The overwhelming world of WordPress...
I'm no designer, and I will readily admit that my part in creating the Netvantage website was minimal at most. However, I've taken a much more active role in developing and maintaining this blog as well as Joe Ford's. Our own site was handed off to a developer who did some heavy modding so we could customize and control a lot of things that WordPress doesn't easily support. I'm thankful for a lot of flexibility, particularly from an SEO standpoint, that those mods provide.
But I have to say, launching these blogs has given me the opportunity to dive headlong into WordPress, and all I can say is "WOW." What great fun to be had with the neverending supply of plugins and themes. I even downloaded an Adsense plugin that literally made me laugh the other day with some of the publisher's information. For me, this was an opportunity to experiment with a lot of different plugins (including some cool Adsense ones, which I may revert to again in the future...just not right now) and particularly on the SEO side of things. Foremost among those was All-in-one-SEO. Just a great, easy to use plugin that I would recommend to someone who wants a quick, no non-sense way to do some nuts and bolts SEO work for their blog. While our blogs have been up for a short time, I found it quite surprising that within a few weeks, Joe's blog actually outranked our own site for the term "Netvantage Lansing". Admittedly, this isn't a term we necessarily optimized for, but one I would expect that we would own. Now, it's Joe's. Hopefully he uses his power wisely...
More importantly, I suppose is the point that there are some fabulous plugins available for WordPress, and since this blog is my own personal playground, I will continue to give updates on how these "toys" are working out.
About Joe Ford
Joe Ford is a Managing Partner at Netvantage Marketing. In addition to overseeing day to day business operations of Netvantage, he directs paid search strategy for over 14 paid search clients. Ford is on the Lansing Chamber Board of Directors, and the Executive Board of the Capital Area IT Council.
Tags: All In One SEO, Joe Ford's Blog, Lansing, netvantage, Wordpress
Even more humorous, I have now taken over the term “Netvantage Lansing” with this blog. Sorry Joe.