So you're using WordPress and you are getting a nice amount of traffic, say a few hundred visitors a day. Maybe you love running many of the great plugins that add extra functionality for your visitors. There's just one problem: your server is struggling with the load and your site isn't just slow, … [Read more...]
The best shared hosting for WordPress websites
If you are either just starting out as a blogger with a self-hosted WordPress blog or you are frustrated by your current host – here is a list of the best WordPress shared hosting companies as voted for by WordPress experts. Shared web hosting is a service where many websites reside on one web … [Read more...]
Essentials of great blog post design
Blogs are, in my opinion, the easiest and best way to get stuff on the web. With a blog you can publish constantly updated information about yourself, your company or your interests to the world. And what makes it even better is that this information is chronologically ordered and categorized for … [Read more...]
Create a photo gallery on your WordPress blog with NextGEN Gallery
I wanted to add a photo gallery to this website quickly the other day and to do this I used the NextGEN Gallery plugin. It seemed to be generally well-received by the WordPress community and I wasn't disappointed. I literally had my gallery up and running in five minutes! The plugin was created … [Read more...]
How to market yourself #8: How to offer RSS feed and email subscriptions
So you've got your self-hosted WordPress blog set up, optimized and have already published a few great posts and you want to offer an RSS feed and email subscription to your posts. What is RSS? RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication and is a format used to publish frequently updated content from … [Read more...]
How to market yourself #7: How to write and design a WordPress page or post
Constantly updated quality content is the mainstay of any website or blog. I have already described how to set up a WordPress.org blog and what to write about when you have one. Here,s the "how to" for those new-ish to WordPress... There are three things to remember when you are writing: Make … [Read more...]
How to market yourself #5: How to optimize your WordPress site for search engines
This is the fifth in the series where I explain how an individual or small or medium sized organization can get themselves noticed in the big bad world. Other installments explained how to set up a web site from scratch, how to install WordPress and what to write on your site. Before we … [Read more...]
How to market yourself #4: What to write in your blog or website
So you've got your WordPress blog set up and you are just starting to write – what you do? Words are, in my opinion, the most important thing on a website. This is because the search engine robots that crawl the web every day can pretty much "read" what you've written, but they can't look at your … [Read more...]
How to market yourself #3: How to install a WordPress blog on your site
In the previous post in my How to market yourself series, I described how to set up a website on a host's server. Here I will tell you how to set up a WordPress blog on that server. Read my introduction to this self-marketing series here. This article is about how to set up WordPress manually. If … [Read more...]
How to market yourself #2: How to set up a website
This is the second post in my How to market yourself series, a personal account of the best marketing techniques you can employ for yourself or your business. Read my introduction to this self-marketing series here. There are three things you need to do when setting up your website. Decide on … [Read more...]
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