Whether you’re entirely new to WordPress.org or you’ve been using the platform for a while now, there’s always more to learn. We’ll be running a new series on Frequently Asked Questions, from the most basic to the more advanced. Be sure to comment at the bottom of this post with your own questions, queries and brain-teasers.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the value of accepting guest posts on your blog. I wanted to follow that up with a post about the value of submitting guest posts, and being featured as a guest blogger on other sites.
First of all, forget about link building. Despite what many people will fall over themselves to tell you, guest blogging really isn’t about link building. Sure, it’s nice to leave a little trail of virtual breadcrumbs so more people can find your blog – and links on relevant, quality sites are good for SEO – but the real value in guest blogging is in building relationships with new readers.
If you have a new WordPress project on the horizon and you’d like to employ the expertise of a professional to develop your site, creating a good brief to guide the process is essential.
It can also be easier said than done if you’d never had to brief a developer or designer on a project previously. Feeling stuck? Wondering which aspects are important and which will be worked out during the dev process?
I spoke to Daniel Hay from The Fold and WordPress developer Justin Soong to find out what they like to see in a brief for a new project.
You have to read well to write well, and blogging is no exception. If you’re maintaining a business blog, hobby-blogging or looking to turn your passion for writing into a fulltime online career, it’s important to not to write in a vacuum – and that means reading a lot of great blog posts from a wide variety of writers to expose yourself to different styles and perspectives.
Becoming a devoted blog reader will crack open and enhance your blog writing skills in ways you may have never considered. So who do you read? And which blogs should you bookmark?
If you needed any further proof that WordPress is the most popular blogging platform among the blogosphere’s biggest and brightest, here it is.
According to website monitoring leader Royal Pingdom, “WordPress is strengthening its position as the dominating blogging platform or Content Management System (CMS) used by the world’s top 100 blogs”. Pretty impressive stuff for a humble, open-source platform which is only now on the brink of its 10th anniversary, right?
Tired of tweeting? Suffering Facebook fatigue and Insta-exhaustion? Exciting new social networks and platforms are popping up across the web all the time, offering us tons of innovative and awe-inspiring ways to connect, share and communicate.
Here are five of the most intriguing and creative up-and-coming social sharing tools and networks you’ll want to check out for yourself.
Are you in the initial stages of finding a WordPress developer to whip your website into shape? Selecting the right person for the job isn’t always easy. Different developers offer different strengths, some specialise in websites for particular industries, and not all web developers have the same level of experience developing for the WordPress platform.
So you’re just starting out or you’re rebranding your business and you need a new logo. Come to think of it, you’ll also need a fresh web banner, new business cards, an overhaul of your brochure, letterheads and media kits… and maybe even a custom website or blog theme.
Feeling your business budget shrinking already? Before you throw in the towel altogether – or even worse, haphazardly try and knock together some design in Paint – there are a number of affordable design options available for small and big businesses alike.
Can you believe it’s been almost 10 years since WordPress was first released? No foolin’. The 10th anniversary of the platform’s launch is May 27, and WordPress enthusiasts and aficionados all around the world are planning Meetup celebrations, and paying homage to the evolution of WP on their blogs and websites.
As careful as you may be to keep your website or blog up to date and free from dreaded 404 pages and links that go nowhere, it’s fairly safe to say that almost all websites have dead or broken links somewhere.
Mistakes happen, file names change, content changes – not to mention the minefield that is external links, over which you have no control. You might be super careful not to change anything that might jeopardise the existing links on your site, but if you link to an external web page where readers can find more information – and that web page is then taken down for whatever reason – you’ll end up with a dead link on your site.
