OK, I know, I am a Wordpress Dork, but really, this thing just keeps getting better and better!
I must admit, when I heard about 2.8, I didn’t expect much. After all, Wordpress 2.7.1 did such a great job that I wasn’t missing much, other than the theme uploader. And, with Vladimir Prelovac’s Theme Test Drive plugin, I didn’t even miss that!
So what could Wordpress 2.8 have that I’d need? Well watch the video and you’ll see.

If you haven’t watched the video yet, and you are still reading …

One of my clients who does a lot with videos, Freddy at Atomic Tango, shared this info with me and I had to share it with all of you.
As you’ll see from the video below, Wordpress.com is getting into the video hosting business.  What does that mean?  Well, if it means what I believe it does, it means these things:

You can now host a video at Wordpress.com directly – you don’t have to host your own videos somewhere else and then embed them into your own site
As Freddy points …

When you hear the words “keyword” or “keyword phrases” do you know what they mean to you, your business and especially your clients?
So many times, when I begin to work with a client, the first thing they say, before they even have content for their home page, is “I just want to rank #1 on Google.” So, I naturally ask them which keyword or keyword phrase they plan to rank #1 for? And, that is when I often learn that they hadn’t thought much past the desire to …

OK, I am trying out a new tool – which is Free and available to anyone looking to do a slideshow.
Its from http://www.slideshare.net/ and you can create your own page there, just like I did. Then set up a powerpoint presentation. Mine is below, it is one I did a few months ago on Dhyan Atkinson’s Wed Afternoon Teleclass.
My presentation was called It’s A Blog, It’s A Website, It’s A Marketing Tool…It’s Wordpress. It talks about using Wordpress as both your blog and your complete website.
Its Wordpress Presentation

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Jill Whalen CEO and Founder of High Rankings wrote an interesting article about SEO Expectations in her newsletter, shortly after I posted my SEO post on this site.
It is a sharp read, about being realistic in your SEO campaign. It doesn’t sugarcoat anything, so if you are looking for someone who is going to tell you they can get you to #1 overnight, this is not the place. This is actually why I trust Jill – she doesn’t make false claims, she is realistic about what it takes …