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"This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines to better index your blog. This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it's much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content."

"The Editorial Calendar makes it possible to see all your posts and drag and drop them to manage your blog. Did you remember to write a post for next Tuesday? What about the Tuesday after that? WordPress doesn't make it easy to see when your posts are scheduled. The editorial calendar gives you an overview of your blog and when each post will be published. You can drag and drop to move posts, edit posts right in the calendar, and manage your entire blog."

"There's one phrase every internet user will be horribly familiar with. A set of words they'll have encountered hundreds, if not thousands of times, and that always prompts a brief moment of confusion: The page cannot be found. The page you're looking for might've been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. "Did I make a mistake while typing?" you ask. "Is the site down? It was working a few minutes ago!" For web developers however, 404 errors are not simply small nuisances but rather a leading cause of sleepless nights. Brief downtime or linking mistakes can lead to visitors leaving your site altogether, and a multitude of dead pages can cost you in terms of SEO. Luckily there are a large number of WordPress plugins dedicated specifically to solving this problem. However, before we discuss the leading candidates, let's start with a brief word about 404s. 1. 404 Page 2. All 404 Redirect to Homepage 3. 404 to 301 4. Custom 404 Pro 5. 404 Error Logger 6. Redirection"

This is a step by step guide on How To Start a Blog Using the best tools out there, this guide show step by step how to do it. We use WordPress and free tools to get it done. You don't need any expertise or previous experience.

"Unless you've been hiding under a (presumably delightfully comfortable) rock for the past few years, you will have noticed the extraordinary rise in the popularity of podcasting (one billion podcast subscriptions was passed way back in 2013). And being the enterprising type, you're ready to wade in and grab the opportunity that podcasting presents with both hands. As a WordPress site owner, you'll be delighted to hear that podcasting and WordPress go hand in hand. To save you the unnecessary hassle and effort that can be involved with integrating podcasts with your WordPress site, we've rounded up seven of the top podcasting plugins out there for you to consider below. By the end of the piece, you're sure to have found a solution to suit your needs. Before we crack on to the list though, let's cover some background on podcasting itself. A Brief Overview of Podcasting Podcasting's history goes back further than blogging itself. Although its roots lie in the 1980s indie radio boom, the modern format become popular in 2004 through platforms such as Odeo. During that time, the iPod was the dominant force in online media consumption. Developers and radio enthusiasts were on the lookout for a way to easily add their programs to the device and Apple's 2005 integration of podcasts in iTunes set the ball rolling in earnest. Since then, podcasts have been created by every conceivable media outlet and organization on earth and opened the door for many individual voices. Some of the most popular podcasts have been entertainment-based. The Ricky Gervais Show, for example, started life as an incredibly popular podcast with roots in traditional radio. Due to its success, the show grew into an HBO series with multiple spinoff shows starring various cast members. Other popular podcasts explore a diverse range of topics with standout examples including This American Life, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Nerdist, and Radiolab. The more technically inclined amongs

"In the previous tutorial I showed you how to style the posts on your main blog page according to their category, creating color coding by category. A lot of sites that use this technique also take it further by adding distinct styling to each section of their site, in a way that co-ordinates with the styling on the main blog page or home page. You can just use a simple color scheme or add completely different styling to each section, maybe with a different logo or branding for different parts of your organisation, or even a different layout. An example is the London Times website, which uses a different color for each section of its site. The front page uses these colors in a banner above each post, as shown in the screenshot:"

"The Wordfence WordPress security plugin provides free enterprise-class WordPress security, protecting your website from hacks and malware. Wordfence starts by checking if your site is already infected. We do a deep server-side scan of your source code comparing it to the Official WordPress repository for core, themes and plugins. Then Wordfence secures your site and makes it up to 50 times faster"

