WordPress is one of the best ways to edit and maintain a blog. It allows users to easily customize and manage their blog. Beginner and advanced bloggers alike love WordPress, making it perhaps the most popular blogging software. Best of all – it’s free. There are also thousands of different widgets you can add to [...]
We’d all like to have a high-traffic, widely-recognised blog that has legions of fans and showcases our creative sides. Anyone can use SEO to go after specific niches, but it takes a while for all those niche readers to add up to serious traffic. Attracting a more mainstream audience is hard work that requires a [...]
Below is selected text from the infographic: WordPress is open source content management software that is free to download from WordPress.org 10,935 Available Plugins DOWNLOADS The Akismet Spam service and plugin by Automattic has caught a total of 17,744,612,938 spam comments and averages —18,000,000/mo There are 1,217 Free themes in the WordPress theme directory with [...]
Sometimes ideas for your blog will just hit you and you will want to talk about it right away. If you wait until you get home then not only will the idea be gone, but so will the mental rush that made you want to write the post in the first place. And whether it’s [...]
Maintaining a blog is about much more than simply presenting the latest news in the life of a person or a brand. A good blog is about conveying the writer’s personality and interests to his audience. To that end, the comments section should be one of the liveliest parts of a blog. In addition, there [...]
You are sitting at your computer staring at the screen, your head blank and your eyes slowly closing; sleep is threatening to give way. You’ve always had a variety of topics to cover and write about on your steady growing blog, but lately you admit to have fallen into the dreaded bloggers slump. You’re not [...]
Being a subset of journalism, it is no surprise that blogging shares many traits with its parent. In particular, blogging strongly resembles the feature or editorials pages of many newspapers. Not beholden to quite the same rules of timeliness or AP style guidelines as the news sections, these sections focus on matters of personal interest [...]
There are numerous ways to get a blog noticed and mentioned online. Some are good and others are atrocious. We’re all aware of “that guy” who simply joins conversations online and says, “Wow, that’s interesting. Hey, have you read my blog about…” Sometimes the blog covers the topic being discussed – but usually it doesn’t. [...]
Whatever you think about social media, it now has a huge effect on SEO and internet visibility. Twitter is shaking the world of media and communications to the core. Facebook has recently overtaken Google as the most-visited domain on the Internet, and Google is scrabbling for a foothold in social with their new +1 button. [...]
When WordPress was first developed by Matt Mullenweg in 2003 is was just a simple blogging tool. The WordPress CMS was designed to provide people to run a “blog” on their website. People used to install WordPress as a sub-directory on their site, usually simply called ‘blog’. However, today all that has changed. WordPress is [...]
