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Do you need one for your website ? Can you become one ? I am website content writer, to some extent, since what you’re reading right now is web content. One might wonder what the difference is between a web writer and a print writer, since , well , they both write! They do topics they’re give, they both do research, they both strive to be interesting and provide the reader with the information they need. How come is there a difference? Well , the difference between the web content writer and the print writer comes with the difference in ... Read More »

Google makes us learn the hard way Anyone in the SEO business felt as if they were struck by a lightning in late April 2012, when Google introduced their Penguin update. The Penguin update altered the way the algorithm for ranking pages worked, as well as the detection of pages which were fraudulently over-optimized, according to Google. After months and months of SEO campaigns, many saw their website’s positions skyrocketing down to unimaginable oblivion, and people soon began to discuss taking countermeasures and doing damage control. To learn how to do exactly that, we have prepared this article. In its ... Read More »

Proven Ways To Get More Comments On Your Blog : Getting your visitors’ opinions : Blogs are not newspapers, you would always want to get feedback from your visitors about your content. This feedback will give you a clue as to how well you’re doing in your blog, and will make it more desirable. Everybody likes to share their opinion, and they feel more valued when they do so. But sometimes, your visitors will need a little push to start commenting. In this article , we’ll discuss what you can do to get more blog comments. Through practice, many of ... Read More »

Top 5 Successful Twitter Marketing Strategies : Unleashing the Avalanche of Retweets : No one can dare to dispute the enormous effects “going viral” would have for the traffic and reputation of your site. Sometimes one such event can generate the traffic months of regular updates and careful content picking couldn’t. But that’s why many of us feel incredibly lucky when we “hit the mother load” – it doesn’t happen as often as we’d wish it did. End even though there isn’t a fixed formula for it, there are some things that have empirically shown to be successful in getting ... Read More »

Change WordPress Username - For those who are unsatisfied with their original choice : The reasons could be many and different, but actually have no reflection on how you can change your username. Most of the times it’s easy to do, and requires nothing more than the original WordPress functionality. But there might be some complications if you change your username, and we’ll try to discuss them too, in the lines below. First, we need to make some clarifications, in order to continue with this tutorial. WordPress offers two “types” of username – a display name , by which you appear ... Read More »

Penalties are the nightmare of webmasters If you’ve suffered a sudden drop in traffic recently, it is very likely that you were the victim of a Google penalty. Google penalties happen when you overdo a certain part of your optimization efforts, or unwillingly do certain things that lead to Google penalizing your site for malicious content, by their definition. Of course, it’s treatable – but it will take your site a lot of time and hard work on damage control to recover from penalties. You must always keep eye on latest Google updates. As with any eventually occurring problem, the situation ... Read More »

Learning from the Best and using Your own shortened URL : The Twitter social network has had such a great impact on the web, with its 140 character limit, that many URL shortening tools were created. As users, we can use any URL shortening tool, like ow.ly for example, but it wouldn’t look very professional. So some people have started taking the steps of the big websites in the industry. Youtube has youtu.be, The New York Times has nyti.ms … why shouldn’t you have your own short URL service ?   Aside from the fact that it looks really cool ... Read More »

How To Make A WordPress Custom Login Page by coding & Plugins: Looking more professional with customized login : One might wonder what the benefits are of changing a page only the administrators can see. Yet frankly, the advantages are immense if you’re considering having a more professional look. Besides , some people who install WordPress do it with the idea of handing the site to their clients, which will demand it to comply with the rest of the site’s design. So having that in mind, it’s best to make sure it looks the same to preserve your image as ... Read More »

11 wordpress plugins to make your site Mobile-Frienly : Internet users that browse using mobile are growing exponentially.Its a need of today to make your site mobile friendly.If you are not paying attention to this you are either annoying your users or losing them permanently.Here we have come with 11 plugins that make your site mobile friendly.Some plugins are premium while some are absolutely free.Have a close look towards them and choose the best one for you. Advantage of using These Plugins : First it helps your users with a clean mobile design.Secondly plugins like WPtouch Pro support adsense ads ... Read More »

Floating Social Media buttons for WordPress Blog What makes WordPress stand out is its ability to adjust with numerous useful plugins which make our life easier using them.Earlier when you or your visitor wanted to share something from your blog they needed to copy and paste your url on social media sites.If not these there used be a lot of complicated coding to add these buttons to you blog. Nowadays you may be seeing floating social media buttons on almost every blog.IF you are new to it we will show you how to add floating social buttons on your blog.Slick ... Read More »

WordPress theme framework :One theme to make them all WordPress is one of the few platforms to facilitate easy derivation of existing themes and easy redesign and modification. It offers that through the use of child themes, which basically allow you to rewrite the main CSS file and the functions.php file of your existing plugin , allowing you to use a starter theme to get to a better, redesigned theme of your choice. But where do theme frameworks come in the equation? Theme frameworks are in their essence no different from regular themes, with the exception that they were built ... Read More »

Going global in a matter of Minutes: One of the greatest benefits of the Internet is that it allows us to be global without losing our diversity. We use English as our lingua franca – or common language – but we still want and can get a translation of anything we want in our native tongue. So for such needs, there has to be a way to translate your WordPress theme to another language, which is frankly invaluable in our multicultural world. There are two ways to go around this, one of them requiring an external program, and one of ... Read More »