This video tutorial will show you how to use the LinkedIn Share button to share content and increase your website/blog traffic. This WordPress plugin allows your visitors to share your blog post to their LinkedIn profile and even groups, which may feature thousands of members.
How to Change Dirty URL into Clean SEO Friendly URL
February 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Optimizing your blog for the search engine is crucial for improving your search engine ranking and helping Google tells what your pages are about. By default, WordPress’ URLs uses question marks and numeric characters, which I call “Dirty URLs”. Dirty URLs can prohibits awareness of your website and content.
What Are Dirty URLs?
While websurfing, I have noticed some dirty urls that should be avoided.
Here are a few examples:
http://mywebiste.com/?p=46
or http://mywebsite.com/pl?id=4&view=basic
“Dirty url” is known to confuse the heck out of the search spiders. If you have a look at the above url, would you ever recall the link off the top of your head and/or determine the keywords pertaining to the post? Probably, not!
Spiders, also known as crawlers, follow and crawls links throughout the internet, seeking contents and adding them into the search engine indexes. The more confusing links to your site, the less likely the search spider will crawl and index all of your pages.
Making a Dirty URL Clean and SEO Friendly
Fortunately, Word press provides options to customize your website url structure to improve search engine ranking and sharing compatibility.
Here’s is quick solution:
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Login your WP Dashboard
How To Change Your WordPress Header Image
February 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
We are online to be different and to show originality. This would mean the appearance of your WordPress blog. Millions of bloggers use WordPress templates repetitively. Therefore, your header image will look the same as someone else. To differentiate you from others, you should have a customized header image. Ok, you may not be graphic designers or web programmers, but having a customized header for your blog will add personality and creativity so you can impress your visitors. So, view the video so you can change your header image in less than three minutes.
How To Install WordPress Plugins
February 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
When I first started blogging with WordPress, installing plugins was daunting. I had to download the plugins, login to my GoDaddy account and upload the plugins to the FTP server. It was too much work. Now you can search and install plugins right from your WordPress Dashboard in less than 3 minutes. Feel free to watch the video or see instructions below.
Happy Blogging!
Step 1: Log into your WP account.
Step 2: Under Plugins scroll down to Add New
Step 3: Under Search, type in the plugins by name, author or tags
10 Hot Tips for Bloggers
January 7, 2010 By 1 Comment
I have been blogging for about two years now. I had made some mistakes but have learned a whole lot. My blog is a reflection of who I am as a person, a teaching forum for others and a platform to have fun with technology. There are thousands of blogging tips and hundreds of plugins that can help you become more effective and to increase readership. Therefore, given my 24 months of blogging I will now share some tips that helped lead to my success.
1. Use WordPress. There are tons of blogging platforms, from Blogger to TypePad, but no other platform stands out from the rest like WordPress. WordPress has so many features and plugins that will enhance the look and style of your blog and it makes posting content so easy that it can be done by web, email and even from your iPhone or BlackBerry.
How To Set-Up RSS Feed in WordPress
November 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
This will be a 2-Part video tutorial. Part I, is a quick tutorial on setting up your own RSS feed url address from Feedburner.com. This step will allow you to publicize your blog, audio or video content. Part 2 is placing your live RSS feed address in a WordPress blog or web site. This second step will allow your visitors to subscribe to your blog. Ready?
Good luck and happy learning!
