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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…