Archive for Blogging

  There’s many reasons you’d want to set up Facebook Comments on your WordPress site. Here’s some… Traffic generation. When people leave a Facebook comment on your WordPress site, by default they also share that comment on their Facebook profile. This means that all their friends see the comment, and the link to your site! ...

  Facebook Like buttons are appearing all over the place… and you should have them on your blog too! Here’s why… Free, viral traffic! When someone ‘Likes’ a website, it appears on their Facebook profile (as a clickable link) for all their friends to see. If their friends visit your site and do the same ...

  In this post I’ll show you step-by-step how to add a contact form to your WordPress site. Adding a contact form to your website is a smart move. Here’s why… If you publish your contact email address on your site, spammers and their robots will find it and send you a whole lot of ...

  The WordPress backup plugin that I use and highly recommend is WP-DB-Backup. It’s so important that you backup your WordPress database, especially if you have a lot of content on your site. Also, if you’re going to update your version of WordPress to the latest one, it is highly recommended that you backup your ...

  WordPress plugins can be updated within your WordPress dashboard and this is the quickest and easiest way to do it. Here’s the step-by-step procedure: After you’ve logged into the WordPress dashboard,  locate the ‘Dashboard‘ section on the left-hand side (usually the first section in the left-hand column) Click on ‘Updates‘. This menu item will ...

  Here’s a great question that one of my subscribers asked me recently… “What WordPress plugins do you use on your blog?” Below I’ve listed the plugins that I use on this blog and a brief description of what they do and why you would want them. The plugins are listed alphabetically, and not in ...

When considering the question of “how to design a blog?“, the answer will vary depending on what you want to achieve from the blog. In this article we’ll go over three blog designs, first, a standard blog design, second, a blog designed for lead capture, and third, a blog designed for monetization. Standard Blog Design ...

What are blogs? Almost everyone has heard of the term but not many people actually know what a blog is. The word itself is derived from the combination of two words; “web” + “log”. When you look at it in this light, it gives you a better understanding of how blogs started out. They are ...

The best blog software is WordPress. If you’re serious about blogging and making money online, then there is no other blog software you will need to consider. There’s nothing that comes even close to it. Why is WordPress the best blog software? Here’s a few reasons: It’s easy to install and use It’s 100% scalable ...