| Section |
Articles |
Description |
| Starting Out |
Edit a few Words on your Home Page
Publish Your First Blog Post
Add an Image
Add Users
Optimize for Search Engines
All About your Dashboard |
Introduction to updating your website. |
| Web Pages |
Editing and Creating Web Pages
Adding Documents and PDFs
YouTube Videos
Charts and Gadgets from Google Docs
Flash Presentations
Links to Other Websites
Visual Editor and HTML Editor
Managing, Organising and Editing Pages
Featured Articles
iPhone (Wordpress.tv)
Advanced: More Page Options
Why NOT to use MS Word to Prepare Content |
Update your web pages and blog posts using your dashboard and editor. |
| Blog Posts |
Managing, Organising and Editing Your Posts
What Should I Blog About?
Types of Blog Posts
Business Blogger’s Checklist
Titles and Permalinks
Categories and Tags
Choosing Post Categories
Organising Post Categories
Publish a Post In the Future
Post Excerpts
Comments
Comment Spam |
Tips specific for blog posts. |
| Social Media |
Twitter
Facebook
Delicious, StumbleUpon and Digg
Share This
|
Integrate your site with Social Media. |
| Analytics and Monitoring |
How to Use and Interpret Google Analytics |
Monitoring how your site is working. |
| HTML Tips |
Introduction to HTML (for Bloggers and others)
Using Copyright, Trademark and other Special Characters
Using shortcodes in OM4 websites |
Some more advanced tips so you can do more with your website. |
| Using Images |
Finding Images
Floating Images
Image Galleries
Image Rotators
Shutter Reloaded Effect
Clickable Images (Links)
Choosing Images |
Include images in your website. |
| Preparing Images |
Preparing Images: Checklist
|
Prepare images before uploading to your website. |
| Design |
Finding Fonts for your Web Graphics
Changing the Header Image of your OM4 Web Site
Advanced: Graphic Designers: Designing for an OM4 Website
Advanced: Using CSS to Tweak Your Site Design
Web Graphics Tools for Mac and Windows |
Change the way your website looks. |
| Sidebars |
What Is A Widget Video
Summary of Available Sidebar Widgets
Changing the Contents of Your Sidebar using Widgets
Changing the Layout and Appearance of Your Sidebar
Using Text Widgets to Place Text, Images, Forms and Links in Your Sidebar |
Feature content, offers, subscriptions and more. Sidebar widgets put your website to work. |
| eCommerce and Leads (enquiries, bookings, payments) |
Accepting Email Enquiries using a Contact Form
eCommerce: Shopping Carts and Payments
Offering Premium Member Subscriptions using the Own Page plugin |
Generate leads and accept bookings and payments. |
| Google Maps |
Adding A Google Map with Markers To Your Website
Creating a Custom Google Map For Your Website |
Integrate with Google Maps. |
| Site Search |
Setting Up and Monitoring Site Search |
Track what visitors are searching for on your site. |
| Testimonials, Quotes and Calendars |
Client Testimonials
Quotations
Event Calendars
Google Apps Calendars |
Collect and display testimonials and event information to visitors. |
| Domains |
Domains Names and Domain Registrars
After Your Domain is Mapped
Redirecting Your Old Pages to Your New Pages |
Learn how to identify good domain names, register them and use them to create websites. |
| Email |
Setting up and using a Google Apps account
Setting up Outlook and other mail readers to read mail from Google Apps
What is Google Apps
Handling Suspicious Emails
|
Get your business email working |
Keywords |
Keyword Research
Guide to Understanding and Using your Keyword Plan |
Understand keywords and put your knowledge to work. |
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) |
Introduction to Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization
On Page SEO – Optimising your Posts and Pages for Search Engines
Off Page SEO – Optimization with OM4 and Wordpress
What is Google Pagerank and How Do I Interpret It?
Technical SEO Features of an OM4 Website
Getting a Wordpress Website Included in Google News |
Help your site make it easy for search engines. |
| Search Engine Marketing (SEM) / Pay Per Click (PPC) |
Setting Up a Google AdWords (Pay Per Click) Campaign for your Website
How To Calculate Your Profit from Pay Per Click Advertising |
Run Pay Per Click ad campaigns. |
| Local Search |
Registering for Google Local Search
Improving Rankings for Google Local Search |
Register and rank for localised searches. |
| Introduction to Online Marketing |
The 5 New Tools of Online Marketing
Glossary of Online Marketing Terms
17 Web Tools Everyone Ought to Know About
Using DropBox to Share Folders over the Internet |
Get some background on how to market your business online |
| Email Marketing |
Introduction to Email Marketing
How to Start with Aweber and Setup your Email Newsletter
How to Publish Your Newsletter to your Website and Aweber |
Setup and run email marketing campaigns. |
| Affiliate Marketing |
Amazon Associate Links |
Use affiliate marketing to earn additional income. |
| Website Setup |
Setting up an OM4 Website
Configuring Menus
Changing Your Footer Text
Mapping Domains |
Use the powerful website setup features of the OM4 platform. |
| Business Coaching |
Business Coaching and the Business Growth System |
About the BGS business coaching programme. Recommended if you are starting an online business. |
| Hosting |
How OM4 Hosting Works
How Upgrades and Patches are applied |
How your OM4 website is hosted. |
| Related Articles |
Landing Pages (from CopyBlogger)
Link Building by Audette Media (found courtesy Aaron Wall)
RSS in Plain English (in 3.5 minutes), by Commoncraft |
Useful articles from the web |
