WordPress Training-A Wise Investment

By: Scott Foster

In the early days of the web and websites online, most of us found a webmaster and we hoped they would give us what we wanted for the payment we rendered.

The reality is that it didn’t always work out the way we’d planned. Quite often, the website we received wasn’t the one we wanted and didn’t really work for us in the way we hoped it would.

SEO training was really non-existent and self-building of websites also was not yet the trend. Today, fortunately, that has changed.

Enter WordPress, the CMS and Blog Software

The ability to get your own WordPress website off the ground exists in nearly every aspect of the internet and you can build skillfully with just a small amount of website building or WordPress Training. HTML websites are simply not friendly to the search engines. They are often difficult to use and the means to create those things you want from them is more difficult.

WordPress permits you, with a little WordPress training, to manipulate your own site and get precisely what you want from your business or personal site. The low learning curve of WordPresss means that you can have your small business or your personal site online in no time at all.

WordPress Training

Investing in a good course for WordPress training is a wise move no matter what you will be using your WordPress website to accomplish. WordPress sites are fast and easy to use, and are search engine friendly. With WordPress training, you can learn to develop WordPress sites for others and add to your income.

Most WordPress training courses online are single classes that go over the main or basic workings of the WordPress and may or may not offer you a booklet or a video to assist you. Some will use shared screen functions such as Go-To-Meeting to assist you in picking up the basics of WordPress.

Nearly all of them will give you the all-important portions of WordPress in the WordPress training, such as how to install it manually or using Fantastico, how to add the plug-ins and which are the best plug-ins to use to add basic functions such as SEO to the WordPress website.

When selecting your WordPress training, try to choose a course featuring either video or e-books that will permit you to have something you can keep and have to refer to over the course of your learning process. Once your WordPress training course is completed, in many cases, you don’t have reference materials and you should have.

Ideally, any WordPress training course you will take or buy will include an often forgotten section on htaccess and hardening WordPress so the sites you will build over time are well secured and easily maintained.

WordPress blog and CMS software will be a wise choice to use for your business or your personal website. Getting some good WordPress training means you will not need to rely on others to make the changes to your website that will be required as your business grows and thrives.

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Struggling to Make Money from Your Site?

Provided by: Brenda
Website Assassins Could be the Problem!

Do you have the latest and greatest gadget? Did you take the time to build the better mousetrap, sure that the masses would indeed come? Perhaps you have put together a beautiful website that is easy to navigate and offers a much-needed product or service and still your website is barely turning a profit. Did you know there are some surefire website assassins out there that will practically guarantee visitors will turn away in droves? Even if you have hired all of your web design and content creation out to “professionals,” these are things you must watch for.

Spelling

It would seem to go without saying that a professional website should contain proper spelling. The problem is many times a writer does not speak English as a first language or they are simply to lazy to employ spell check. It might seem like nitpicking, but if you expect people to trust you with their hard-earned money, proper spelling and grammar usage is imperative. Remember, building a customer base is not all about the product or service you offer, it is about trust.

Broken Links

How many times have you visited a site and followed a broken link? This is where you click on a link and get the dreaded “error” or “sorry this page cannot be found”. Let me ask you one question, do you return to that website often if ever? A broken link here or there might be forgiven if you have a killer website, but if it happens often, your visitors will leave, never to return or spend a dime! Check your links periodically to ensure this website assassin does not strike your business.

Poor Design

Creating a website is not rocket science; however, it is not a simple color by number project either. A good website will be:

Aesthetically pleasing
Simple to Navigate
Appropriately Professional

Does this mean a website cannot be fun? Of course not, but you should let the subject of the site guide color choice, graphics and basic layout. For example, a website promoting party balloons would look fantastic with bright neon colors and fun graphics; on the other hand, a professional housing contractor should probably use more sedate color choices. If your site looks like it was designed by a ten year old, your traffic is not going to convert well!

Final Thoughts

As you can probably guess, this is not a comprehensive analysis of everything that can go wrong with a website. In order to be successful and better yet, profitable, you need search engine optimization (SEO), promotion, links and backlinks as well as a host of other components. However, if you feel you have all of the above and more but you are still lacking traffic or conversions, it could be anyone of the problems listed above. The moral of this story? Use professionals to create your website and then check their work periodically!

Blog Networks Being Rapidly Deindexed Has the SEO World Up in Arms

Provided by: Robbi Drake

The SEM companies around the country are getting notified by Google Webmaster warnings recently that they are out of the loop so to speak and that they need to watch out for artificial links that are being used to manipulate their page rank. It started about a month ago, in February and as more and more sites and companies are receiving notices, the alarm is spreading exponentially.

