Wendy Y Bailey of DIY Tech Talk is a colleague and social media buddy on Twitter. She interviewed me about the use of WordPress for business, and expanded on topics ranging from purpose of a blog for business use, plugins – along with my favorite plugins, themes – along with which 3 I recommend, integration with social media, and how to rank well and be visible on Google with blogs.

In this conversation, I shared edu-taining strategies using video to be visible, outrank your competition, and build your brand and expertise – tune in to this part of the conversation! 

As always, I appreciate your feedback and comments on your takeaways, and your thoughts on this video’s content. Cheers!

Show Notes

 01:22 AngelaBaden : Great, great show!

 01:22 shermanlive-1 : Thanks peeps!

 01:22 shermanlive-1 : thanks Angela!

 01:24 AngelaBaden : That really helped, I was feeling rather stymied by what wasn’t going on

 01:24 shermanlive : good! rock and roll now!

 01:26 AngelaBaden : Will do! Will tweet you and andy

 01:55 shermanlive : let me un-password my show peeps – sorry

 01:56 shermanlive : ok, go ahead and refresh the page – there shouldn’t be a password requirement now

 01:56 shermanlive : !moderateon

 01:56 shermanlive : !topic DIY Tech Talk: WordPress with Sherman Hu – Interview Host: Wendy Y Bailey

 03:00 lisamariemary : Hi Sherman!

 03:02 shermanlive : HEY HEY LISA MARIE!!!

 03:02 shermanlive : let your peeps know we’re gonna party about … now

 03:03 lisamariemary : Will do!

 03:03 lisamariemary : Yes

 03:03 DaveMarshall : good here

 03:03 lisamariemary : Volume just right to me

 03:09 shermanlive : wazzup peeps!

 03:10 lisamariemary : Hey Tony! Man, I need to visit your forum!

 03:11 WendyYBailey : http://snipurl.com/diy-wp-wendyy

 03:11 WendyYBailey : that’s to join the webinar!!

 03:12 TonyBlake : Yes you do Lisa… LOL!

 03:13 TonyBlake : SHOUT!

 03:14 lisamariemary : Eeks – I know, I’ve neglected you

 03:15 lisamariemary : eeks, sound gone

 03:15 lisamariemary : what happened to the audio? is it just me?

 03:16 LifeCoachMary : I love the pictures of food!! Yummo.

 03:16 shermanlive : do u hear us now?

 03:16 AndreaC : I hear fine

 03:16 shermanlive : HEY LIFECOACHMARY!!!

 03:16 lisamariemary : No, maybe I need to log in and out…hmm…

 03:16 LifeCoachMary : sound isn’t synced to the phone…

 03:16 shermanlive : refresh?

 03:17 lisamariemary : All better! Ahh!

 03:17 LifeCoachMary : do you know what the link is for Wendyy’s snip.url?

 03:17 shermanlive : yes there’s a delay

 03:17 shermanlive : http://snipurl.com/diy-wp-wendyy

 03:17 AndreaC : No better to make a choice with the audio, either or

 03:18 lisamariemary : Audio’s all fixed for me

 03:18 AndreaC : lol

 03:18 AndreaC : whats “for” dinner?

 03:21 LifeCoachMary : Thanks…all this technology is very cool.

 03:22 WendyYBailey : I love SEO, especially the All In One SEO Plugin for WordPress!

 03:23 WendyYBailey : What questions do you have about SEO and WordPress?

 03:24 AndreaC : Besides using the SEO plugin what else do you recommend doing?

 03:26 WendyYBailey : What’s a trackback?

 03:26 LisaVanAllen : Thanks for asking that WendyY

 03:27 lisamariemary : LOL!!!

 03:27 LisaVanAllen : I was getting scared

 03:27 WendyYBailey : LOL

 03:29 AndreaC : would you only do one or the other – comment or trackback?

 03:34 LisaVanAllen : When my prospects google “LisaVanAllen” these days, they find pg 1 filled with info on a woman involved in a notorious lawsuit (NOT ME). Any way to knock her off and regain page 1??

 03:36 LisaVanAllen : Is that QAlias?

 03:36 shermanlive : http://www.qalias.com/

 03:37 WendyYBailey : http://qalias.com/af/wb01

 03:37 LisaVanAllen : Got any contacts for me??

 03:37 shermanlive : i’ll send U “TONY”

 03:37 lisamariemary : LOL!

 03:37 LisaVanAllen : heehee

 03:38 lisamariemary : lol

 03:38 LisaVanAllen : It was NASTY!

 03:38 lisamariemary : Squidoo!

 03:39 LisaVanAllen : Not yet… will now!!

 03:39 LisaVanAllen : Just getting started with video

 03:39 lisamariemary : And use blogspot and youtube, too – they seem to get in the SERPS fairly quickly

 03:39 LisaVanAllen : How FUN!!!!

