Advice for a Beginner Blogger – Go Nuts with What You’re Crazy About

Solomon | February 3, 2012 - 8:19 am

Running one of the more popular blogs in my niche, I talk to another beginner blogger who comes across my site and asks for advice every couple weeks or so. The first thing I tell all of them is you need to be writing about something you’re nuts about if you want to get anywhere. There are thousands of blogs about everything under the sun, and if you want to stand out from the crowd, you’ve gotta actually care about what you’re talking about.

That’s the easy part though.

Once you’ve found that, you hop online and start your blog. If you’re here, you’ve either made the right choice and decided to use WordPress to build your site, or you’re thinking about it. If you’re in the latter group [...]

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Moving from WordPress.com, Blogger or Typepad to a Self-Hosted WordPress Site

Edward R. Jenkins | February 2, 2012 - 12:33 pm

Are you a newbie to the blogging world and considering WordPress? Or perhaps you’re a longtime WordPress.com user looking for more control over your blog. If so, you’re probably wondering what the difference is between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, and what it means to you [...]

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Killer Content Your Visitors Love

Sharon | February 1, 2012 - 9:04 am

You have a great product to sell. You have a great website. What’s missing? Great content on your website is what is missing. But people are in such a rush these days. How do you keep people on your site long enough to read your content [...]

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What is Content Marketing?

Sharon | January 31, 2012 - 12:19 pm

Almost everyone who is in the business world has heard of content marketing. They may have seen an article about it. Perhaps an advertisement came up on the Internet regarding it. However, sometimes business owners believe that content marketing is not worth the trouble. They think that other forms of marketing are enough. But this kind of thinking is wrong.

So what is content marketing and why is it so important?

First, let’s look at the meaning of content marketing. Content marketing is marketing to your target audience without trying to sell them your product or services [...]

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Showcase: Best Restaurant Websites

Andrew | January 30, 2012 - 10:30 am

While restaurants can be known to have poorly designed, flash-filled web pages, a few have strayed away from this stereotype. Below I have listed my top five restaurant websites based on their looks and functionality. These websites feature clean designs and awesome color schemes that can be used to inspire anyone looking to build a site of their own!

Smash Burger

Smashburger - Best Restaurant Websites
Smash Burger’s site is a very sleek combination of reds, grays and browns. These subtle colors are easy on the eyes and the font used throughout the site is very clear and easy-to-read. The site features an oversized image rotator on the homepage, giving the website a really classy feel while adding just the right bit of flare [...]

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How To Move WordPress to a New Host

Edward R. Jenkins | January 27, 2012 - 11:32 am

The process of moving WordPress to a new hosting company once seemed so daunting to me that I spent almost two years with a Web host I was very unhappy with. The site in question received a fair amount of traffic and was a consistent earner. I didn’t want to jeopardize those earnings by switching hosts and dealing with potential complications.

When I sold said site to a somewhat technically-challenged buyer, I had no choice but to dive right in. The simplicity of the move and lack of downtime amazed me, and I’ve since gone on to move the majority of my Web properties to a much faster, more reliable host [...]

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Google’s New SEO Standards

Jay D. | January 25, 2012 - 6:55 pm

A run down of the recent changes being made to Google and how you can use them to your advantage.

The Internet is buzzing about all of the new changes coming to Google search. Facebook, Twitter and dozens of other social media sites are in a collective uproar, racing to find a way to fight back. But it’s just you and your WordPress blog. Maybe you have a Facebook or Twitter account. Maybe you even have a Google+ account. Now it’s time to take that extra step. 65% of all searches are on Google (U.S.). Like it or not, these changes are going to affect you. The good news is you can use them your advantage [...]

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Speed up WordPress with W3 Total Cache and Amazon CloudFront (CDN)

Dustin | January 23, 2012 - 1:27 pm

How to greatly improve your WordPress website’s speed using W3 Total Cache and Amazon CloudFront

Does your website seem to take forever to load? Are your visitors not making it past your homepage out of frustration? Are you producing useful content and optimizing your site for search engines, and wondering why your site still ranks so low? The speed of your website can be nearly as important as your content, design, and features, and can be the difference between users staying on your site, or going to your competitors [...]

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SoSweetCreative, built with the RichWP FrameWork, featured on “CSS Awards”

Felix | January 18, 2012 - 3:53 pm

I just got an email from Stephen Scaff that his site SoSweetCreative has been featured on CSSawards and is drawing massive attention & tweets on other design minded sites like like creattica.

SoSweet Creative has been built with the RichWP FrameWork and the RichCORP child theme.

RichWP was perfect for this portfolio project, as it allowed me to focus on the CSS and content and quickly bang out the site.
~ Stephen Scaff

Congratulations Steve!

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How To Add Facebook Comments To Your WordPress Website

Kevin | December 20, 2011 - 10:26 am

I added Facebook comments to my blog a two months ago. It’s proven to be a popular addition to the site. Most people stay signed in to Facebook when they browse the web so it has encouraged more comments on posts.

I initially tried a few different ways of integrating comments on my site. I followed some long drawn out tutorials that required lots of editing and I tried a few plugins too. Through trial and error I found that the the best way to integrate Facebook comments on your WordPress website is to use the official Facebook plugin Comments Box (Note, this is not a WordPress plugin) [...]

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