Most bloggers blog away, and slowly — over time — build up their readership. They are rocking along on a hosting company pretty much like everyone else’s and not giving much thought to bandwidth or page views.
Oh sure, we all want more, I mean who doesn’t want more page views? But what happens to your site if suddenly, with no warning — 30 thousand people show up? It can happen if you land on the front page of Digg.
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Featured , Plugins , SEO , Wordpress
I have been promising a list of my personal *must have* plugins that I install on any new blog. Today, that promise is kept.
These are the plugins I install on every blog I create, regardless of niche or specialty. There are a few that I add to certain types of blogs that will won’t be discussed, but you can get more information on these in my book, the Ultimate Guide To Wordpress Plugins.
They are listed alphabetically, not in the order of installation.
Read The RestYep, you heard me right. Spammers, hackers, trogans and viruses… it’s a jungle out there. And your blog is a sitting duck.
I have a series of suggestions I will be making over the upcoming days to help you defend this valuable asset in your online marketing arsenal, so stayed tuned. And if you haven’t grabbed the RSS feed yet, this might be a good time…
Read The RestI know you thought you’d never hear me say this, but a plugin isn’t always the best way to handle a small change in your Wordpress Theme. Especially since each plugin adds it’s own load time to the overall page load time. Fast = visitors stay longer.
Come on, we are a generation of short-attention spanned humans, struggling to assimilate the thousands of bits of information that flow like a river into our awareness. The longer a page takes to load, the less inclined we are to look at other content on a site. One slow page, especially the main page, and most folks will pack up their little red wagon and move on.
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Anyone who tells you just *put a product out there*, hasn’t actually tried that. Trust me.
There is a bit of work involved, but I have to say, it was worth it. When I sat back (at 5:30am this morning) and reviewed everything one last time, I can’t tell you the sense of accomplishment, almost awe, at all that I beheld.
Okay, remember it’s early so I am allowed to *wax poetic* a little, right?
Many of the guru’s will tell you to outsource, and while I agree to a certain extent, you should have some idea how…
Read The RestOkay, this is a tease. Sorry about that. I am working on a new eBook, which is why I haven’t been blogging as much recently. Well, that and the other 10 blogs I manage. Sheesh. I gotta simplify. But I digress. I do private coaching with people just starting out with the whole *blogging * […]
Read The RestA few days ago, I was working on one of my blogs, and I happen to notice that the .htaccess file was larger than I remembered. I am talking about file size here . Yeah, I know. It’s not the kind of thing most people notice, but I kinda have a thing for numbers. And […]
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As I get more proficient with blogging, I am finding more and more really cool plugins and tools to help. One such plugin that I found recently was sooooo way cool, I just had to share it in it’s own post. (Come on, you knew I was a Wordpress Plugin Junkie, right?)
WordPress Tweaks is a plugin that adds a "Tweaks" page to your WordPress options. Each individual tweak can be enabled/disabled at will using a checkbox.
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