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Driving Traffic to Your Website

MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, RSS, blogs. etc., are forms of social media that can be employed to steer traffic to your website. Most of these can easily link to a website.

Blogging is one of the more effective social networking tools and Mercury supports two blogging solutions:

Quick Blogcast gives your customers two tools in one – a blogging tool and a podcasting tool. A blog, or “Web log,” is similar to an online journal, while a podcast is an audio or video recording broadcast over the Internet.

Businesses have adopted both blogs and podcasts as inexpensive ways to lure visitors back to their Web sites for regularly updated news, tips and advice. Quick Blogcast comes with over 60 customizable blog templates, a podcast recording tool with CD-quality recording and an On-Site Player that visitors can use to listen to podcasts right from the user’s Web site. Order Quick Blogcast


WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards and usability. WordPress has a templating system as well as themes that can be installed and switched between, resulting in a high degree of customization. It also has a rich plugin architecture which allows users and developers to extend its functionality beyond the features that come as part of the base install.

Native applications exist for Android, iPhone/iPod Touch, and BlackBerry which provide access to some of the features in the WordPress Admin panel and work with WordPress.com and many WordPress.org blogs.

  

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