For today’s tip I will be directing you to the most accurate guide on how to make your websites search engine friendly and rank well in search engine results pages, which is the Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide. This PDF is a MUST READ for new and seasoned web publishers and developers and provides all the necessary information required to begin to master Search Engine Optimization. Forget about what everyone else has to say about SEO for a little while and download and start reading the guide from the team at Google.
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10 Useful Tips for a Faster Broadband Connection
This is a guest post by Kip from Broadband Compare.
A fast, efficient broadband connection is becoming increasingly important every day. Whether you use your computer for business, entertainment or a combination of the two, you need and deserve a high speed internet connection in return for your hard earned dollar. An internet service provider, or ISP, is only a provider. It is for that reason that preparing the computing space, whether it be a home or business, is the sole responsibility of the individual.
The truth is that there is a wide range of problems within your own home that could be wreaking havoc on your broadband connection. Luckily we have devised a list of 10 steps that can have you on your way to the blazing fast internet connection that you pay for in minutes.
How To Effectively Write Convincing Articles That Actually Make Money
This is a guest post by CJ of Affiliate Groundz who is an Affiliate Marketer and Blogger. Learn more about his online money making journey at his blog.
Now, like most people, you probably still write your articles the wrong way and make no sales from your efforts. Sounds like you? Yeah, I already know it does. Because if you were already making as much money as you wanted, you wouldn’t be reading this. So what’s the difference between an article that makes money and an article that doesn’t?
7 Major Elements To Consider Before Choosing Your Blog’s Theme
One of the first things you should do when launching your blog is decide upon a theme that is perfectly suited for your style and goals. For me, this decision making process took about 3 weeks before I finally chose a theme that I felt comfortable with and it took that long because I just did not want to leave any stones unturned.
Having been in web development and on the blogging scene for a while, I’ve come across the good, bad and ugly in WordPress theme development and design; and have seen many bloggers spend money on themes they grow to regret.
Here are 7 very important factors that you need to consider before spending the cash or start getting attached to a theme that ends up being a complete waste of time.
How To Choose The Best Permalink Structure For Your WordPress Blog
One of the simplest and most effective Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques you could implement when launching your WordPress blog is setting the correct ‘pretty’ permalink structure for your site. Pretty permalinks are very important to help your blog’s content to be more understandable and accessible by both your visitors and search engines than URLs that are dynamically created by PHP that end up with something like this: www.yourdomain.com/?p=1
Below, I will show you the best permalink structure to use for SEO and how to do it.
How To Create A Custom Front Page In WordPress
WordPress is undeniably one of the most robust and user friendly blogging and content management systems on the web. Although when many persons think of WordPress, they limit this amazing free open source software to blogging, while not realizing that this system is used by lots of top online companies around the world to provide news and other types of products and services. Top names such as CNN, BBC, Flickr and Time. So as bloggers, we don’t need to limit ourselves to the simple blog layout since WordPress provides quite a few options for further customization.
So today, I’ll show you how to create your own custom front page that can serve your visitors as a sales page, introductory page or just about anything you wish.
How to Build an E-Commerce WordPress Site in 5 Minutes
Here’s a quick video tutorial showing you how to add E-Commerce capabilities to your WordPress blog through a free plugin: WP E-Commerce. The basic solution is very easy and allows you to add an almost unlimited amount of products and connects you with the most popular payment gateways.
In this video, Adam Purcell from Hungry Dog Media demonstrates how easy the plugin setup is and does it in under 5 minutes.
10 Things that Unnecessarily Complicates Your Blog
This is a guest post by Tom Walker who is a blogger and designer from a specialist provider of cartridges next day and print media supplies. If you are interested in guest posting on Sam’s Web Guide, please visit our guest post guidelines page here.
Failure to monitor your blog can result in the advent of non-standards compliant code that not only gives your blog a cluttered look, but sometimes causes your blog’s pages to load improperly or not at all. With all the modern emphasis on productivity comes an equally important emphasis on simplicity and order on the Web. A successful blog needs to be useful and visually appealing which means that to keep yours on the radar, you’re going to have to clean it up a bit. Here are some steps you can take to keep your blog simple, clean and in tip-top shape.
Secure Your WordPress Blog Against Malicious URL Requests
As I continue the series of techniques to secure and protect your WordPress blog, today I will be showing you how to protect your WordPress installation specifically against Malicious URL Requests that inject code to exploit your theme’s files and MySQL database.
If you missed my previous security articles, you may view: 5 Extreme Steps to Secure Your WordPress Blog and 10 Simple Steps to Secure & Protect your WordPress Blog.
5 Additional Extreme Steps to Secure Your WordPress Blog
You can never be too prepared when it comes to internet security, so I have posted a continuation of my previous post, 10 Simple Steps to Secure & Protect your WordPress Blog, with an additional 5 tips to make it 10 times more difficult for your WordPress site to be compromised by hackers.
Here are 5 additional tips and practices to ensure that your investment of time, energy and money in your blog never goes to waste.
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