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Jan 25, 20121

Some Useful Things About WordPress Which You Should Know

Categories: Web development, Wordpress
Some Useful Things About WordPress Which You Should Know
Straight out of the box, WordPress is an amazingly effective content management system and blogging platform.Within its core PHP interior resides functionality which makes it the most flexible and easy to use platform for creating websites ranging from the simplest blog to a full blown business eCommerce site.The majority of the WordPress functionality is clearly visible and accessible from the user interface in the administration panel.However there are also some other less obvious but powerful functional features which are available when you delve a little deeper into the WordPress internals.This article will introduce you to two common and useful functional features of WordPress which you should be aware of. WordPress Template Hierarchy WordPress uses a hierarchical template structure which determines how it renders any particular page or view for your currently active theme.The mechanics of this hierarchy are quite simple. WordPress will automatically check for the existence of certain template files in your theme folder in a pre-determined order whenever it is trying to render a particular page or view.For instance let’s take the example of a WordPress page. Before rendering any “page”, WordPress will check for the following templates in the order shown until it finds one and it will then display ...
Aug 17, 201110

Split Testing on Your WordPress Site Using Google Website Optimizer

Categories: Site Optimization Tips
Split Testing on Your WordPress Site Using Google Website Optimizer
Since we published the Maximize Revenue 101: Should You Lower or Increase the Product Price to Increase Revenue article, a few readers have asked us to provide a step by step guide on how to setup split testing on a WordPress powered site. Google website optimizer is probably the best tool out there for setting up split testing.In this article we have included a PDF file with step by step guide on how to setup split testing using Google Website Optimizer and a WordPress plugin.Click on the following link to open the PDF file:How to Do Split Testing on Your WordPress Site Using Google Website OptimizerI hope this helps you easily setup split testing for your products on your WordPress powered site.
Aug 11, 20115

3 Questions Blog Owners Should Ask Themselves Regarding Their Content

Categories: Blog Setup, Blogging Tips
3 Questions Blog Owners Should Ask Themselves Regarding Their Content
Every website on the Internet contains some type of content which is aimed at attracting visitors. The motivations of website owners for enticing visitors to their site can range from sharing opinions, passions or life experiences, to converting visitors into customers or subscribers.Whatever your motives are for building your blog, there are certain questions you should ask yourself regarding your content in order to determine whether you’re maximizing the potential of your blog’s success.Listed below are what I believe to be the 3 most important questions you should be asking yourself regarding the content of your blog:Does your content provide value, or an informative or educational benefit? If your blog is not offering people something interesting, informative or of value which will save them time, or money or perhaps a solution to a problem, then the chances are that you will struggle to gain readership. So if you already have a blog which is getting hardly any visitors then maybe you should do a quick analysis or inventory of your content to see how you can make it more useful. There are many things you can do to provide such value to your readership.For example:You can save your readers the time of ...
Jul 25, 20118

8 Ways to Access Blocked Sites

Categories: Tech Tips, Web development
8 Ways to Access Blocked Sites
Businesses are much more clever now: they see how popular the web and social networking is and often block those sites from employee access. Not only are work places doing this, but so are schools, colleges, even some libraries and churches. If you want to access your social networking profiles, email or blogs from one of these locations, it can be frustrating. At a company that does live chat customer support software that I work for we needed to access our tools from all over the world and it was very difficult. Also we all know that it’s really hard to stay away from these sites for 8-9 hours a day while at work or school; so here are 8 methods you can use to access these blocked sites. Proxy Servers Proxies are the most popular method of accessing blocked websites because they can bypass network restrictions. They help protect your privacy by letting you surf anonymously and securely. The connections are encrypted and help to prevent monitoring on your network, so it will never be traced back to you. Best of all they’re very simple to use: enter your URL and check/uncheck a few specifications and you’ll be surfing within seconds.Examples: ...
Jan 24, 201127

6 SEO Strategies That Can Generate Highly Targeted Traffic

Categories: SEO, Site Optimization Tips
6 SEO Strategies That Can Generate Highly Targeted Traffic
Developing SEO strategies that can drive an immense amount of traffic to your site within a month is not an easy task, especially if you want your site’s visitors to convert into profits. Generating highly targeted traffic or visitors that have the intent of availing the services or products that you are offering is the best way to really earn from your website.The good news is that there are many ways that you can do to hasten the process of having your site noticed by people who are in need of the information, services or products that you provide. Here are some of the ways that you can do to generate specifically targeted online visitors in under a month.1. Target easy to rank long-tail keywords through blog postsIf your site has no blog section yet, then you better start including one. Blogs can benefit your business in so many ways, and consistently driving traffic to your site is one of them. Using long-tail keywords in your blog posts’ titles (eg. How to learn SEO), can extremely help your site’s performance in terms of traffic generation, seeing as this strategy can very much take your blog posts on top of SERPs ...
May 19, 201029

