Knowing how to increase blog traffic is an essential skill, not only for professional bloggers but for anybody who wants to attract the maximum number of visitors to their blog. This complete blog traffic guide will help you to achieve that. Running a successful blog takes a lot of hard work, passion and commitment. However, it also requires a great deal of knowledge. It can take …
Google Alerts: How to use Google Alerts in Blogging
Google Alerts is a marvelous tool to use when you are seeking information on specific keywords. Knowing how to use Google Alerts in blogging is essential if you want to remain competitive, whether you are a professional blogger or use a website to provide a service or a product. Why? Because keeping up with new information is critical in any business! Google Alerts detects changes in …
Cheap WordPress Hosting Options for Bloggers
When you are offered cheap web hosting make sure you understand why it is cheap! Most web hosting services advertise a cheap monthly cost, but this usually involves an advance payment for 12, 24 or even 36 months of hosting. If you are looking for cheap hosting, you might be short of cash until you get your blog going. So what makes these hosting companies think you can afford almost …
How to Speed Up WordPress Site: Complete Guide
It’s important to know how to speed up WordPress site for two main reasons. The first is to prevent your visitors from leaving too soon due to long load-up times, and the second is that this is one of Google’s ranking factors. The loading speed of any website, whether a blog or a regular site, can be a critical factor in your success - or your failure. Many know that WordPress is an …
Free WordPress Themes for Your Blog
Are you looking for some awesome free WordPress themes? Well, you've reached the right place to find them! There is a huge choice of WordPress themes available for WordPress blogs and websites, and it is often difficult to choose one to suit you. Many are free, but that does not mean that they are of low quality – on the contrary. Many of the best WordPress themes in use today are …
How to Use SEMrush: Competitor Analysis Made Easy
Knowing how to use SEMrush correctly can make competitor analysis very easy. This SEMrush Review focuses on how to use the tool to analyze what your competitors are doing to get their web pages indexed and listed on the Google search engine results pages. If you want to be successful with online business or professional blogging it is very important, probably even critically important, …
Squirrly Review: Review of the Squirrly SEO Plugin for Bloggers
This Squirrly review explains the benefits of the Squirrly SEO plugin and why many use it rather than Yoast or the WordPress SEO Ultimate plugin. This is not a comparison, but simply explains the features and benefits of Squirrly. You can decide which is best for you! So let’s start by answering the question that many ask when they hear about this SEO plugin for the first time: “What is …
Heat maps: Using Heat Mapping to Improve Your Conversions
Heat maps are images of your web page or blog post that display where visitors have clicked or hovered on the page. They can show you the links and images that have interested people most, and also those areas of your page where they have shown little or no interest. Using heat maps to improve your conversions is as important to you as the design of the entire page itself. Google …
Genesis – A WordPress Theme Framework by StudioPress
The Genesis framework has been developed by the StudioPress subsidiary of Copyblogger, and knowing the success of the latter, it was certainly worth looking at. It was immediately apparent that this WordPress theme is a great choice for those that simply want to start blogging with the minimum of fuss, and what's more you have a choice of dozens of child themes that offer a high degree …
Blogging Tips The Importance of List Building to Bloggers
Of all the blogging tips a professional blogger might read, the importance of list building is one that should be heeded. You might think that any visitor to your blog will automatically return for more, but that is not the case. Most statistics published online show that only around 15% - 20% of traffic to a blog comprises returning visitors. What this means is that of every 100 …