Question from Freida: I have a simple question about setting up a blog with WordPress.
If you could only use ONE plugin on your blog for some reason, which one plugin would that be?
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Question from Freida: I have a simple question about setting up a blog with WordPress.
If you could only use ONE plugin on your blog for some reason, which one plugin would that be?
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Have you been thinking about starting a blog?
Do you already have a blog but you’re having a hard time getting people to visit it?
The truth is most anyone can start a blog these days, but attracting visitors who like your posts and want to come back to read your latest stuff on a regular basis isn’t easy.
That being said, starting your own blog and writing posts that are interesting and useful to your readers can be done if you follow a good plan. [Read more…]
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Question from Kendell: Hi, Rick. I’m hoping you can recommend a good web hosting plan for my blog.
I’ve had my blog for almost four years and it’s grown to the point where I’m having trouble keeping up with all the maintenance (updates, backups, etc.).
It seems like I’m spending so much time keeping the blog running that I don’t have time to write my posts anymore.
I’ve heard about the Managed WordPress hosting providers that take care of all the updates and other maintenance tasks for you and I’d really love to move my blog to one of them. [Read more…]
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Many new bloggers take a look at their blog’s traffic stats and become confused while viewing the stats for “Hits”, “Page Views” and “Visits”.
Even worse, they often become more confused when they see other bloggers/webmasters bragging about how many “hits” their sites receive every month.
If you find all of this traffic terminology confusing as well, I’ll try to clear it all up for you with this post. [Read more…]
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Question from Rita: I have a question about WordPress is you don’t mind.
My daughter helped me set up a blog and I’m just now beginning to get the hang of things. I have a question though.
I see on other blogs where they have long posts split up into multiples pages with a link at the bottom to click to go to the next page. I’d like to do that on some of my own posts because they tend to be pretty long.
How do I split my posts up like that? [Read more…]