How a Free Report Generates Income
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Easily Create Custom Menus in WordPress
In this video you’ll learn how to create a custom navigation menu for your site. And, the special tricks you’ll need to know when you use static pages for your Home and blog pages so that you won’t see two links for Home.
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Optimize Your WordPress Backup Intervals
As a site owner, one of the best ways to protect your investment is to install a good backup solution that is automated and allows you to set the interval. It’s important to match the frequency of the backups to how often you make changes to your site. But, you also have to consider how much space those backups take because you don’t want to overpay for storage. Here are a few tips to help you optimize your backup settings.
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BlogAid Podcast Online Promotion with Carolyn Howard Johnson
I’m delighted to have one of my favorite guests back on the podcast, Carolyn Howard-Johnson and we chat more in-depth about her latest book, The Frugal Book Promoter: How to get nearly free publicity on your own or by partnering with your publisher.
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A Better WordPress Text Editor – Video Overview
In my opinion, the default text editor has long been the bane of WordPress. It was finally reworked in version 3.3, but not nearly enough. In this video you’ll see my favorite rich text editor plugin called TinyMCE Advanced. You’ll see how to install and configure it, plus some of the options it offers that will make your posts candy for both readers and search engines.
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Keep Your Database Clean and Backups Small with Two WordPress Plugins
All of the data in a WordPress site is stored in a database. A cluttered database can cost you SEO ranking and viewership by causing your site to load too slowly. Plus, all that useless information can cost you in backup storage fees by making your site files too big. Fortunately, there are two fantastic little WordPress plugins that you can use to cut the clutter in your database and keep it clean.
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Cheap and Easy Isn’t Either with Website Ownership
You can have a website in a day without knowing anything. That statement makes me want to laugh, then cry, then throw things. I know how silly it is. I know how sad it is that so many new site owners are easily lured by those who prey on the cheap-and-easy mentality. And, I know how much more it’s going to cost those site owners to improve their situation. Let me show you how to avoid getting ripped off in the first place as a new site owner.
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What the Halt of SOPA and PIPA Means to Me and You
The fact that I can publish this blog post is a testament to the power of the Internet as an agent of change that should not be censored, but monitored responsibly. Internet users and industry leaders helped put the brakes on two bills that were scheduled for vote on January 24, 2012 to allow everyone time to actually read what’s in those bills and take a better course of action. As a small business owner, blogger, composer, and producer of digital media that is disturbed on the Internet, the ideas behind SOPA and PIPA and their implementation are radically important to me. And they should be to you too, even if you’re just a surfer and have never published anything on the web. Read on to find out why.