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Review: TrafficSwarm blog traffic generation service

Posted on March 22, 2019

As a blogger, I know how important it is to have lots of people visiting your website.

After all, a site that no one ever visits is pretty much useless, especially if you hope to make money with it.

If your website is new you’ve probably spent some time searching Google for ways to increase the number of visitors you have coming to it on a daily basis. And if that’s the case, chances are you’ve come across a service called TrafficSwarm.

In this post I will explain how TrafficSwarm works and give you my honest opinion about whether you should use it or not. [Read more…]

Does your blog take too long to load? Here’s how to find out right now.

Posted on March 19, 2019

Now that Google and other major search engines are taking page load times into consideration when ranking web pages in their search results, it’s more important than ever to make sure your blog pages load as quickly as possible.

There are a number of factors that affect how quickly a web page will load, but figuring out how to make the changes necessary to speed up a blog can be difficult in some cases. [Read more…]

Q&A: Can you recommend a good, but affordable microphone for recording my podcasts?

Posted on March 18, 2019

Question from Felicia: I have a blog that I’ve been posting on three times a week since November 2015.

I’m really happy with the success I’m having with it and now I want to try my hand at podcasting to supplement the blog posts.

Can you recommend a good podcast-quality microphone that’s affordable?

I’m hoping to spend $100 or less but I’m willing to spend a little more than that if I have to in order to get a decent mic that’ll last for a good while.

Rick’s answer: [Read more…]

Q&A: Which VaultPress subscription do you recommend to backup my WordPress blog?

Posted on March 14, 2019

Question from James A.: I read your post about why you use VaultPress to back up your blogs and I’d like to give it a try.

I usually publish from 3 to 5 new posts every day, and my posts tend to be pretty in-depth. That means recreating them if they were to get lost would be both difficult and time-consuming.

As I understand it if I choose the cheapest plan then my blog would only be backed up once each day. What concerns me is losing any posts that were published since the last backup was created.

My question is which of their three subscription options should I choose? I don’t want to over-pay but I definitely want to protect my hard work.

Rick’s answer: [Read more…]

Q&A: How can I hide a category from the home page on my WordPress blog?

Posted on February 28, 2019

Question from Melanie S.: Hi Rick. I’m hoping you can answer a question I have about my WordPress blog.

Is there any way to hide a category from the home page?

In other words I want to keep the posts in this one specific category from showing up on the main page of my blog.

I’ve searched the settings pages from top to bottom and I can’t find a setting to hide a category from the home page. If there is one can you tell me how to find it?

Rick’s answer: [Read more…]