of StoreBlogs, also help us eliminate bugs and defects.

We Need to Sit Down and Have a Talk We really do not touch base on this enough around here in our Store Blogs community. But most likely the sole reason you read the Weekly Blog Tips is because you are curious and want to learn more about the blogosphere. I decided it made a [...]

A Tip of Optimism One thing you need to realize when starting a new blog is that it may take months before you get a handful of readers that aren’t your friends and family. Personally I do not think it is that big of a deal but I can imagine putting some of your precious [...]

There are millions of blogs out there and a good majority of those blogs are using the WordPress blogging platform. Chances are your blog’s topic is not new to the internet, so you have to think of a way you can make your blog stand out. The first thing to make changes to is your front page.

This week we are going to discuss social media, and how blogging fits in with social media. There are several different ways social media is created, blogging is just one of these ways. I think social media is rapidly changing as new technologies and ways to communicate with one another come out. We will start out by defining what social media is and how you currently use it and how you could be using it in the future.

A trackback allows you to inform a blogger you are referencing their blog in yours. Say you read something in a blog you really enjoyed and wanted to link to it in your blog, you can send a trackback which will inform the blogger that you have linked to their site in your blog, which hopefully will generate more traffic for them.

They serve a very similar purpose as tags, but tags are a little bit more specific than categories. Categories is a broader way to file away your posts, and make it easier for your readers to navigate through your blog’s universe. When a subscriber clicks a tag it should return only a handful of posts, but when they click a category it should return several posts. This week’s tip is to help guide you when picking out your categories.

The purpose of this week\’s blogging tip is hopefully to put that confusion to rest. This weekly advice will tackle the RSS process by first defining RSS and briefly explaining the way it works, hopefully clarifying for all of you blogaholics how to begin reading RSS feeds.