What Makes a Blog Suddenly Become Popular? Published by James ParsonsContent Marketing • Posted December 11, 2015

Some blogs languish for years before getting their big break, bursting onto the scene and becoming the next Upworthy, the next Cheezburger, the next YTMND, the next EbaumsWorld. Some blogs explode onto the web with a crazy launch party and never really fold. Many blogs never see their chance, and ho…

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Yoast SEO Sitemap vs Google XML Sitemaps Plugin Published by Kenny NovakSearch Engine Optimization • Posted December 8, 2015

If you search for Sitemaps on WordPress, the number one result you’re going to find is the Google XML Sitemaps plugin. You can find it here. However, it’s maybe not always the best option. Did you know that Yoast’s SEO plugin, even the free version, now has XML sitemap functionali…

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10 Tools Top Content Marketers Use for Keyword Discovery Published by Kenny NovakContent Marketing • Posted December 4, 2015

In the days of ages past, content marketers had it easy. Keyword information was easily available through Google Analytics, using the Keyword Planner tool. Google just straight up provided a ton of information from organic search and ads, both in terms of general queries and in a more localized sen…

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How Do I Remove My WordPress Theme Footer Links? Published by James ParsonsContent Marketing • Posted November 30, 2015

WordPress footers have some good information in them, but at the same time, they’re kind of obnoxious. They also herald the fact that you’re using WordPress, which isn’t always a good thing. WordPress is a very, very widely used platform, and that means it’s often prone t…

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Should I Approve New WordPress Pingbacks & Trackbacks? Published by James ParsonsSearch Engine Optimization • Posted November 25, 2015

Pingbacks and Trackbacks in WordPress are a very interesting idea. Unfortunately, they were very interesting to spammers as well, and those spammers very quickly took over using them for malicious purpose. From then on, the debate raged; are they valuable? Should you approve them? Can you safely…

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16 Expert Tips for New Bloggers and Content Marketers Published by James ParsonsContent Marketing • Posted November 22, 2015

It’s easy to set up a blog and start blogging, but it’s very difficult to break into the blogging industry. There are hundreds of thousands of blogs out there with no readership, no plan, no editorial focus; just personal blogs with whatever the author feels like posting at the time. Now…

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How to Find What Plugins a WordPress Blog is Using Published by Kenny NovakContent Marketing • Posted November 18, 2015

There are plenty of reasons why you might want to do a little detective work to figure out what a site is using to run itself. Maybe they have a feature you quite like and would like to use it for your own site. Maybe you’re performing a study and want to figure out which plugins are most commonly used…

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How to Use Buffer to Increase Your Blog Traffic Published by James ParsonsSocial Media • Posted November 17, 2015

One thing that comes up from time to time – more so in the last year than in years prior – is Buffer. From context, you can gather that it is an app for some kind of social media purpose, but if you’ve never used it, it’s hard to grasp just what it is and what it does. This is made more…

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How Long Does it Take to Rank a New Company Blog? Published by Kenny NovakSearch Engine Optimization • Posted November 13, 2015

There’s a certain cycle of life online. Newcomers create new sites and new blogs. Businesses come in to spice up their old, lackluster websites with blogs. New companies spring up, running blogs to pitch their content. Black hats set up a handful of new spammy blogs every day. All of this is hap…

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Get Free Images for Your WordPress Posts with a Plugin Published by James ParsonsContent Marketing • Posted November 11, 2015

You ever see the high quality images on a blog and wonder how the blog owner found them? It’s not easy, right? You have to find the right image, you have to make sure you can have the rights to use it, and you have to format it properly for your blog. It’s a tedious and time-consuming process, w…

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