Experts in online marketing consulting emphasize a primary goal: getting your site indexed and ranked with the search engines. Not long ago, they would have said a blog might help you do that. They likely wouldn’t have recommended that a blog serve as your main site. Thanks to advances in content management software, however, that’s [...]
Backing up a WordPress blog is not something many of us think of because it is stored on your web server and you expect that server to be secure, reliable and error free. Unfortunately, things can go wrong at your host and you may find your blog gone one day due to database failures or [...]
Website101 was built with hand-coded flat html and ran that way for 10 years until it grew to over 800 pages and I realized I needed a content management system beyond the rudimentary DreamWeaver Templates I’d been struggling with to manage the entire site. It worked for awhile, but it was obviously time to get [...]
How to Get Real-Time Content for WebSites & Blogs: Sency Real Time Search offers a simple to use widget that gives your blog access to up to the minute buzz on what’s going on across social media (primarily Twitter). Available in a WordPress Plug-in or HTML 5 snippet. The video below shows the process to [...]
After more than a decade of building websites, I have determined that the WordPress platform is an essential part of my online business, because it is so quick and easy to install on a new domain. In this article, I am going to review the Top 5 Benefits of using WordPress as a Content Management [...]
Crossing out problems and instead offering solutions I make mistakes. You make mistakes. We all do. And some of these mistakes end up providing our readers with a 404 page. Chances are that page says “Error 404: file not found”. How does that help your visitor? Instead of just identifying the problem, your 404 page [...]
