Tips for Beginning Bloggers

Tips for beginning bloggers: know your purpose, blog regularly, respond to comments, choose platform, write good content. Experienced bloggers share advice and ideas.

Link Picks: Tweepi, SEO, Social Media and WordPress Permalinks

Link Picks talks about the Twitter tool Tweepi, simple SEO techniques, social media icons on your small business website, and changing your WordPress permalinks to postname.

Two Plugins: NextGen Gallery and WordPress SEO

WordPress SEO by Yoast has handy tools for search engine optimization, such as focus keyword and SEO Title fields. NextGen Gallery is great for managing, uploading, sorting and displaying images.

So You Want to Widen Your Sidebar

Know how the layout of your WordPress site is constructed: it probably has a wrapper or container, content and sidebar. Content + sidebar = container size. If sidebar is too big, it will float down.

3 Reasons to Know about Redirection

Whenever you make a change to a permalink, you risk losing the search engine listings you have for a post. Also, if anyone has linked to that particular page or post, the link now goes to a missing page. The solution is: redirection.

Plug for Google Analytics Plugin

An argument for using a plugin for Google Analytics for WordPress – and a link to code, for those that prefer without the plugin.

Links: Permalinks, SEO and GoDaddy

Permalink structures in WordPress, SEO tips for your blog, a guest blogger coming soon, and GoDaddy has new owners.

Gain Customers with SEO – Case Study

Learn how changing permalinks to keywords, cleaning up your code and a meta description tag might help your search engine rankings. Follow this case study of a site with playgrounds and parks in New Jersey.

6 WordPress Sites With White

A site that features a lot of white can often make the few color, images or text that it does use pop. Simple combined with stylish can send a strong message. Enjoy these white sites in WordPress.

Ten Impressive WordPress Websites

Ten websites in versatile, easy-to-use content management system called WordPress – which ones do you like?