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SEO Basics for WordPress

SEO Basics for WordPress This slide presentation explains Search Engine Optimization and how to implement effective SEO in your WordPress website or blog. What is SEO? How do most people find information today? Via online search. In fact, 98% of purchasing decisions are made today by visiting a business website first. The higher you are in search results the more visible you are – so the more likely you are to be found by users on looking for something using search engines. More visibility = more traffic Search Engine Optimization refers to the process of analyzing your website and improving [...]

 by Roohi Moolla on November 29, 2011 · 4 comments

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WordPress Workshop Part 2 – Creating a Basic WordPress site

This is the 2nd WordPress Workshop in an 8-part series on WordPress. This segment explains How to Setup and Install a basic WordPress website/blog. It also looks at the WordPress Dashboard, and some of the basic settings in WordPress. This webinar covers: Welcome – Introduction Review What is WordPress? The Difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com Exporting a Blog from WordPress.com Top features of WordPress How To Use WordPress to build a website Creating a Basic WordPress site Select a Host Install WordPress Requirements Hosting Provider 5-minute install The Dashboard User, Password Permalinks Multiple Authors Posts, Pages Appearance Widgets Media Library [...]

 by Roohi Moolla on November 20, 2011 · 0 comments

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WordPress Workshop – Part 7: Content Is King

This is the 7th WordPress Workshop in an 8-part series on WordPress. The topic is How to Create a Successful Blog with great content – “Content Is King”. This webinar covers: • 3 Keys to a successful Blog • Types of Posts • When to Post • Where to get Blog Ideas • How to Sustain your Blog • How to build your Readership You can watch the video and/or view the slide deck as a PDF. Click here to view as a PDF Click here to see Part 1 – An Introduction to WordPress

 by Roohi Moolla on November 19, 2011 · 0 comments

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44 Excellent Free and For-A-Fee WordPress Themes

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A WordPress theme is simply a type of template that helps give your blog or website a “look and feel” with colors, layout and structure. Some themes have more features, bells and whistles like image sliders, fade-in/fade-out effects and embedded video capability. A theme “sits” on top of the underlying WordPress Content Management framework when you build a blog or website with the WordPress platform, and is usually customizable to some extent so that you can tailor the theme more specifically to your needs. When you choose a theme, you’re committing your site to the design possibilities and the limitations [...]

 by Roohi Moolla on May 22, 2011 · 4 comments

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Top 6 Housekeeping Tasks with Your WordPress Blog/Website

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In a recent post, I walked you through the steps of how to set up a blog/website using WordPress, a very popular Content Management System for building easy-to-manage, “no programming required” websites and blogs. WordPress is a great platform for your website or blog because it’s easy to install, easy to post content, and easy to manage. It also integrates very well with social networks like Facebook and Twitter, and it’s optimized for search engines like Google to leverage keywords and phrases to find, categorize and display your site in searches. Once you’ve set up your WordPress website/blog, there are [...]

 by Roohi Moolla on May 5, 2011 · 1 comment

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How To Setup a WordPress Website/Blog

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This blog post focuses on WordPress, because it’s free, and it’s the easiest way to set up a Website or Blog using a Content Management System (CMS) whether or not you have any technical or programming knowledge. If you want a website you can easily edit and update, simply follow these instructions to setup a WordPress Website/Blog. I’m going to walk through the initial steps of how to setup a website or blog in WordPress, step-by-step. At the end of this post, you’ll have a basic, functioning blog/website that you can start to work with and where you can post [...]

 by Roohi Moolla on April 26, 2011 · 2 comments

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How To Post A Blog: For Beginners

By request, here are the fundamental steps on How To Post A Blog, for those beginning bloggers out there who need just the basics. Follow along with these steps and you’ll be blogging like a pro in no time! Step 1: Find Your Site Go to your WordPress blog site in your favorite browser (Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mac Safari etc.)  e.g. www.yoursite.com/wp-admin Step 2: Login Login with your blog login credentials. If you don’t know your login credentials (username/password), check with your website or blog administrator.

 by Roohi Moolla on March 21, 2011 · 5 comments

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How to Write a Quality Blog Post – Do Links and Tags Matter?

Search engines like Google consider blogs to be of higher value when you have a few links in the blog post to other/external websites, because they consider this type of information to be more useful and informative to a reader. Content that a reader will find useful is of much higher value to a search engine, because it helps to create better results for users who are using the search engine to find results that are relevant to the search terms they enter. For example, if you’ve written a post about local real estate and include a reference to a [...]

 by Roohi Moolla on January 13, 2011 · 2 comments

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Know Thy Plugin: The Top 7 To-Do’s When Installing a Plugin

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Plugins are critical to giving your WordPress website better features and more functionality. A plugin is simply a tool or “microprogram” that extends the functionality of WordPress, a script that is added or installed to your WordPress website that adds a feature not found in the base WordPress platform. Many plugins are free, and are designed by independent developers, but some can be purchased – usually those that are more complex, like online forms or shopping carts. Examples of plugins include reports, search, ratings, statistics, social, image, video, and online shopping plugins – the list is limited only by the imagination of [...]

 by Roohi Moolla on November 14, 2010 · 0 comments

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How To Get Your WordPress Blog Found in Google Search Results

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SEO Basics for WordPress View more presentations from Roohi Moolla. Optimizing your WordPress Blog for Search Engines Getting your WordPress blog or website found by search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing means optimizing your blog using Search Engine Optimization (SEO). In WordPress, it’s fairly simple, but before you begin, you need to understand the basics: What is SEO? Why does SEO matter? How do search engines rank your blog or website? What SEO techniques will improve your ranking?

 by Roohi Moolla on August 24, 2010 · 1 comment

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WordPress Plugin Basics

WordPress Plugin Basics - How-To Install, Find and Choose a Plugin

This video is for those of you who are just stepping into the world of WordPress and want to know how to enhance your blog or website with more features. Plugins for WordPress are powerful little components that can really add some oopmh to your site, and they come in many different flavors. This video is about 12 minutes long, and covers the fundamentals of plugins, including a definition of a plugin, how to find plugins, and how to choose a plugin and decide if it’s an appropriate plugin for what you need to do. You can also click on [...]

 by Roohi Moolla on August 11, 2010 · 0 comments

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