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Pingdom: WordPress Dominates Top Blogs

ContentRobot — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:31:59 +0000

Yesterday, Pingdom reported that 48% of the top blogs in the world use WordPress, which comes as no surprise to ContentRobot.

The five fantastic findings that we liked were:

That was a increase from the 32% that WordPress recorded three years ago
Their findings compared to Technorat’s State of the Blogosphere 2011 report, which stated that 51% of blogs in the world use WordPress
Some companies are still choosing to build their own custom CMS (content management system)
TypePad & Movable

They Always Come Back to WordPress

ContentRobot — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:39:42 +0000

We just celebrated our sixth birthday last week and we were reminiscing about the evolution of ContentRobot and blogging throughout the years.

Old-time readers may recall that we dabbled in Drupal and other blogging platforms before deciding to focus our expertise on WordPress. Also during that time we’ve seen clients who’ve had sites and blogs done in Flash, PHP, ASP, HTML, Blogger, Movable Type, and more.

For several years, we have been recommending that clients launch blog-powered websites with WordPress. …

Posterous Bloggers Flock to WordPress

ContentRobot — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:41:25 +0000

The Next Web reported on Monday that Posterous has been sold to Twitter and as expected, bloggers started to look for another alternative platform. Yesterday, WordPress.com posted that they had seen a 250% increase of imports from Posterous blogs. If you are looking to join the ranks of hosted WordPress blogs and want to bring your Posterous content with you, it's quite easy: ...

ContentRobot Contributes Consultant Time for Jane’s Jitterbug Bakery Project

ContentRobot — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:30:52 +0000

Jane Wells, the UX and community lead for WordPress, wants to combine her love for baking and blogging into a cool Tybee Island, Georgia cafe called Jitterbug Bakery. She put up a great Kickstarter page that described her vision for the project and a cool blog that documents the process.

She is looking to raise $15,000 by March 15th. Starting with a tweet by Pete Mall last month, several WordPress consultants and Core Contributors – including ContentRobot – have stepped …

Become a ContentRobot Affiliate!

ContentRobot — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:37:41 +0000

Did you know that we have an affiliate program? We do!

Help to promote ContentRobot, WeFixWP, & BlogOnCloud9 services, and you can earn a little extra cash. Our affiliate program is in its beginning stages, so we invite you to come aboard and help it grow (and you’ll reap even more benefits in the future).

The Details

You place an affiliate banner or link on your website, blog, or even in an email.
When visitors click on your banner or

Internet Marketing with WordPress: A ContentRobot Review

ContentRobot — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:42:44 +0000

Packt Publishing was kind enough to send us another blogging book for review. This time we got an opportunity to check out Internet Marketing with WordPress by David Mercer.

Our first impression was: Wow, this book is short.

Luckily, we believe that “good things come in small packages.” We were not at all disappointed – this tiny tome, packs a powerful punch.

Mercer starts it off by presenting a diagram that showed exactly where blogs and websites fall within the entire …

Hey, Hey it’s a Newsletter

ContentRobot — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:41:25 +0000

For years now, ContentRobot has been flirting with the idea that we should be producing a regular newsletter. Why not offer another way for our readers to get some blogging news, ideas, and inspiration in their inboxes?

We are proud to say that we are putting the final touches on our very first issue and we are very excited that it will be released into the wild shortly.

What’s in it for WordPress bloggers?

A unique perspective on WordPress and

New Year, New Design, and New Outlook for ContentRobot

ContentRobot — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:32:53 +0000

Wow! ContentRobot will be celebrating our 6-year anniversary this March, so it’s time for a redesign! Here are the top 6 reasons why we are unveiling a new (out)look.

1. Rebooting the Business

It’s a bit painful to admit, but ContentRobot sorta fell into a rut over the past several months. While we launched some good client work, we were somewhat muddled in what we wanted to accomplish as a company.

We are now focusing on the following goals:

Promoting

ContentRobot Year in Review: Helping Clients

ContentRobot — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:05:41 +0000

ContentRobot has been in business for almost five years thanks to our awesome clients. We’ve had the pleasure of helping them to meet their website and blogging goals with a variety of interesting projects. Read a sampling of some of our favorite work we did in 2011.

New Launches

ContentRobot provided soup-to-nuts services for these new websites:…

Revenews.org Blog This site is designed to provide its readers with best practices, current industry trends, innovative new methods, and featured interviews from

Best Books for Giving or Receiving for the 2011 Holidays

ContentRobot — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:50:08 +0000

It’s no secret that the ContentRobot team loves to read. Each year, we offer our most recommended and favorite books from this year.

Our 2011 list is presented alphabetically by author and includes a variety business, blogging (of course!), and inspirational selections.

We are also pleased to note that some books were, in fact, written by several ContentRobot clients, colleagues, friends, and those we’ve been happy to meet along the way.…

Perspectives on Social Media Marketing [Paperback]by Stephanie Agresta, B.