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Publishing Content Beyond Your Blog

Small Business Mavericks

Most online businesses publish content in two places – their website and their blog – it’s a standard online marketing strategy. You will often see references to publishing content in article directories, Facebook, HubSpot, Squidoo and perhaps even on other blogs as a guest author. You shouldn’t.

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What the heck are social media consultants and what do they do all day?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Consultants use content management systems (CMS) such as WordPress or Drupal to publish without web support. They can easily create and publish landing pages and blog posts. Social ads can be complicated so most consultants get industry certifications such as Facebook BluePrint or Twitter Flight School.

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Open Source Web Management and Design Tools

Idaconcpts

Drupal – PHP/SQL. eZ Publish – PHP/SQL. The Web itself is free and open, and there is no reason why publishing on the web needs to be closed and expensive. There are undoubtedly hundreds of free and open source content management systems. These are a few of the most popular. – Blogging Software. Tweet This!

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How Distributed Content Can Help Control Social Messaging

Waxing UnLyrical

Perhaps you’re familiar with the term “distributed content” ( content that is published to third-party platforms rather than to an owned website). While this may have been an unthinkable strategy for a small-to-medium-sized business a few months ago, Facebook and Apple recently opened their platforms to all publishers.

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Tech Tip: 3 Simple Things You Can Do To Improve The Backend Of Your Site

SocMed Sean

This sure opens up a lot of possibilities, from redirecting an old URL to a new address, to helping clean up the complex or nonsensical URL that is coming from an abysmal publishing system – providing you with a URL that is not only user-friendly but also search engine-friendly. By default, WordPress has a terrible URL structure.

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Why Livefyre Is The Best Blog Comment System Evah

Waxing UnLyrical

If you publish a blog, there are three things I want to tell you today. As you might know, I publish regularly in three places including WUL, and have back end access to one of the other blogs, which currently uses Disqus. I strongly suggest you check it out, particularly if you publish a WordPress blog. Short version.

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Use Forums to Boost Your Blog’s Value

ProBlogger

I’ll answer that question with another one: do you think of your blog as a publishing platform with occasional interaction, or a full-blown community? If you have a large content library powered by Drupal , you have options. Dooce’s Q&A section was built in Drupal. Tapping the hidden potential.

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