What’s it Take to Run a Successful Blog Giveaway?
Sometimes a giveaway is a great way to attract people to your brand. It brings on attention to your company while giving your product more recognition and increasing site traffic. It’s a great idea for bloggers but it takes some strategizing to make it a successful situation. You need to be aware of some rules and etiquette while strategizing to make this a successful marketing campaign. Running a blog giveaway is a great idea, so here is a look at how to do it in order to get what you need out of it and keep your followers happy. You …
Do you want to Share Private WordPress Posts with Groups?
Sometimes you want to share a post in WordPress with a group privately. Fortunately, WordPress has a way for you to create private posts and make them password protected as well. You’ll have to make a private post and have editor level permissions to see it which makes it a little tricky. How do you share a post that’s only meant for a specific group of people, like your team at work or just for your family members? Share posts with users groups in WordPress by installing and activing the right plugin. Here’s a look at what you need to …
Can you Keep WordPress from Forgetting You?
If you haven’t heard of the “Always Remember Me” feature on WordPress, you are probably getting a lot of headache every time you log in. No matter how many times you’ve hit that check box to “remember me,” it seems that you always have to login once again when you get to the WordPress home page. You exit the page and return later just to have to login again and tell it to “remember me” again. What you don’t know is that there is a way to get the box automatically checked to remember you through WordPress that will also …
Will Using the WP Smush Plugin Speed Up WordPress?
If you haven’t heard of the Smush Plugin in WordPress, this is a great tool for speeding up the site for you. It works as an image compression plugin and having the ability to compress images is a key component to making your site run faster. Obviously pages with many bulky, large images load slowly which is a huge problem for your bounce rate. Your search ranking is based on things like your site’s speed and mobile-friendliness so it’s of utter importance that you take every precaution to avoid errors like content that doesn’t load properly on phones or sites …
Which WordPress Code Editors are Best for Windows and Mac?
When you’re trying to decide the best code editor to use for modifying your WordPress files, people typically tend to use plain text editors like Notepad. There are better editors out there though with features like advanced finding and replacing, syntax highlighting, and even FTP integration. For Mac and Windows users, you need to know which code editors are going to be compatible and the best for you. Here is a look at the best ones to check out starting with the obvious Notepad all of the way to options you may not have realized like Sublime Text and BBEdit. …
Where can you Find Fresh Ideas for Your Blog Posts?
It’s time to work on that blog and you’re fresh out of ideas. Whether you haven’t updated in a few months or even a few years, you’ve probably already discussed all of your industry’s major talking points and everything your business has to offer. What more is there to say? If you haven’t covered frequently asked questions or repeated a topic all over again with a fresh set of eyes, it might be a great place to start. It can be difficult to maintain a blog because people start to run out of ideas and lose their creative abilities after …
Creative Ways to Monetize your WordPress Blog
Most people treat their blog as a source of income but it can be challenging to make money from blogs with so much competition to get noticed. Anyone with an internet connection can create a blog which makes it more challenging to beat others in search rankings and build your following. Earning a living online is challenging but it can be done. Sometimes you have to resort to multiple sources of income to make a living wage from your online businesses and now there are some creative ways to make your blog more profitable. It’s not enough to simply get …
A Quick Guide to Starting a Fashion Store with WordPress
Running a fashion store online is a great opportunity to sell great products and reach a huge customer base compared to running a brick and mortar location. You can start a fashion right on WordPress and join the multi-million industry of online fashion retailers. If you have a great idea for a fashion store and need to know the ins and outs of how to start one, you can do so easily through your very own WordPress site. Here is a look at how you should start one, what it should look like, and which plugins you’ll definitely want to …
Can you Boost Traffic and Ranking with Guest Posting?
If you’ve considered guest posting, you probably didn’t realize it’s a great secret tool for boosting traffic and rankings. Guest posting is a way for you to write content that will be featured on other peoples’ blogs and websites in the hopes of driving traffic to your site. While you may think that you are providing quality content for free and that it would be a waste of your resources, it’s actually an investment worth making. Guest posting introduces your work to an audience you may not have reached otherwise which will lead to an increase in your traffic and …
A Quick Guide to Running an Education Blog
Running an educational blog is a different ball game than running a regular blog. You may be thinking about starting one since supplementary education services making big money. The education industry is a huge money maker worth over $19 billion with up to 74 million students attending school up to 12th grade in the US. With education being a huge industry for the young and for working professionals, it seems like an obvious way to blog to a huge market. Plus, education is huge around the globe. You can create an education blog with the proper knowledge on what to …
