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Where to host your WordPress site is an important decision because it significantly impacts your online success. To avoid dealing with the technical aspects, many site owners opt for the easiest way out. Unfortunately, that could cost them in the long run, including the loss of their site and domain, or the design that is attached to their branding. Here are some easy tips, in plain English, to help you choose the right host provider for you and your site.
Small business owners know that making it easy for customers to contact them leads to sales. So, many display their telephone number and email address in a prominent place on their site. Unless that email address is properly encoded, spammer bots can easily harvest it. Thankfully there are several tricks you can use to foil the spam bots and still make it easy for customers to contact you. Read on to discover the old tricks that no longer work and the new ones that do.
Every Wordpress blog produces RSS feeds. But, it’s better to deliver those feeds through Feedburner, which is owned by Google because it offers more features, like tracking analytics, more subscription options, and notifying Google that a new post has been made. Discover the plugins that properly redirect your site’s raw feeds to ensure that everyone who subscribes is counted and the content is optimized.
The Social Media Widget plugin makes it simple to display all of your social media and RSS feed icons in any widget-ready area of your site like the header or sidebar. Plus, it includes several sets of icons and animations to make it match your site and style. In this video I show you how to configure the widget and all of the settings you can customize. Watch the video now.
Work smarter not harder by leveraging the power of online/email alerts which will help you build relationships without creating an insane amount of new work.
[RSStextbig] Every WordPress blog produces an RSS feed that viewers can subscribe to. But, you can’t track analytics and it is not optimized to be read easily on different devices. Feedburner is the top RSS feed delivery service. It’s free and owned by Google, offers feed reader and email subscription options, tracks analytics, and optimizes the feed for the viewing device. Discover how easy it is to burn your feed with Feedburner and how you should link to it on your site.
Keyword stuffing and overuse of keywords are just two of the penalties in Google’s recent Penguin update. One of the ways to avoid that penalty is to vary the use of the keywords in anchor links that go to other places on your site, especially those that are your money words. Here are some tips on how to vary your anchor text, including a tactic that used to be taboo.
WP video tutorialThreaded comments are a great way to help your readers follow the discussion on your WordPress blog. In this super short video tutorial, you’ll see how easy it is to create threaded comments without a plugin by using a feature already built into WordPress.
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