One of the most important aspect in the design of a blog is readability, how easy it is to read your content. People come to your blog to read articles, and if they are easier to read, the better. A design that obscures the content just scare your visitors. So what can we do to increase the readability, and keep those readers reading? 30 things you can do to increase readability of your … [Read more...]
Wordpress and SEO
Latest news, plugins, themes, blogs and SEO about Wordpress platform and Website designing as a whole.
How easy and how much one can make money from a blog or forum?
Not at first, but after a certain time. This is the power to earn money online. You have to work really hard on the blog at first, after a while, you can make money without doing virtually anything. We do not care anyway because we enjoy adding content for now. If you want to make money online, we would suggest to choose a more profitable topic , a different niche blogging (may be due to the … [Read more...]
8 secrets to successful SEO
How does a person succeeds with a website in the world full of SEO experts? Here are some points that can give you the lead to the answer. Here are the secrets for successful SEO and thereby better SERP. Passion The Internet is full of successful bloggers whose passion for SEO is incredible. They spent thousands of dollars from own pocket to help and protect the website. How does your passion … [Read more...]
How to show tooltip for non hyperlink text in WordPress
Sometimes it might be important to show tooltip on non hyperlink texts in Wordpress posts. For example, you want to show more information on a certain word or term; but do not want to give a hyperlink to other website in order to limit outgoing link or reduce bounce rate. Actually the HTML function exists for showing full term of short abbreviations. That is why, it is named abbr title ; as you … [Read more...]
Best statistics plugins for WordPress
One reason for which many blog fails including professional blogs, business blogs etc. is that they have not dealt with their own figures and statistics. In the case of blogs so you should know who is on your own blog, which is especially popular and what is not, etc. Only those who know such things, can counteract and take appropriate action. In this article we will present the best statistics … [Read more...]
Making your WordPress website W3C validated
Previously, we discussed the importance of W3C validation and SEO and shown examples of our websites of both errors, validated and errors which can be corrected. This time we will discuss on making your Wordpress website W3C validated; well you might end up with 12 errors; but it is much better than your 80 error for sure. To comply with W3C standards for your Wordpress website, you must take … [Read more...]
Importance of W3C validation and SEO of your website
Though this article on importance of W3C validation is written here for Wordpress users, the basic things will be same for Blogger, Joomla, BBPress, phpBB, DotNuke etc platform users. A site is not good if it is not W3C validated? It is very rare to find on Internet that Web sites those are 100% valid (about 5% of websites indexed on Google pass W3C validator). Always maintaining … [Read more...]
14 SEO mistakes you should avoid in your own blog
Without search engine optimization (SEO) it is hardly for a blog, whether new or old to do much in Google. We are not talking about some questionable methods, but optimizations, even search engines like Google suggests so. But again and again optimization errors are made which ensure that it is just not up on Google or go down from day one. Below you will find 14 SEO mistakes you should avoid for … [Read more...]
Highlight text in WordPress post with css rounded border effect
This is actually the continuation of our previous article Highlight, add pressed effects to certain words in your WordPress blog. We advice you to read that article first to understand what is we are going to do. In previous article, we made certain text highlighted but there was no border of the highlights. Today, we will do two things: we will add a border with specific color and size as per … [Read more...]
Basic guide on choosing web hosting for successful WordPress blog
Before we start over with the first installation of Wordpress we need a web space. Now of course is a requirement that it should not be too expensive and server uptime is over 99% with a decent speed. You are just starting this blog project and it is not sure if it ever really end on a success. Therefore, there should be a good quality and expenditure balance. Also it does matter if the costs … [Read more...]
6 Tips and 7 errors to avoid to get traffic from comment on others blog
Comments on other blogs are very interesting for three main reasons: First, they play an important role for Google. The more back links a blog has, therefore, the more often by other sites, blogs, etc. is linked, the more important this blog appear in Google's eye. Of course, the quality of backlinks important and the ranking still play a lot of other things a major role. More or less, major SEO … [Read more...]