Understanding the WordPress Template Hierarchy
WordPress Coding & Design Quick Introduction – I’m Sarah and I will be writing each Sunday on intermediate to advanced WordPress topics including template development, tips and tricks, PHP coding for use in WordPress and plugin development. I’ll be basing my posts on the latest version of WordPress, and also assume an understanding of HTML and CSS, and presume you don’t run at the sight of a little PHP I’d love to hear what you want to read about on this subject so please let me know in the comments. Understanding the WordPress Template Hierarchy At the very least a WordPress theme ...
Continue readingWhen You Are Writing A Post…Do You Forget Who You Are Writing For?
Blogging, Writing You’ve heard all the SEO tips… “Place keywords in your post titles.” “Use h1 and h2 tags here, there, and everywhere.” “Make sure that blah, blah, blah, SEO trick, blah, blah etc…” Now, I am not discounting the fact that SEO is important to ranking your posts, and pages, and your blog altogether, but I have seen numerous bloggers forgetting ...
Continue readingEasy Link Blog.
Blogging In the process of redesigning my portfolio I decided to upgrade how I presented links to select articles here at blogging tips. Previously it was a static and simple list of links off the to the side, but I wanted to simplify the addition of new article links and have them included in my RSS feed. I looked at a few plugins for asides and link blogs, but I chose a much simpler and convenient ...
Continue readingHow To Find Expired Domains Easily
Domain Names & Hosting Image Source: ©aius Whenever someone registers a domain, they have an expiry date before which they have to renew it. But few people, either forget or deliberately, let their domain to expire which result in a lot of expired domains everyday. We can profit by registering them in several ways. If it is a keyword domain, you can park it and earn money. If it is a 3-5 lettered domain, you can ...
Continue readingBeyond Stickiness: Nine Magnetic Ways to Keep ‘em Coming Back for More Pt.2
Promote your blog As we discussed yesterday, you have three seconds to hook visitors on your website. Snap, snap, snap – and they are gone. Without further adu, lets jump right into the following methods of increasing stickiness on your website. Make Your E Mail Communications Valuable but Not Too Valuable As the barrage of e-mail communications (e-zines, tip of the week, etc.) escalates it is absolutely ...
Continue readingQuiz: What kind of blogger are you?
Blogging Take this quick quiz to find out whether you’re committed to your blog…or whether you should just plain BE committed. 1. You tried a weird breakfast cereal this morning, way different from your normal breakfast. You: A) Write a long post about it when you get to work, though your blog isn’t generally food-oriented. But see, this cereal had super weird flakes that got stuck in your ...
Continue readingBeyond Stickiness: Nine Magnetic Ways to Keep ‘em Coming Back for More Pt.1
Promote your blog You have three seconds. Snap. Snap. Snap. And they’re gone. How can you get your visitors to linger longer? The technical Internet word for enticing surfers to hang around your blog is stickiness. Stickiness is usually associated with three factors: 1. Duration: How long do your visitors spend at your site? 2. Depth: How deep will they go exploring? 3. Frequency: How often do your visitors ...
Continue readingBlogging and Search Engine Optimization Tips
Search Engine Optimisation Information is the one thing that can take a person to any place they want to be. Because learning is the key to everything and that applies even to blogging and search engine optimization. Each of these is something powerful and has its own function in the wide Internet world. There are different tactics available at your fingertips for success and if you want to be successful with blogging, it ...
Continue readingHow Blogs are Powerful Tools for Community Outreach
Blogging Blogs, by their nature, are community online tools, very similar to forums in that they allow easy interaction and communication between online users. Although forums are typically closed communities where discussion takes place within the community, blogs are more open; conversation takes place both on the blog and between websites. Members run the best forums, in that the editorial control of a ...
Continue reading10 ways to earn more stumble upon traffic
Promote your blog Stumble Upon is a nice tool to increase the traffic volume on your website although it may give you increased bounce rates. However, there is some value with the stumble upon traffic, it is a different and outstanding community of people out there who are very particular about the content. If you take care of the content and set a trap (may be the wrong word) the traffic will pour down. Here are ...
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