So you want to build a personal brand? Congratulations! In today’s global world, building a personal brand helps open up a ton of career and monetization opportunities. But if you want to do it – you’ll need for right tool. As far as that goes, I think WordPress is the best solution for most people to build a personal brand because with WordPress, you can build a website with all the necessary functionality without needing to know how to code. In this guide, I’m going to give you some tips on exactly how you can build a personal brand with…
Author: Colin Newcomer
Colin Newcomer
Colin Newcomer is a freelance writer for hire with a background in SEO and affiliate marketing. He helps clients grow their web visibility by writing primarily about digital marketing and WordPress. You can hire him to write for your website.
Have you been thinking of making the leap into WordPress Multisite? While it’s not as popular as vanilla WordPress, WordPress Multisite allows you to do a ton of cool things…if you understand how it works. If you want to run a network of websites which are all powered by WordPress and can share things like themes, plugins and users then Multisite is the solution. It is used to power many networks of websites which are owned by the same person, it can be used to allow people to signup for their own site under your umbrella and much more. To…
According to the most recent data, Pinterest has eclipsed the 200 million active user mark. You don’t need us to tell you that’s a lot of people. Which is why it makes sense that you might be searching out ways to integrate Pinterest into your WordPress site. If you have a suitable website and actually put forth some effort into growing your account and pinterest followers you will find that it can be a good source of extra traffic to your site and can help further your brand and introduce it to a new audience that you might not have…
Struggling with how to embed Google Maps in WordPress? There are tons of reasons you might want to display Google Maps on your WordPress site, for example you might have a business website and you want to add a map to your “contact” page so customers can find you. You might need to list multiple locations if you have physical stores or offices. You might want to create a review website and let people leave reviews of physical locations etc. What ever the reason out of the box, WordPress doesn’t make it very easy for you to work with Google…
We all know that one of the most important aspects of your website is it’s speed – it has been proven that even a small delay in loading time will cost you visitors, for example if run an eCommerce website making $100,000 per day, a 1 second page delay could potentially cost you $2.5 million in lost sales every year. It also known now that speed of a page is taken into account in Google’s ranking algorithm which could mean the difference between you and a competitor holding the top spot for a search term. Luckily, speed up your website…
Congratulations! You’ve got your WordPress website installed. Now…how the heck do you use the WordPress admin dashboard to manage your brand new site? The WordPress admin can be a little overwhelming if you are seeing it for the first time, there are lots of menu items, links, icons and settings which control all the aspects of your website. Despite that, it’s actually pretty easy to learn how to manage your site using the dashboard – you just need to take a little time to find out what each area does and see the settings you can change and what effect…
Every day, people on the Internet consume billions and billions of videos. That’s, well, a ton of video content. And it’s also an indicator that you probably want to include video content on your WordPress website. If your website or blog has been stagnating traffic-wise and you are looking for methods for increasing visitors, video is a great way to do so – by opening up a YouTube channel and creating regular videos to go alongside your regular written content you will be exposing your brand to a whole new audience. By hosting videos on a site like YouTube or…
What would you say if I told you that you could add a whole bundle of helpful features to WordPress just by installing a single plugin? Sounds pretty cool, right? Well, you can…and that plugin is called Jetpack. But even though Jetpack has over 3 million active installs, many WordPress users still don’t know what Jetpack does and, more importantly, how they can use and benefit from Jetpack on their own site. So…let’s change that. In this post, I’ll give you a detailed guide to Jetpack. You’ll learn: What the Jetpack plugin is How to install the Jetpack plugin How…
Staring down a WordPress migration and not sure where to get started? Don’t worry! Migrating WordPress is nowhere near as complicated as it once was. Even if you’re not super tech-savvy, I can almost guarantee you can figure out how to migrate WordPress without too much pain and suffering. Best of all – the method I’ll outline in this post works whether you’re just moving your site to new hosting or migrating your WordPress site to an entirely new domain name. Either way – it’s the same process! All you’ll need is: A free plugin called Duplicator Access to cPanel…
Something going wrong on your WordPress site is a scary thing, that’s for sure. But it’s also a situation that most WordPress webmasters have experienced at least once in their life (probably a lot more than that!). And as far as most common WordPress errors go, fixing the problem isn’t usually too difficult because most problems that can occur with WordPress are usually down to a few certain issues which have been seen time and time again. If you are the sort of person who is comfortable with digging into your WordPress installation yourself then it’s quite possible for you…