"Blog Development" Posts
Development techniques: blog platforms and technologies.
ContentRobot’s Power of Blogging Ebook is Here
ContentRobot is pleased to offer our first ebook, which is an excerpt of our collaboration on The Secret Power of Blogging.
You’ll see:
- Karen’s foreword of the book
- ContentRobot case studies featuring our clients (BazaarVoice, Beneath the Cover / Push the Key, Bite of the Best, GrokDotCom, New School Selling, Shop.org, and Team Timex)
- Outsourcing Versus In-House Blog Development (including design, technical, and marketing issues)
- Benefits of working with a blog development company
- Finding a reputable blogging vendor
We hope …
ContentRobot.com is on WordPress 2.5
PSST! Did you know that up until recently that ContentRobot’s company website had been running atop of *gasp* Drupal? Yes “the WordPress experts” finally converted to this superior platform when we launched our “naked theme” site last month.
While we were hoping to be farther along and show off parts of our new look, we decided to continue to work on the blog-powered website’s underpinnings first. So, we have bitten the bullet and upgraded our site to version 2.5 (and …
Client Site Hacks and Other Musings
Seth Godin wrote a post today about “managing urgencies.” In ContentRobot’s world, if a client site goes down, it’s our urgent responsibility to stop whatever we are doing to get their site fixed and back online.
Yesterday, a highly trafficked, highly customized blog-powered website, was hacked. We tracked it down to a malicious script that has been making its way across the Internet and exploiting holes in older WordPress installs.
This talented fellow has made a short career of being …
Build a Blog-Powered Website Now
Earlier this week, we met Newt Barrett of Succeeding Today, and publisher of Content Marketing Today to discuss the concept of blog-powered websites.
Newt is in the discipline of content marketing. He urges marketers to think like publishers by delivering essential, relevant, and timely information that makes customers smarter and wiser–and much more likely to become buyers. He realized that one of the best ways to do that is to encourage his clients to launch business blogs.
Affiliate Blogging
As some of you may already know, ContentRobot is heading to Las Vegas next in February to speak at Affiliate Summit.
Today we’d like to announce a month-long experiment: the development of our own affiliate-centric blog. But here’s the fun part, we’ll let you in on what we’ve learned along the way, including:
- our approach to creating an affiliate program on a blog that we will be developing
- who we think some of the better affiliate companies to work with
- affiliate success stories and models
- our technical challenges
- the fun during development
- and more …
