In WordPress you have a lot of possibilities to tweak menus in order to create the perfect navigation system for your site. You can position menus in predefined spots or place them wherever you want as widgets. You can, furthermore, create simple menus, multilevel menus, and mega menus – all without using plugins. Last but…
You know that you want to blog and you have something specific you want to blog about. But you simply don’t know how to start. This post will help you on the way by describing the necessary steps you need to take. From Blogging Idea to Action To make it easier to understand, I’ll use…
Good pictures are a must for bloggers as a post without any media can be quite boring for the eye and make people bounce instead of read what you wrote. But low quality photos aren’t recommended to use as they’ll make your blog look unprofessional and professional photos can cost a lot. There’s luckily a…
Backlinks have been one of the pillars of SEO since the 90s and it still seems that a lot depends on them. However, their role has changed dramatically in the last decade and now it’s far from enough to generate lots of links. Search engines are getting smarter and smarter and the emphasis on content is…
If you want to start and run a professionally looking blog or site for free, you’ll soon find out that it’s not as easy to match and mix the free website services as you might hope. Here you can see what you’re going to need to make a professional site, what’s available for free, and…
You’ve just published a great blog post and you want to check how the snippet looks in Google search. You type the exact title of your post in hope that it’ll appear among the first results. You wait… Nothing! Your post is simply not in Google! What’s happening? And even more importantly: how to fix…
WordPress is designed to be simple to use. Thus, you can start blogging without almost touching its settings. To make this possible, the default setting in WordPress is that your home page also serves as a post page. So, if you want a static front page or would like to have multiple post pages, you’ve…
Plugin incompatibility is the number one issue for most webmasters working with WordPress. The reason is that there are countless developers offering plugins and themes for WordPress and countless developers means unfortunately countless different coding styles and countless possibilities for errors and incompatibility issues. The good news is that the vast number of choices out there means…
Content curation can be a good and a bad strategy for a blogger – depending on how it’s done. If you do it right, it’s a recipe for success, if you do it wrong it can turn into a disaster. If you’re not certain that your current strategy works, this post can help you evaluate and optimize your…
Optimization for long tail keywords is becoming more and more the standard in SEO. The reason is that search patterns of internet users have changed – as have search engine criteria for relevancy of results. There’re in fact at least 5 major benefits of optimizing for long tail keywords making it a very good idea…