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Choosing a WordPress Theme – Free vs. Paid: Things To Consider

October 23, 2016

Choosing a WordPress theme is one of the most important steps when building your website. Should you go with a free theme or paid?

WordPress is one of the best ways of ensuring you have a great website that is easy to use, customizable, and manageable. With both paid and free options, these websites come in a variety of unique styles, featuring a range of add-ons and plugins that can help make your website better.

Theme Selection

Whether you want to keep it simple and sleek or advanced with many high-end features, you can find the right WordPress theme for you. It just takes some searching.

When setting up your own blog, don’t just pick the one you think is most relevent to your niche. You want to choose a website that will work well with your content and goals for the web page.

The Basics of Customizing Your New Blog

October 5, 2016

Customizing your new blog is the best way to make sure your blog suits your style, market, and goals.

Ensuring your blog looks, feels, and functions properly according to what your goals are will help your site be more successful.

By making the layout and design complement your market and objectives, you will create a searchable, accessible, and enjoyable website

Ultimately, by tailoring your blog you’ll make it truly yours.

37 Experts Reveal Their Biggest Blogging Mistakes (So You Don’t Make Them!)

July 16, 2016

Do you ever get the feeling that some bloggers must have been born as skilled writers?

The apparent ease at which their content just flows from their fingers to the screen, the irresistible sales funnels, their slick sign up forms and their laid back tone fills you with envy.

In short you wonder how you’ll ever become that awesome?

Well panic not because there’s a way!

The truth is that most of our 21^st century blogging superheroes were mere literary mortals once too, each experiencing familiar frustrations as they tried to join the blogging dots.

It’s a fact that to develop their blogging superpowers, making mistakes and failing miserably were vital. Successfully navigating the precarious path to blogging fame and fortune means biting the dust more than once – as you’ll see.

If you’re a novice blogger or just starting a blog then you’re going to want to strap in.

The following post lifts the lid on the basic – but also the critical – blogging blunders that even the most engaging and entertaining bloggers have made.

3 Ways To Get Over Your Fear Of Blogging

June 28, 2016

Starting a blog can be difficult. The constant fear of what if’s can deter you from taking a chance.

What if I’m not good enough at blogging? What if nobody reads my blog? What if people read my blog, but don’t like what I have to say? That wondering can go on forever if you let it.

It’s easy to tell a person to just go for what they want, but actually doing it yourself is much more difficult.

It’s important to know that when it comes to blogging, there is no single formula that everyone can follow in order to be successful.

The Top 5 Things You Need To Know Before Starting A Blog

June 13, 2016

Starting a blog is a great way to showcase your talent and interests, while learning about a topic you’re passionate about.

Whether people are tired of you continuously talking about something they don’t understand, or you just want to write about a subject that excites you, a blog is the perfect way to do that.

However, it’s not enough to throw a lot of content on a page and call it a blog. If you’re serious about becoming a successful blogger, there are a few things you need to understand.

101 Blog Post Ideas to Kick-Start Your Content Calendar

March 4, 2016

Did you know that approximately 56.0 million new posts are published on WordPress every month and approximately 409 million people are reading blogs published on WordPress and that number is growing every day.

These numbers are staggering but they don’t even take into account all the Self-hosted WordPress statistics which would double or even triple that number.

If you don’t have a WordPress blog yet and you want to learn how to start a blog then head over to my Home page for step-by-step instructions.

Before you get started blogging it’s important to choose a quality web hosting provider luckily for you I have put together a very comprehensive review of the top places to host your new blog. Now that you have solid platform for you blog you can move on to the more exciting stuff.

Every new blog post begins with a single idea, and it can be tough to keep a stream of topics flowing to fill up your content calendar.

Not only is it tough to constantly come up with ideas, but coming up with good blog topic ideas that keep readers engaged is another challenge in itself.

If you need a few blog post ideas to get your content calendar off of the ground, today is your lucky day.

How to Fine Tune Your Blog For Ultimate Reader Engagement

February 26, 2016

You’ve set up your blog, written several posts, and started to gain some followers.

The same three or four people seem to read everything you write and a few even comment or share your posts. It’s a great start, but you’re frustrated because you want more attention for your blog.

This attention – often called reader engagement – is exactly what most bloggers are yearning for.

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The Most Common Mistakes That Beginners Make With WordPress

February 9, 2016

Let’s face it: you’re going to make some mistakes when you’re just getting started making a blog with WordPress.

From not installing the proper forms to using the wrong platform, it’s easy to take a misstep here and there.

Fortunately, most of these mistakes aren’t fatal and your blog or website can recover nicely from them as soon as you learn to avoid them in the future.

For now, though, being familiar with the most common mistakes beginners make with WordPress can help you steer clear and get your blogging career off on the right foot.

Here’s what you need to know:

No Time? No Money? No Problem!

February 4, 2016

So you’re wondering how you should start a blog, but you don’t have a bunch of money to spend on domain names and hosting. Startign a free blog is easy.

Would you believe me if I told you that wasn’t an obstacle?

One of the best things about blogging is that it’s totally free to start, and while you can spend a ton of money on everything from a custom domain name to a special website theme, you certainly don’t have to (In this article I’ll also show you how to get both for under $5 a month so keep reading).

But for now here’s what you need to know to start a blog with no money down.

Theme Selection

No matter how great your blog and its associated content are, it’s tough to get anyone to read it without the proper promotion plan.