Jun 10, 2009 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: Top 5 WordPress Resources

With WordPress gaining in popularity, there are many out there eager to learn all they can. I get emails several times each and every day asking where I would recommend WordPress newbies can start to read and learn. And I love that!! Getting contacted by those who actually want to make the effort to read and learn makes me want to do a happy dance! The best resource of all is WordPress.org and areas... read more

Jun 3, 2009 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: Visual and HTML Tabs

When folks start out on WordPress they are by default on the VISUAL tab in the editor for pages and posts. Inevitably the question comes up is why is the HTML tab there and why would one use it? The Visual tab is WordPress’ WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor. It allows those who don’t know code to be able to visually layout their post without having to monkey around with knowing... read more

May 27, 2009 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: SEO Permalinks

The default URLs or Permalinks created by WordPress are not user or search engine friendly. There all kinds of ways to tweak your Permalink structure to suite your needs, you can read all about Permalinks here. For example the WordPress default Permalink looks something like this: http://www.theistudio.com/muse/?p=123 So here’s a quick and easy tip to solve both of these issues. When in WordPress,... read more

May 13, 2009 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: Tired of Comment Spam?

WordPress comes with a good anti-spam plugin, Akismet that requires an API key and can be a bit much to implement for the average user. In lieu of this, why not try this great plugin that I have used on all my WordPress sites for years? Because of this plugin I have had zero, zilcho, nada comment spam! WP-SpamFree WordPress Spam Plugin – Powerful Anti-Spam Protection! What’s interesting is... read more

May 12, 2009 Posted by Judith

SEO Bullseye Marketing

Let’s see here… according to Google’s last index figure when they used to display that information, Google indexed 8,058,044,651 Web pages! This was the last figured displayed before they decided to no longer show their index count in October/2005! So it is pretty easy to understand that the number of sites and pages have grown exponentially. Not all are quality, not all are of interest... read more

Apr 9, 2009 Posted by Judith

Octo-search Growing Like Gangbusters!

Trying to pull relevantly for one word keywords is next to impossible. Especially for new sites. That has always been the case except for back in the day when there weren’t that many sites — or that many searchers for that matter. A recent report that was touting Google’s dominance of 72% of search traffic for March, 09 had the usual Google gains and other search engines lose scenario. ... read more

Mar 19, 2009 Posted by Judith

Become an All-You-Can-Eat Buffet for Search Engines

Everyone wants top 10 rankings as though just because they wished it that should make it so. Wishing has nothing to do with rankings. Unless you have a genie in a bottle, we all know it simply just doesn’t work that way. How about I get you thinking differently about this issue? Don’t Chase Search Engines — Let Them Chase You! How is that possible? Become a Search Engine... read more

Mar 10, 2009 Posted by Judith

How to Create a Blog

While Blogging is something many folks are doing and many more would like to do, for those just investigating starting a Blog, where do you start? How do you create a Blog? Based on the number of inquiries I get every day asking that very question it is clear that inquiring minds want to know! Many hosting companies offer Blog features or installation of WordPress in their control panels for those not... read more

Feb 2, 2009 Posted by Judith

Is Your Site More Than Just a Pretty Face?

For years I have been advising clients who wanted a “new look” to forget about static HTML Web sites and get on to WordPress. As a matter of fact, I no longer take on new clients who believe that have a handful of “web pages”, what I call brochureware, is all that is required. Why make that stand? Because I’ve always believed that to take someone’s money knowing that... read more