The holidays are upon us and while we have to maintain our online business presence during the festivities, it's OK to take breaks. Specifically, who can resist (whether we have children or not) watching fun holiday movies? In fact, many of their themes can actually be applied by us, giving us … [Read more...] about What Can Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Teach You About Your Online Business? Plenty
How to Use the FileZilla FTP Client for Your WordPress Site
While there are auto-installation tools at many web host providers to get WordPress installed, many people like finer control of the installation process. The best way in that case is to use an FTP tool. FileZilla is one of the more popular tools so in this article I will walk through some steps of … [Read more...] about How to Use the FileZilla FTP Client for Your WordPress Site
Top 10 SEO Tools and Add-ons for Your Online Business
The phrase SEO tool is an umbrella term that includes any piece of software or service which can: help you improve your website's visibility build a credible online brand garner strategic and competitive intelligence research keywords and links track social media performance create … [Read more...] about Top 10 SEO Tools and Add-ons for Your Online Business
6 Simple Strategies to Get Blog Posts Indexed by Google Quickly
In this article I offer some tips for writing blog posts that are geared up for search engine traffic, and that are written to be shared in the social web. For the example, I will be walking through how I create a real post for a high authority health web site. I will also be creating a video to … [Read more...] about 6 Simple Strategies to Get Blog Posts Indexed by Google Quickly
How to Link Your WordPress Site to Facebook
This is a follow up article for the how do I create a successful blog series that we have been publishing on this site to help users get started and create a successful blog. Many WordPress bloggers like to be the original sharer of their newly posted content. They may share it to Facebook or … [Read more...] about How to Link Your WordPress Site to Facebook
How to Install WordPress Multi-Site in Localhost (Using XAMPP)
So you want to install a WordPress Multi-site Network on your local computer using XAMPP, huh? (you like that HTML Goodies throwback?) Well, in this article, and the accompanying video I will go through the process to make that happen. I will be using XAMPP to run a "web server" on my local … [Read more...] about How to Install WordPress Multi-Site in Localhost (Using XAMPP)
How to Add Meta Boxes to Provide Extra Content for WordPress Posts
I started a new blog several months back and I wanted to include extra boxes on the WordPress edit/add post screen to provide extra "behind the scenes" data. More specifically I started to learn more about how meta tags (HTML elements that aren't shown in the browser unless "viewing source") can … [Read more...] about How to Add Meta Boxes to Provide Extra Content for WordPress Posts
How To Create an Attractive Subscribe & Follow Box For Your WordPress Blog
Your WordPress blog isn't the only place that you should be adding fresh content to. It's important these days to also add new content to social networks as well. Most of the time, webmasters create profiles and pages on social sites that are specific to just one web site (or niche that they are … [Read more...] about How To Create an Attractive Subscribe & Follow Box For Your WordPress Blog
How to Install Google Analytics Tracking into a WordPress Web Site
This is a follow up article for the how do I start a successful blog series that we have been publishing on this site to help users get started and create a successful blog. Google Analytics (GA) is the de facto standard for tracking the statistics for properties on the web. It is free to use … [Read more...] about How to Install Google Analytics Tracking into a WordPress Web Site
How to Install A WordPress Multi-Site Network [Video Tutorial]
Ever since version 3 of WordPress was launched, users had the ability to create a network of WP sites or blogs, allowing us to own a site similar to WordPress.com. Using what's called the 'multisite' feature we could have many sites running, only having just one installation of the software … [Read more...] about How to Install A WordPress Multi-Site Network [Video Tutorial]