A Gift for Subscribers

As a subscriber to my site I want to give you a thank you gift before I post about it to everyone else. Back in March I opened up a facebook group called Blog Overhaul. For three weeks we went through eight assignments to improve our sites in the areas of navigation and search engine optimization. The members that implemented the steps accomplished their goals of updating their websites and making them more user friendly. I...

Blog And Website Shall Become One

A blog that is separate from a business site is like a long distance relationship. Everyone is frustrated. Joining the two can be a magical, beautiful thing. Even Hub Spot’s research shows that businesses that blog see an 88% increase in leads over those who don’t. If your ag business or organization has different URL’s for your site and blog, you should seriously consider putting them under one roof. Here...

5 Insanely Simple Backlink Locations

You’re crazy if you’re not using these backlinks. Search engines love seeing links to your site. The best links are from relevant and popular websites. But I have noticed that many farm bloggers and ag businesses are leaving back links on the table at very obvious places.  Every site owner should be grabbing this low hanging link fruit every chance they get. Simply because it’s easy and it counts....

WordPress.com or WordPress.org

What’s the difference? It’s a very common question. I was explaining the difference between wordpress.or and wordpress.com this week to my fifteen year old. And yesterday someone tweeted the link to Sarah Gooding’s article on wpmu.org with the Definitive Guide on WordPress.org vs WordPress.com. I posted a infographic earlier this week about discovering blog post ideas. Here is another infographic for good...

Stuck For Blog Post Ideas?

Need Some Inspiration? The blank screen with the blinking cursor can be intimidating at times. We need a little prodding to jumpstart a blog post.  This infographic can give you a bunch of directions to get started. All the suggestions listed might not apply to you but most of them can definitely trigger more ideas if you give it some thought. #6 and 7 can be very quick posts since they are about your opinion and would...

Write Down Your Farm Story

Will you let a single article sum up your farming heritage? Someone tweeted a link to this article saying how proud of her family she was. And the lady should be proud. The article talks about the closing of a dairy farm and interviews the brother and sister who grew up milking cows by hand. When I read it, I thought how sad if a single newspaper article were the only record of their family farm history. Yes, most families...