Yukon Blue Magazine Web2.0 Wordpress Theme Template, Very High Quality Design Theme for Wordpress Called Yukon, nice looking Business wordpress theme by iThemes. It has all the simple features you could want making your blog easy to get around making life for your reader much less confusing in finding what they are looking for. Yukon comes with extendable drop down menus, a Picture on the blogs homepage prefect for your businesses Logo, A choice of 8 different colour schemes from Blue, Gray, Green, Pink, Plum, Red, Rust, Turquoise, A Great Business Wordpress Theme for anyone, This work is under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License, This means you may use it and make any changes you like, However, credit links must remain on footer for legal use, This Theme Was Tested and Work Fine On IE 6.0 & 7.0, Mozilla Firefox, Opera 9.02, Google Chrome and Safari Web Broswers, this Theme Was Tested on The Latest Wordpress Version Also.

WordPress offers tons of plugins which confuses the new user. Not just that but there are multiple plugins that serves the same purpose and have the same functions. Which one do you need to get the upper edge, we will cover it in this article. We are only mentioning the plugins that you need to start off your blog, so custom plugins will not be listed in this article, but you may find it being reviewed in our Plugins Category.

Google Web Fonts for WordPress plugin makes it quick and easy to use the Google Web Font Directory from the administration panel within WordPress. It utilizes the Google Web Font API Loader to display fonts that are not installed on the user's computer.

Checkmate 2.0: A Free Premium WordPress Theme The Perfect Building Block for Your Blog Checkmate has been a very popular WordPress theme with thousands of users worldwide. Now it is has been made even better. I've learned a thing or two from the users of Checkmate, listened to the feature requests and I've decided it is time to release Checkmate 2.0. Checkmate 2.0 is built on the original version of Checkmate, but could almost be considered a completely new theme. The interface has gotten a huge and much needed update. The layout is still simple and clean but now is more polished and modern. Customizing the CSS and the look of theme is even better, the entire site was coded with the end user customizing the site in mind.

I have decided to start a new series on this blog: One Way Link Building. It is main design and goal to help you - the blogger take advantage of the options you already have. It is one fact nobody will argue - the more incoming links you have to your site or blog with just the right mix of attributes - the better you will be ranked by Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Article Marketing is one of the best and most affordable ways for one way link building campaign. It combines all the benefits of one way backlinks and cost you nothing more then time involved to write article and the time it will take to submit them to article directories.

Article Marketing is one of the most effective and natural ways to build incoming links to your site or blog and increase authority status. It is also one of the simplest and cost effective as most article directories are free to submit your content to. Problem comes into to play when you attempt to submit to many sites to increase effectiveness of the strategy - Article Marketing Is Time Consuming! Anyone who is done it before (free) knows that I'm right and most of the time I simply go for article distribution services which cost me - but saves time. And time is of essence! If you feel same way - you might want to read this post as I'm about to describe: * How To Build Incoming Links * How To Get Content to Your Blog!

Ever ask yourself a question - Why I Don't Get Much Traffic From Google? This post is not to make an example out of anyone but rather help the person, who commented on my blog and in process I have discovered the issue. It is also designed to help you to ensure you don't have similar problem as it will cost you dearly in terms of Traffic You Will Never Get!

This article can serve as either a primer for the beginning Wordpress Theme Author, or it can serve as a checklist for those of us who have been writing these themes for awhile. Either way, it should be beneficial to the community.

irst session designed to share tips on generating traffic to your blog. No BS info on what I personally use and how you can begin implementing it right now! This might be the ONLY free session I provide, so while registration is optional - I would love to see you and give you podium to ask me questions direct. Ever wanted to ask me - here is your chance, don't loose it.

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When your self hosted wordpress site is getting slow, or lots of cpu quota exceeded errors, how do you fix it? One place you need to look is in your main directory (using c-panel's file manager) - find a file called tmp. Inside it, you'll see several folders, one of them is "slow mysql queries". I used cheap shared hosting like most people (blue host, host gator, etc.). Because of that, you will experience problems - especially if you start getting a lot of traffic. What I'm meaning is 500+ individual visitors per day.

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