Many bloggers ask whether they should enable comments on their blog. Blog comments can be a great source of conversation and community building. But there are also disadvantages to allowing people to comment on your website. In this article, I’ll try to answer some of the questions you may be asking, such as whether blogging …
There many things to consider when starting a new blog. If you’re an aspiring blogger, Save time and money with this free WordPress blog launch checklist. This step-by-step list will help you avoid problems, get the best deals on software and services, and start a WordPress blog with the best possible chance of success. Starting …
The speed of your WordPress website has had an impact on it’s rankings ever since the search engine business announced that speed is a ranking factor for Google Search and ads. But since Google’s page experience signals was pushed as a ranking factor, website owners and internet commentators have been frantically testing, writing about, and …
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Pre-publishing checks can often mean the difference between content that just sits on your blog and content that gets tons of love from search engines or goes viral on Google Discover and social media. Before you publish a blog post, use this checklist to see if your content is correctly formatted and well-optimized. Remove the …
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Free WordPress themes are limited and don’t offer the features you need to make a successful travel blog. This post will help you to select the right theme for your blog in 2021. Travel bloggers need beautiful websites, but many travel blogs are, well, ugly. It can be hard to create something beautiful when you …
This Pinterest tutorial for WordPress users will help you to start getting traffic from Pinterest to your blog. Pinterest is a visual search engine and is one of the most underused free traffic channels that you can leverage to grow your blog. When it’s done right, Pinterest marketing can drive a ton of referral traffic. …
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When sharing your posts or pages on Facebook, the image may not display as you would have expected. Sometimes an incorrect image is shared instead of the one you wanted. But don’t blame Facebook, this is happening because you haven’t configured WordPress to display the right images when sharing on Social Media. I’ll show you …
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WordPress is the platform of choice for the vast majority of food bloggers. With its mature ecosystem, active and engaged community, and a seemingly endless supply of free and premium add-ons (or plugins) to help beginner and advanced bloggers, WordPress offers owners of food blogs everything they need to get started blogging and take their …
Build a simple carousel header that runs across the top of your website on blog posts or pages. This is a great-looking feature that draws attention to the blog posts or landing pages that you want to promote. learn how to create this carousel feature and place it literally anywhere on a content page. Many …
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In this post & video, I’ll explain a quick way to create better-looking blog post widgets in the sidebar of your Astra theme. You will need The regular post widget is boring and limited to text only. But what if you want to showcase the amazing images you have on your blog posts in the …
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At Fat Frog Media, we manage a successful food blog as a side project. And we’ve learned a lot from practical experiences about what works on food blogs. The techniques that get results are not the same as one would apply to a marketing blog, or a fitness blog, or pretty much any other genre. …
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All images are not created equal. The photos, images, and designs on your website can have a huge impact on a website, and not just in terms of aesthetics. Don’t fall foul to Google penalties and don’t annoy your visitors. Take advantage of the SEO benefits and performance gains from creating the perfect web images. Here’s …
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I get asked all the time for recommendations on web hosting companies. The questions come from business owners frustrated with GoDaddy’s awful service and marketing funnels. Or they’ve been duped into signing up for some half-baked hosting service. If you’re not happy with your hosting account, you should change. Switching hosting account can seem like …
WordPress is an excellent tool for newbie bloggers. It’s simple to install and straight out of the box offers an easy path to publishing content. The most popular blogging platform in the world became the most popular Content Management System (CMS) through more than 10 years of development. The benefits of WordPress for beginners are …
For most businesses, re-branding means changing domain names. In some cases, the business name won’t change but the domain will need to. An example of the latter might be if your domain name example.net is changing to example.com. The company name remains the same but the domain name changes. You might even change from HTTP …
Improving a site’s efficiency is often an overlooked practice. A good example of software ripe for some optimization work is WordPress. Out of the box, WordPress is an excellent tool for building a blog or business website but it’s rather inefficient unless tweaked a little. Caching for WordPress is a great way of squeezing a …
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