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Blog site Like A Pro: Idea For Utilizing Wordpress Are you interested in having your own blog? Maybe you already blog with WordPress, but aren't happy with its setup. There are a variety of tools and plugins that will http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_developer improve the appearance of your blog. Follow the tips presented here to create a highly dynamic WordPress blog. Make the most of your titles and your descriptions. Any time you share posts on social media sites a description and title may be required. These are important in terms of good search engine optimization, so don't just toss out titles and descriptions in a random fashion. Give it some thought and optimize with good keywords. Make the most of your titles and your descriptions. Any time you share posts on social media sites a description and title may be required. These are important in terms of good search engine optimization, so don't just toss out titles and descriptions in a random fashion. Give it some thought and optimize with good keywords. Most templates come with a landing page built in, so make use of it. This stripped down page allows you to focus their intention on exactly what you want them to look at, be it a sign-up form or a "Buy Now" link. This ensures they take the actions you want them to. Sidebars are generally packed full of useless information. To help streamline them and only include information that your visitors want, navigate to Appearance & Widgets. Remove everything from your sidebar that does not get more people on your list, make visitors take an action or make you money. By paring down your sidebar, your WordPress site will become successful. Video blogging is a snap with WordPress. While you may need to prepare a little more, that makes things worth it. A lot of web users are drawn to video blogging because of their personal visual preferences. A video can show them things that the written word just can't convey, and as a result, it can be a very powerful tool. If you don't like your theme, change it! There are thousands of free themes available online which allow you to quickly and easily change the look of your site without having to know much about HTML coding. Be sure to choose themes from reputable sites to ensure they don't affect the security of your software. Make use of a landing page. Instead of coming directly to current posts, users will pass through this landing page first. You can use this for a variety of reasons, whether for promoting a product or promoting yourself. Many themes feature a landing page; however, there are also paid options. Include useful links at your footer. The footer is located at the bottom of your site. Most sites include contact information, copyright information and links to other sites in the footer. By including useful

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Page 1: Blog site Like A Pro: Idea For Utilizing Wordpress

Blog site Like A Pro: Idea For Utilizing Wordpress

Are you interested in having your own blog? Maybe you already blog with WordPress, but aren'thappy with its setup. There are a variety of tools and plugins that willhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_developer improve the appearance of your blog. Follow the tipspresented here to create a highly dynamic WordPress blog.

Make the most of your titles and your descriptions. Any time you share posts on social media sites adescription and title may be required. These are important in terms of good search engineoptimization, so don't just toss out titles and descriptions in a random fashion. Give it some thoughtand optimize with good keywords.

Make the most of your titles and your descriptions. Any time you share posts on social media sites adescription and title may be required. These are important in terms of good search engineoptimization, so don't just toss out titles and descriptions in a random fashion. Give it some thoughtand optimize with good keywords.

Most templates come with a landing page built in, so make use of it. This stripped down page allowsyou to focus their intention on exactly what you want them to look at, be it a sign-up form or a "BuyNow" link. This ensures they take the actions you want them to.

Sidebars are generally packed full of uselessinformation. To help streamline them and only includeinformation that your visitors want, navigate toAppearance & Widgets. Remove everything from yoursidebar that does not get more people on your list, make

visitors take an action or make you money. By paring down your sidebar, your WordPress site willbecome successful.

Video blogging is a snap with WordPress. While you may need to prepare a little more, that makesthings worth it. A lot of web users are drawn to video blogging because of their personal visualpreferences. A video can show them things that the written word just can't convey, and as a result, itcan be a very powerful tool.

If you don't like your theme, change it! There are thousands of free themes available online whichallow you to quickly and easily change the look of your site without having to know much aboutHTML coding. Be sure to choose themes from reputable sites to ensure they don't affect the securityof your software.

Make use of a landing page. Instead of coming directly to current posts, users will pass through thislanding page first. You can use this for a variety of reasons, whether for promoting a product orpromoting yourself. Many themes feature a landing page; however, there are also paid options.

Include useful links at your footer. The footer is located at the bottom of your site. Most sites includecontact information, copyright information and links to other sites in the footer. By including useful

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information in your footer, you can increase the sales, referrals and traffic to your site.

Organize your permalinks. You need to make your links easy for the search engines to find yourimportant information. You should learn proper SEO to do this. In the meantime, you can useWordPress's included permalink form to clean up links before publication. Cut words down to onlythe most important ones. Also, try cleverly adding your keywords to your descriptions.

Approving comments manually is an obsolete procedure. Let Akismet filter out the spam for you. Youhave the ability to receive a message when a comment is left, but it is wiser to uncheck the manualapproval options. Otherwise, you are not saving any time.

For a more customizable commenting system, try using CommentLuv. This system si a premiumplugin that is pretty popular with bloggers. It makes commenting on other blogs easy. You can set itup to leave a link that connects automatically to your latest post. This is ideal for things likegiveaways since it lets more people know about it.

Try installing a caching plugin in your WordPress site. There are many out there, but a popular oneis W3 Total Cache. This plugin simply caches the website and keeps it from reloading each time apage is reloaded. This makes your site faster. It speeds things up because every file isn't being calledevery time a page reloads.

You don't have to manually approve commentsanymore. Instead, Akismet can do this for you. Don'tbother with manual approval. You are not actuallysaving time, otherwise.

Regularly save a back up copy of your site by using theExport function available in WordPress. This createyour historical database of backups that let you returnto a recent back up or clean copy should you get hacked of if the server dies.

Using the WPTouch plugin lets you create a mobile-friendly website without doing any extra work.All you need to do is install a second, mobile-friendly theme which the site will automatically switchto when someone arrives at it via a mobile device. Your content will stay the same, of course.

As you are learning how to customize a Wordpress template, choose a template that is highly flexibleand which is updated constantly. Current updates means that the developers are active in improvingthe template. If you choose a high-quality template for your foundation, you will practically haveunlimited choices in how you can customize this into your own unique design.

Come up with a tagging and category strategy for your WordPress blog. Categories and tags willhelp you keep your posts website seo audits organized. Plus, it'll make it easier for your visitors tofind content that they're interested in. As well, certain search plugins let you weight thosecategories and tags in search relevancy which makes your search much more targeted.

Join an online forum full of Wordpress users. This way you can brainstorm ideas and get suggestionsfor your site. People are going to be happy to help you avoid their own Wordpress mistakes. Just do alittle reading to get some information, and you'll find that a good forum is better than buying a lot ofbooks.

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Do you feel like you've gained some valuable information about using WordPress. You are now readyto see what you can do using this top-notch blogging platform. WordPress is very unique andprovides users with so many different opportunities and options. So begin your journey now byimplementing the strategies learned.