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Monday, September 18, 2017

What You Need To Know About Using Wordpress

By Dougherty Trent


Making use of WordPress can pose some challenges. If the platform is new to you, some advice could be invaluable. As you learn more, the more successful your blog will be. This advice will help you learn more about using WordPress.

Be sure to add an author biography to each blog post on boards where many bloggers are posting. In this way, each blogger gets proper credit and it is easier for readers to know who posted what at a glance. Furthermore, readers will tend to stay on your page if they can get all the information they need in one place.

Make sure you use "title" and "alt." text as you are uploading images to your posts. This will give you more space to use for SEO phrases. Additionally, it will help viewers whose images are turned off know what is on the page.

Optimize your photo size before uploading them to your WordPress media library. Photos should be no more than 10 to 15 kilobytes in size. A website is no place for a multi-megabyte sized photo. It'll slow down your website, which may cause some visitors just to surf elsewhere. Take the few minutes it takes to downsize that photo.

Make use of a landing page. Instead of coming directly to current posts, users will pass through this landing page first. You can use this for a variety of reasons, whether for promoting a product or promoting yourself. Many themes feature a landing page; however, there are also paid options.

Learn what you need to know before you begin. The more planning you do ahead of time, the better off you will be when you begin. Search engine optimization is another thing you want to be concerned with.

Keep close track of visitors to your blog. This is the only way you will be able to improve it to please your reader more. Free WordPress bloggers can use Jetpack stats to do this. Both free and paid bloggers can use Google Analytics. Be sure to make good use of both services if you can because they offer slightly different advantages.

Never use the term "admin" or anything similar for your username. Bots will attack your blog if you make your username ADMINISTRATOR or ADMIN. It puts your site's security at risk. Look at each individual page on your site and change admin or administrator usernames. Choose something else.

Incorporate a social sharing plugin for your WordPress blog. Integrating social media with your blog will be a great boon to your traffic. Your users can instantly share your article through Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites. Look for a plugin that will allow liking and sharing, since both will be beneficial.

Want to create a new link in your post? There is no need to click the link icon any longer. Use ctrl-shift-A instead to start the link creation process using the keyboard and not the mouse. When you create many links within your content, this can shave time off the creation process.




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