Tips for Bloggers

Blogging = marketing tool… communicating great ideas, concepts, benefits, etc… if you’ve done research, you’re delivering exactly the information your audience needs/wants to read… but another layer of reaching your audience… If you are planing to upgrade your business marketing strategy you can think in find the way to win some new Instagram subscribers.

Ever been to a website and get lost in a sea of text?
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The “Read More” tag

The WordPress blog page typically shows your most recent 5 or 10 blog posts. This page displays each post in its entirety, which:

  • makes your blog page seem too long
  • may not look too good to have so much text in one page
  • makes it difficult for your readers to browse through your recent posts

Here, we will show you how to use the “Read More” tag to display the first few sentences of each post, followed by a “Read More” link pointing to the page that contains the entire post.

It’s actually really simple and you can do it right from your WordPress post editor. Here are the steps:

  1. Click “Add New” under “Posts”
  2. Enter your post title and write your content
  3. Place the mouse/cursor wherever you want to truncate your content
  4. Click the “Read More” button (shown in image below)
  5. (or if you like shortcuts, click Alt+Shift+T)
  6. Publish or Update your post
  7. That’s it!

Here is a screen shot of the WordPress post editor to show you what the “read more” buttons look like boxed in orange in both Visual and in html modes:

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Questions? Please let me know

Setting Up Facebook Usernames

Although this functionality has been available for quite some time, many still do not take advantage of it.

Setting up usernames for your personal or business Facebook pages is a very simple process. It is also very convenient; if you want to direct someone to your Facebook business page, for example, the URL would be as simple as facebook.com/Connexins (instead of the long and convoluted default URL).

Although you can set up the username for your personal profile any time, Facebook pages (for a business or an organization) need at least 25 people to “Like” the page first before you’re able to set up a username for that page.

Login to Facebook, and visit http://facebook.com/username. Follow the instructions to set up the username for all your Facebook pages. Please note that usernames are final, i.e. once set up you cannot change them!

Tip for using an online email contact form

Using an online contact form (for example, see this contact form) is a convenient way for your website visitors to send you a message.

Unfortunately, however, like almost everything else, spammers have figured out ways to abuse it. There are many ways to significantly reduce spam from contact forms. The most common way is to use “captcha”.

A “captcha” requires a site visitor to enter a sequence of letters and numbers or solve a simple math problem that he/she sees on the screen before the email contact form is submitted. This ensures that the message is written by a person and not generated by a computer.

Despite best anti-spam efforts, however, spammers spend their time to generate creative methods to get around anti-spam tools.

In addition to using using “captcha” I have added another method to protect my primary email address from getting spam from an online contact form. Here is what I have been doing:

  1. Create a random email address, such as “online-contact-form-001 @ my domain . com”
  2. Set up and associate this “random” email address with the online contact form.
  3. Forward messages from this random email address to my primary email address (usually done through an email service provider or your web hosting control panel).
  4. If I start to notice spam due to my online contact form, the fix is simple, I just repeat steps 1-3 with a new “random” email address.

So far, this has helped me keep spam from online contact forms out of my primary email address.

Welcome to the Connexins Blog

Hello there and welcome to our brand new design for the Connexins Web Development website (view the old website).

One of the additions to the new website is this brand new blog!

In this blog, we will regularly post information, articles, and tips to help you enhance your website, increase your website reach, and help you to accomplish your objectives from your website.

Thank you for visiting our blog today, and please stay tuned for some great information coming soon.