Welcome to Gaia! :: View User's Journal | Gaia Journals

 
 

View User's Journal

Report This Entry Subscribe to this Journal
cowardlyleash6003 Journal cowardlyleash6003 Personal Journal


cowardlyleash6003
Community Member
avatar
0 comments
In Regards To Wordpress, We Have The Best Tips
WordPress is the most popular blogging website for a reason. The program is easy to use and provides so many options for making your blog stand out and look just the way you want it to. However, you need to know how to use the site to get the most from your experience. Follow the simple tips below to make WordPress work for you.

Remember to clean up permalinks. Excessively long titles make for cumbersome, clumsy URLs. Be sure to select only the keywords from your long titles to create your permalinks.

Make the most of your titles and your descriptions. Any time you share posts on social media sites a description and title may be required. These are important in terms of good search engine optimization, so don't just toss out titles and descriptions in a random fashion. Give it some thought and optimize with good keywords.

Allow all of the users that visit your site the ability to comment using Facebook. This is a very important tool that will get your name across to hundreds of thousands of people. The Simple Facebook Connect plugin can be used if you want to install this feature on your site.

One reason WordPress is so great to work with is that its plug-ins offer a dazzling array of functions. Be that as it may, you want to be careful when selecting plug-ins. Don't just start downloading them willy-nilly. Begin with the essential plug-ins: WP DataBase BackUp, All-In-One SEO Pack and WP Optimize. Choose others with care to get precisely what you need.

Create a members only section to your website to make it more exclusive to the people who visit your site on a daily basis. This will allow them to actively engage in discussions with other members who have the same level of intensity. This will develop a solid bond between your top visitors.

Connect your posts by utilizing internal linking plugins. This provides your readers with additional content to peruse while visiting your site. This type of plugin adds 3-5 links beneath your posts based on their tags' relevancy.

If you don't like your theme, change it! There are thousands of free themes available online which allow you to quickly and easily change the look of your site without having to know much about HTML coding. Be sure to choose themes from reputable sites to ensure they don't affect the security of your software.

Know that you can write posts and send them in the future via WordPress. All you need to do is change the post from "Publish Immediately" to a specific date and time in the future. This way you can write posts and have them set up to go out even while you are on vacation!

User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.

Make sure descriptions and titles are targeted. These details are often seen first by users who may be using a search engine to find blogs like yours. That also makes them the most important. In order to customize them to your needs, Scribe, which is SEO software, can help. You can get more visitors by editing these things.

Your WordPress is nothing without plugins, and lucky for you, there are plenty to choose from. However, it is very important that you use caution when installing plugins and keep in mind that they aren't disposable. You can uninstall them, but most of the time they will still affect your content and leave shortcodes behind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIxp_SR9tE4

Try to manage your comments. No one wants to look at spam. Don't let the spam in your blog's comment sections get out of hand. Try to eliminate spam entirely or, at least, keep it to a minimum. Install a plugin that can cut down on spam. Delete any spam that slips through in your comments.

User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.

Use the Easy Tweet Embed program to create links for readers to tweet the content of your posts to their followers. It does the work of creating the tweet content for you, so you don't have to manually create it every time you draft a post, saving you a ton of time.

If your imagery on your WordPress website is rather bulky and slowing your site down, try using WP Smush.It. It basically compresses all of those images down to much easier sizes for browsers to deal with. It can speed up your website quite a bit. The best part is, it can run in the background once you have it installed. So new images are always smushed!

You don't have to use the standard dro-down menu when choosing a header. Try using hotkeys. To use, simply use CTRL and the numbers 1 through 6. This shortcut http://slashdot.org/submission/4007329/when-you-want-to-find-a-sussex-based-seo-company you are planning to begin blogging yourself, you owe it to yourself to take a close look at what Wordpress can do for you, provided you understand how to use it well. The information above ought to have given you a great start.




 
 
Manage Your Items
Other Stuff
Get GCash
Offers
Get Items
More Items
Where Everyone Hangs Out
Other Community Areas
Virtual Spaces
Fun Stuff
Gaia's Games
Mini-Games
Play with GCash
Play with Platinum