The official Twitter plugin helps you to share your blog using twitter cards to make your links stand out from the card, gives you a follow button and the ability to customise your embedded tweets. Alongside all this, you get access to enhanced twitter analytics, so what are you waiting for? 3 steps to setting […]
Make sure Jetpack G+ publicize settings work for you.
Just a quick post covering the G+ sharing in Jetpack publicize settings, but it caught me out at the weekend, so I thought I’d share in case anyone else has done the same thing. When you set up Jetpack publicize you can connect a number of different networks, including Google+. I’d done this for my […]
How to choose a host for your shiny new wordpress website.
So, you’ve listened to the talks on self hosting your website, you’ve read around on the issues that using wordpress.com or blogger or other free systems might imply and you’ve decided to take the leap. You know you need a domain name, and a host. But what are those things, where do you get them, […]
Twitter cards for blogspot users
I’ve previously written on implementing twitter cards on wordpress and in a comment on that post was asked if it could be achieved for blogger. The answer is of course yes, and I found a number of articles claiming to achieve it, but none really seemed straightforward to me, so here’s my own recipe. (To […]
How to get a new twitter widget to fix that broken tweetstream.
Twitter API upgrade leads to broken twitter widgets At the end of last week, Twitter upgraded API from 1.0 to 1.1. (API is how external sites link to twitter’s code.) The result was that lots and lots of tweetstreams on blogs and sites around the internet broke. It’s likely that if you’re in that situation, […]
Twitter cards – what they are and how to integrate.
Twitter cards are the latest upgrade to twitter that allows you to add extra information to your tweet when sharing a link. They come in a number of different formats – the one that is most likely to be useful to a business or personal blog is the summary card, which adds a headline, excerpt […]
The absolute basics of SEO.
There’s an awful lot of nonsense spouted about search engine optimisation, as if it’s a difficult topic. It’s not. Here are the basics of SEO as I see them. Your mileage may vary. A post should be 300-500 words. Good content is written for people, but works for search engines too. A good post summarises […]