Plugins to Speed Up Your WordPress Site

Categories: Site Optimization Tips, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugin
Plugins to Speed Up Your WordPress Site
Speeding up your WordPress blog goes a long way to improve its popularity. As the website loads faster, your visitor enjoys browsing, driving high traffic and generating revenue. While there are many proven ways to boost a site's performance (a lot of these are explained in the WordPress Optimization Tips and Tricks post), in this article we will take a look at some WordPress plugins that allows you to perform critical front-end and back-end optimizations, within the comfort of your WordPress dashboard.In the first section of this article I have listed the well known WordPress caching plugins and my recommendation. The next section has a list of few nice utility type plugins which you might find useful (depending on your situation). Please note that you don't need to install all of the plugins listed here on your site (Just pick whatever fits your needs).Top WordPress Caching Plugins W3 Total Cache A lot of people still use the WP Super Cache plugin. WP Super Cache is a nice plugin but have you tried the W3 Total Cache plugin yet? If you are using a WordPress caching plugin and you have never tried the W3 Total Cache then you seriously need to give this ...
May 9, 201017

When Themes Go Wild – Importance of Using a Properly Coded WordPress Theme

Categories: Wordpress, WordPress Theme
When Themes Go Wild – Importance of Using a Properly Coded WordPress Theme
It is surprising to see how many of my customers/users do not use a properly coded WordPress theme. Using a properly coded theme on a WordPress powered site is very important without any doubt. So I wanted to quickly make a blog post to highlight a few points to make sure you don’t go down the path of using a wrong WordPress theme only to regret it later. Remember, just because a theme looks good to the naked eye does not mean it has been properly coded.Why is It Important to Have a Proper Theme? Before I talk about some of the main points, here is the summary –The amount of time you will be spending to fix issues that all stem from the bad theme is just not worth it! Issues with WordPress Plugins It is common to have issues with WordPress plugins that uses JavaScript for example to do various things when your theme is poorly coded. So you will think that the problem is with the plugin but actually the theme is the true culprit here.Example1: I have had many clients who complained about the WordPress Simple Shopping Cart’s variation not working properly on their site. After I finished my ...
Apr 13, 201015

Site Speed is Now a Search Ranking Factor for Google Search

Categories: Site Optimization Tips, Web development
Site Speed is Now a Search Ranking Factor for Google Search
Google has officially made site speed one of the factors for search rank (there are over 200 ranking factors). So now is a good time to read the WordPress site optimization tips post and put some plan of action in place.Now, you have no reason to go into a panic mode just yet. Optimizing your site for better performance is always a good thing from a usability point of view but Google has indicated that only about 1% of search queries and even fewer search results will be affected from this change at this stage.There are several research statistics that show that decreasing your site load time on pages leads to an increase in sales which we all want. There are three things to take away from what Google is doing.Speeding up your website is a good general practice. Think about how many times you have waited for a site to load. When the site takes too long you usually end up closing the browser and moving on. This change will have a small impact on most sites, so don't panic. Small constructive changes can have a direct impact on improving your site and user experience. Instead of wasting time where it ...
Apr 6, 20109

Web Analytics 101 – Learn Which Analytics Data You Should be Using

Categories: Site Optimization Tips, Web development
Web Analytics 101 – Learn Which Analytics Data You Should be Using
If you are running a small website, chances are you've already heard of Web Analytics. If you haven't, it is a tool for measuring traffic of your website. It provides data on the number of visitors, page views etc to gauge the popularity of the site. For many people, using analytics is limited to watching how many more visitors have come to the site, and repeating the figures to potential advertisers. If used smartly, analytics is also a marketing tool, an e-commerce tracker, an ad tool, and the list goes on. In this article, we'll have a look at basic ways to use the analytics.Choosing an Analytics Software First of all, you need to have an analytics software set up for your website, which mostly means signing up for an account of an analytics provider, and adding a few lines of javascript code to your pages. Google Analytics is the most widely used analytics tool. It's also free and integrating it in a WordPress site is just a matter of adding a plugin to your site! If you like to have choices, you can search the Internet looking for some other alternative solutions. This article lists a number of analytics software ...
Jan 25, 201012

10 Common HTML Mistakes to Avoid

Categories: Web development
10 Common HTML Mistakes to Avoid
The following is a list of common HTML mark up mistakes made by front end developers. Whether you are a newbie web designer, or a programmer who wants to try his hands in UI designing, try to avoid these mistakes.1. Don't place Block elements within Inline elements An HTML element is displayed as Block or as Inline by default. Block elements, such as divs and paragraphs, make up the structure of the document. Inline elements reside in these blocks, such as anchor and span tags. So you should never put blocks inside inline elements.Wrong: <a href="#"><h2>Block inside Inline</h2></a> Right: <h2><a href="#">Inline inside Block</a></h2> 2. Always have the alt attribute for image tags The ALT attribute is a required one for IMG tags, it describes the context of the image. It helps your user on a screen reader or with a slow connection to decide whether or not the image is important. It also makes the web crawler index your contents better. If the images is just for show, use an empty ALT attribute like alt=""Wrong: <img src="profilepic.jpeg"/> Right: <img src="profilepic.jpeg" alt="Profile pic of the user"/> 3. Don't use line breaks to show a list If you wan't to show a list of things in bulleted or numbered ...
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