 03:39 AndreaC : brilliant!!

 03:40 lisamariemary : Oooh, yeah!!! That’d be cool!

 03:40 WendyYBailey : You got the right one, baby!!

 03:40 lisamariemary : Awesome!

 03:40 shermanlive : TubeMogul.com

 03:40 LisaVanAllen : That is a fabulous idea!!

 03:40 lisamariemary : I love it! And it’d make a cute Squidoo lens!

 03:41 LisaVanAllen : THANK YOU!!!

 03:41 LisaVanAllen : Yup with R Kelly

 03:41 LisaVanAllen : NOT ME!

 03:41 LisaVanAllen : Yes… very white!

 03:41 lisamariemary : lol

 03:41 lisamariemary : lmao!!!

 03:42 AndreaC : So when I search Lisa Van Allen next month, hope to see this video

 03:42 lisamariemary : No problems with new version? I’m scared to upgrade

 03:43 TonyBlake : No probs so far Lisa… upgrade was easy and no probs

 03:44 lisamariemary : Groovy!

 03:44 TonyBlake : I’ve upgraded all my blogs to 2.7 and have yet to have a prob — and I have like 35 blogs

 03:44 lisamariemary : OMG, Tony – wow!

 03:44 LisaVanAllen : 35?!?!?!? Where do you find the time?

 03:44 WendyYBailey : WOOHOO!

 03:45 lisamariemary : Tony is super groovy!

 03:45 LisaVanAllen : Tony – can we be friends?

 03:45 AndreaC : http://www.ablakeforum.com

 03:45 TonyBlake :

 03:45 TonyBlake : @tonyblakelive

 03:46 WendyYBailey : What plug-ins do you suggest?

 03:47 TonyBlake : I love sharethis… makes life so easy

 03:47 WendyYBailey : plug-ins: sharethis

 03:47 WendyYBailey : plug-ins: twittertools

 03:49 WendyYBailey : post a digest of your tweets on your blog

 03:49 WendyYBailey : kewlio!

 03:49 LisaVanAllen : Loving this!

 03:49 WendyYBailey : Me too, Lisa!

 03:49 SelfMadeCelo : Another great plugin is “Lifestream” reads RSS feeds from a ton of different social sites (Digg, FaceBook, Twitter, Flickr, etc) and posts it on one page

 03:49 LifeCoachMary : Where do we find that twitter to blog tool? Very cool!

 03:49 shermanlive : “Share This”

 03:49 WendyYBailey : plug-ins:  podpress

 03:50 shermanlive : “Twitter Tools

 03:50 TonyBlake : lifestream is another cool plugin — it posts your twitter or a twitter digest directly to your blog as a post

 03:50 shermanlive : “Podpress” http://MightySeek.com

 03:50 SelfMadeCelo : @Tony, great minds think alike eh? lol

 03:51 TonyBlake : LOL!… didn’t see your comment

 03:51 shermanlive : http://WishlistPlugin.com

 03:51 SelfMadeCelo : I’m actually setting up Lifestream right now =)

 03:55 WendyYBailey : http://snipurl.com/diy-wp-wendyy

 03:55 LifeCoachMary : Are plugins easy to install, or is it best to delegate to VA?

 03:56 LisaVanAllen : Give me a call Wendy!

 03:57 LisaVanAllen : Answer Mary’s question about whether we should hire a VA for our plugins??

 03:57 WendyYBailey : Plug-ins are easy but do delegate to a VA so you can focus on doing what you truly love — coaching!

 03:58 LifeCoachMary : Thank you!! Now I know how my peeps feel not understanding all this language. Thanks for doing this!

 03:58 WendyYBailey : You’re quite welcome!

 04:02 WendyYBailey : http://tutorialu.com

 04:03 WendyYBailey : http://wordpresstutorials.com

 04:03 WendyYBailey : http://diytechtalk.com  

 04:03 WendyYBailey : GENIUS!!

 04:04 WendyYBailey : You might also have a web dev/project manager to handle that stuff too.

 04:04 LifeCoachMary : You make it sound not so scary…but I’ll probably still delegate.

 04:05 shermanlive : lol – good for you!

 04:05 LifeCoachMary : If we’re a newbie with plugins, what’s the one or two we should add first?

 04:05 WendyYBailey : http://elance.com

 04:05 shermanlive : odesk.com

 04:05 WendyYBailey : http://guru.com

 04:05 WendyYBailey : http://odefk.com

 04:05 WendyYBailey : lol  http://odesk.com

 04:06 WendyYBailey : Do you know joselin mane?

 04:06 LisaVanAllen : Joselin Mane is awesome!

 04:06 LisaVanAllen : So, so helpful!

 04:07 WendyYBailey : http://groupcoachingmastery.com is a Semiologic pro/WP blog.

 04:09 WendyYBailey : That’s way kewl!