WordPress for Small Business

I publish new articles each week on using WordPress to manage your small business website.

Check back to this page often to read the latest and greatest developments on WordPress powered websites and WordPress search engine optimization (SEO)!

Creating and Using WordPress Gravatars

November 20, 2010
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When you’re visiting other blogs and you scan down to read the comments, do you notice how each of the comments has a photo associated with it? It might be someone’s smiling face, a business logo, or the anonymous “mystery man” figure. Those are called gravatars, aka Globally Recognized Avatars. Gravatars are an easy way [...]

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Moving Your Content from WordPress.com to WordPress.org

November 5, 2010

When you first start blogging you might hesitate to spend money on a self-hosted blog and opt to start your blog on a freebie site, such as WordPress.com. Using the free version of WordPress will allow you to perfect your writing style and also get you into the habit of blogging on a regular basis. [...]

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Think About Your Business Image Before Using WordPress.com

November 3, 2010
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You’ve heard us rave about WordPress before in this series, along with the benefits of using WordPress for your business website or blog. But some people aren’t sure whether they should pay for their own hosting to use WordPress.org or use the completely free version at WordPress.com. New business startup expenses can surely tax your [...]

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Online WordPress Training – How To Create WordPress Websites

October 8, 2010
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I‘m excited to announce our second Creating and Customizing Your WordPress Website online training course, starting Thursday October 28. The first one was held in May of this year, and was a huge success. Here are just a few quotes from our students: “Don and the Expand2Web team are, in my opinion, the most credible [...]

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WordPress Plugin to Show Your Online Reviews

July 21, 2010
Online Reviews Wordpress Plugin

Have you ever wanted to show off your online reviews on your website? If you are a small business, it’s a best practice for a few reasons: It makes it easy for your customers to leave you an online review It shows potential customers that you are transparent about your reviews and what your customers [...]

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WordPress 3.0 is out and SmallBiz is Ready!

June 17, 2010
WordPress 3.0 is out!

Well it’s out. WordPress 3.0 is here and packed with a ton of exciting new features. And I’m happy to say that our SmallBiz WordPress Theme works perfectly on it. We’ve been testing all through the betas and the release candidates. We were even at WordCamp last month in San Francisco planning out which of [...]

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WordPress Running on Microsoft?

April 30, 2010
WordPress on Microsoft Windows Server

I‘ve been telling my blog readers that they shouldn’t try to run WordPress on a Microsoft Windows Server hosting account. Why? Because WordPress is based on a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and many of my clients who have tried to run WordPress on Windows Server based hosting accounts have had tons of problems [...]

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See You at WordCamp San Francisco

April 30, 2010
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Expand2Web is going to be at WordCamp SF (#wcsf) this weekend en-force. (Yeah, that’s right, all THREE of us ) We’d love to meet up with you, so if you’re going to be there ping me on Twitter at @doncampbell and we’ll grab a coffee and geek out over WP themes and plugins. Thomas, Randy [...]

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Verify Your WordPress Website in Google Webmaster Tools

February 3, 2010
Google Webmaster Tools = Swiss Army Knife for your WordPress Website!

Google Webmaster Tools is one of the most powerful free toolkits at your disposal for making sure Google can crawl your website properly. In order to use Google Webmaster tools for your website, you need to verify it with Google to prove that you own the website. There are two ways to do this: Uploading [...]

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Local Search Marketing Guides

January 2, 2010
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Recently I met Jeff Howard from Catch Search Marketing, a local search marketing agency based in Bethesda, MD. Jeff is a super nice and very talented guy who has created a lot of valuable content for small business owners. At his website he’s got a series of Local Business Guides that are packed full of [...]

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