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In this post, SEO enthusiast Aisha Preece explains exactly what SEO is and how you can use it to drive thousands of visitors to your blog. [Read more…]
Question from Melvin: I have a “health and wellness” blog that I’ve been writing for over four years now. It runs on WordPress.
I write several new posts each week and the blog now has over a thousand posts on it.
About a month ago I paid a guy to make some updates to the blog to make it more attractive and add a couple of new features that I’d seen on other blogs.
With my permission he ended up changing the blog to a new theme (Divi). Now I have a big problem that I hope you can help me with.
There’s a strong consensus among those in the blogging world that WordPress is hands-down the best blogging platform out there.
It’s ease of use, amazing flexibility and natural friendliness towards search engines makes using WordPress a true no-brainer in my opinion.
But that being said, it’s extremely easy to build a WordPress site that’s cumbersome to use, irritatingly slow to load and inherently insecure if one just throws a bunch of “pieces” together to create their blog.
And as you might imagine a slow loading and insecure blog tends to drive away visitors in droves, keep your pages from ranking well in the search engines and make your blog susceptible to hackers.
On the other hand, it’s actually pretty easy to build and maintain a WordPress blog that loads very quickly and is (more or less) immune to hacking attacks if you know how to go about it. Here are a few tips that can help… [Read more…]
If you’re a blogger you surely know how important it is for your blog posts to rank well in Google.
After all, traffic is the engine that drives all success in blogging, and there’s simply no better source of traffic than Google’s organic search results.
Are you a blogger who uses WordPress to power your blog?
If so, you should know that it’s now more important than ever for your blog to be mobile friendly if you want to attract visitors to it and keep them there after they arrive.