Beginners Guide

It’s no longer enough to rely on Google to provide your website visitors. Social media has become an incredibly powerful force for driving website traffic in recent years and has been overtaking search referrals for several years already. It’s important to make your content highly shareable if you want to take advantage of social media. The most important step to…. Continue Reading

Struggling with how to add 301 redirects to WordPress? These nifty redirects are an SEO friendly approach that let you re-route traffic to your site in a number of helpful ways. But they’re also confusing for many casual WordPress users. So, to help you out, I’m going to use this post to dig into 301 redirects as they apply to…. Continue Reading

A content delivery network, or CDN, is a network of worldwide servers that delivers cached web content to users based on their location. Because it takes less time to send data over a shorter geographical distance, using a CDN to host your website instead of a single server can speed up loading times for your website. Cloudflare CDN can also…. Continue Reading

One of the great things about WordPress is how easy and quick it is to setup. Many web hosts now offer management dashboards with one-click WordPress installation, often with the option of pre-installing some of the most popular plugins and themes. Even if you install WordPress manually, the process is pretty simple. However, if you’re frequently setting up new sites…. Continue Reading

When you develop a site on your local machine you don’t have to worry about the time and bandwidth used in uploading files, or hiding development sites from view until they’re ready to be published. Having a local version of your site locally also provides you with a staging environment where you can easily test any site changes out of…. Continue Reading

WordPress is most certainly the world’s favorite content management system (CMS). It powers over 70 million websites, which makes a whooping 60% of all websites that run on a CMS. This figure translates to about 25% of all websites on the planet! Travel back in time twelve years, and this wasn’t the case. WordPress was a bare blogging platform that…. Continue Reading

Imagine this: You’ve just finished writing the most epic blog post ever. You’re boiling over with excitement over the buzz your post is going to generate. You hit the publish button and then go watch Game of Thrones. The next day, nobody has visited your blog. Nobody has read your epic post. Why? Because attracting visitors to your blog involves…. Continue Reading

They say that content is king. But to really rule the web, your content has to be epic. Like, really epic. It has to do more than just inform. It has to entertain, grab attention and be able to drive tons of traffic. Unfortunately, a basic blog post isn’t always going to cut it. To fully utilize content marketing, your…. Continue Reading

The About page is one of the most important pages on your WordPress blog. Yes, the one where you slapped on some info about yourself a year ago and haven’t looked at since. Really, that’s important? Isn’t the About page just something every blogger creates out of a sense of duty? Unfortunately, that is often the case. However, that doesn’t mean…. Continue Reading

Whenever we learn a new skill, we make mistakes. It’s inevitable. Blogging is no exception. It’s a skill, you’re learning it, and you will make mistakes. But don’t worry about it. The most important thing about making mistakes is learning from them, which is what I’ve done in the five or so years I’ve used WordPress. With that in mind, in…. Continue Reading