There seems to be a huge craze lately with everyone trying to blog and ping to get their websites indexed into the search engines. Although this can be a great tool, all marketers should first understand exactly what they’re getting themselves into before starting.This article is to serve as a beginners guide to getting started with blogging and pinging. strong>1. What Is A Blog? A “blog” is short for “web log.” A web log is an online diary or journal. The main aspect blog is that it is frequently updated – at least once a week, sometimes every day or even more. Since blogs are regularly updated, they te

Do you want to change the look of your WordPress site or maybe to put something like a banner or adsense code on your blog? In order to do this you need to know about three important things: template files, functions and CSS. Template Files These files are stored in a directory (wp-content/themes/template-name/). So if you are using “default theme”, you need to access the files that are stored in “wp-content/themes/default/” directory. There are several common WordPress template files you should know: 1.header.php This file is responsible for the appearance of the top section of your blog. If you want to

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When using WordPress Blogs, you need to use the proper elements. Headings are always at the top. Paragraphs need to have the right structure. Make sure your lists are actual List and not some gibberish. The theme should be constructed properly, if you use Images make sure there is text to back it up. Keep your content up to date and good, great of course would be better. Let you creativity flow. Use the permalink structure. When setting up each of these you need to keep the following content and styles in the forefront of your mind. For Page titles, it should mean and say exactly what the content on the page is. Alt tags are where yo

I am a website designer and also a site promoter, due to my line of work, I often get asked by my clients who started to adopt blogging on how to optimize their blog page. They look behind the admin pages and realize that there are many PHP files within a single blog theme. Most of them are familiar with HTML coding but not PHP so, when they look around the files, they don’t really know where to add their keywords. They usually search around and look for the “meta keywords” tag but can’t seem to find them. Unfortunately, meta tags are not something that WordPress installs just because they are too many parameters t

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