WordPress and Twitter

Setting up a Wordpress blog is easy. Setting up a Wordpress blog EFFECTIVELY isn’t so simple.

What theme do you chose, do you have adverts on the site, which adverts should you include and a question that is getting asked more and more is which plugins should you use?

All these questions and more are important. The theme you chose will give visitors their first impression of your blog. Does the theme fit your blogs subject, is it easy to navigate and even does the colour combination make the posts easy to read?  There are plenty of free themes out there but you may need to edit them slightly to fit your blog. Do you have the technical know-how to do this?  If not, you may want to hire someone to do it for you.

There are also a huge number of plugins available and its easy to go mad and install every plugin you think may add something to your site. When I set up a new blog, I only add plugins that will benefit my site. A while ago, I started using a free plugin which helped my sites considerably. It helped with a lot of SEO settings that have DEFINITELY INCREASED TRAFFIC. Now, a new version of this plugin has been release and you can download it free of charge

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I learned most of what I know about Wordpress blogs from these guys and this new Version 2.0 of their free plugin is a lot more powerful. Just download it, set it up by following the easy step-by-step instructions and away you go….

Don’t under-estimate the value of SEO, you can have the best blog in the world but without traffic, no-one will ever know about it.

MIMBO is a clean, customizable magazine-style theme for WordPress. It’s also a simple framework which can be modified with child themes, discussed in the documentation.

Read more about the latest features.

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Features:

• Tested on Latest Wordpress version
• 3 columns
• Widget ready
• Fixed Width
• Cross browser compatible with IE, FF, Opera, Flock & Safari

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Ok, first an apology as I haven’t been posting my #followfriday recommendations every week. To make up for it, I’ve got some really good ones for you this week:

@XH558 (http://www.twitter.com/xh558)
I’ll admit this looks a strange ID but it is the registration of the only remaining airworthy Avro Vulcan. The Vulcan was originally introduced into the Royal Air Force fleet in the 1950s as part of the British Cold War arsenal and if you have ever seen it fly, it is an awesome sight. A Vulcan famously bombed Port Stanley during the 1982 Falklands War (read the book “Vulcan 607″ – its incredible) and was taken out of service shortly after. XH558 was sold to a private company and after much hard work and fund raising, it has taken to the skies again. Follow @XH558 for news and updates to see when it takes to the skies. They also have a website – http://www.vulcantothesky.org/

@ShellyKramer (http://www.twitter.com/ShellyKramer)
Very active on Twitter with great conversation and some excellent links to sites offering good advice about business online. WARNING: Don’t go near Shelly if you are a spammer, she doesn’t take prisoners !!!

@SomakHolidays (http://www.twitter.com/SomakHolidays)
A UK holiday company who really understand social media. Will happily chat with you plus some good travel info too.