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jQuery allows for impressive animations and interactions that are easily created and utilized in your WordPress blog. If used wisely, these plugins can enhance your blog by making it far easier for your readership to read your words of genius, and participate in your blog.
This articles details some of the better plugins that utilize jQuery. [Read more...]
Further to our post on enhancing your WordPress blog through social networking, we have realised that this the flip side to that is, WordPress plugins to help your commenter’s’ spread the word about their social network sites. Any help you give them helps you, as they get a chance to have their say and tell the world about what they do, by directing traffic to their social network profiles, and in the process you get to make your pitch as well. Here are some useful plugins you can use to help that process. [Read more...]
Whether you blog for a living, or because you believe you have something worthy to say, it is worth baring in mind that by the best way to increase revenue from your blog, or just bring your message to a wider audience, is to drive traffic to it. The following tips to attract traffic to your WordPress blog, should help you to achieve your objectives, whatever they maybe, when it comes to your blog.
Try and write blogs that are interesting, and relevant. Unless you have a gimmick or have managed to find a niche market, you will need quality content, that reaches out to your readership.
A good layout is on that makes the blogs easy to read, not too ad ridden, and has good navigation. Though it is the quality of your blogs that will determine long term readership, the layout provides the environment for your reader, so the better the layout, the better the environment. [Read more...]
WordPress is one of the most seo friendly publishing systems today, but to get the best results you still need to tinker with it a little bit!
So let’s see what steps you need to take to modify WordPress so it will turn into a true seo CMS:
1. Permalinks structure: the default structure is no good at all – although search engines have no problem in indexing pages that have urls with variables, it’s very clear that they prefer clean urls.
The best results I have seen are when permalinks structure is set to “%postname%”, and only that. This is something to keep in mind for any site you build, WordPress or any other CMS.
2. Related posts plugin : this is good for both your visitors and the search engines. It automatically finds related posts and displays them in a list – very useful when visitors arrive on a page looking for something and they get more info on the same subject. [Read more...]