Very large blog networks such as BuildMyRank have been hit the hardest. In fact, Build my Rank is actually closing their doors. Google seems to be saying that they are seeking out every blog network and they are going to find those who are responsible for the backlink profiles that appear unnatural to them and deindex the sites involved in them.

Buying links has always been against the TOS and it’s always been a bad way to go about doing business with Google. When you seek out a new way to scam the system, it works… for a while. In fact that’s what we’re seeing now. Google is taking a hard look at blog networks which are offering links to many sites around the country and leaving a big footprint. Advertising what you’re doing online, particularly on Google, doesn’t seem the best way to do business when business is actually doing something against the TOS of the search engine that primarily promotes your business, but people do it all the time.

This time, it’s catching up to them. Google, of course is not spilling the beans on how they found the offending companies who are selling links and they aren’t offering any way in which you can rank better in search. In fact, they are, if anything making it more difficult for the people who are, effectively, paying their salary, to create links at all.

Matt Cutts, one of the Google powers that be, has shared a lot of link building tips over the years, but now, just a short while later, Google is saying that links need to be completely natural and that you can’t build them at all.

For those who have the links from the blog sites and blog networks, the companies in question have given them the option to shut those links down and that seems to be the best option that they currently have to prevent an all out deindexing of their sites.

The answer to links to your site seems to lie in creatively making people want to link to you. Create some kind of controversy, open a new discussion, ask a question or offer an answer. This would seem to be the best method of inbound linking to use and the one least likely to get your site deindexed. Buying links is never the right answer, but what is the right answer remains to be seen.

Who’s Really Making it Online?

By: Scott Foster

The answer to that question is, nearly everyone. People from all walks of life are making money. Older Americans, teenagers, stay-at-home moms, retired business owners and even small companies in Africa, and individuals who have an idea and a good way to present it.

Shockingly, during what was a marked economic downturn for many countries, the United States included, with jobs lost and hours cut, the internet seemed to be functioning at peak capacity.

A few jobs were lost, a few sites went under. Notably, the very small ones who didn’t take the time or the bother to learn SEO tactics or hire someone to drive traffic or learn more about the best way to market their products and services are the ones which are no longer here?

Did the people who succeeded have some magic formula they used In all honesty, no, they didn’t have anything more than common sense and patience, as well as drive that took them forward,..

Why did they succeed and how did they accomplish what so many other people before them don’t seem to be able to? During a time that was less economically sound for everyone, many of these people doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled their Adsense or their online income.

How did they accomplish that?

Did they hire traffic, use Solo Ads, pay someone to do their traffic driving and other things? The answer to most of those questions is “No!” Most of these people did not have a lot to start with, began with some simple skills and honed them.

They took the time and the energy to learn what they needed to get ahead online. Most of them started from scratch and worked from 1 or 2 dollars a month to get where they wanted to be. Was it luck? Typically, no. Was it skill? Again, not always. Many of these people…

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Buying Article Writers For a Dime a Dozen

Provided by: Scott Foster

Extra Extra! Read all about it… you can now buy articles for CHEAP! From a myriad of writers.

But is this really a good business decision – to go cheap? “What about the quality?” You might ask. Yea, exactly! Quality is what counts – right? For you – maybe! But for the person you’ve hired to write for cheap, this is not always the case.

The best way–the most correct way to have your articles written will be to use language that is designed to make complex subjects easier to understand, rather than trying to make the article seem more complex than it really is. Making complicated subjects easy for your readers to deal with improves the user experience on your website.

Use writers who are well known and easy to find online. Typically article writing services or writers who have provably been in the business for several years will be your best place to buy website content.
The SEO and the keywords should fit naturally, or fall naturally into place; they will not be forced into the article. They seem to flow without any real effort. More than this, don’t choke your articles full of keywords. Your customers are going to notice, and more, the search engines are going to notice and throw a penalty for keyword stuffing. More than two percent these days is just too much.

SEO writing is an art in and of itself. You can buy articles from literally anywhere at all. That doesn’t mean you can by good articles from anywhere.

Everyone and their brother will encourage you to get your website content from them. The fact is however, that you’re going to be best served to get them from companies or individuals who have been in the business of SEO writing for at least two or three years.

The older writers in these companies are the ones who can give you that kind of flow. They know the best way to make your keywords fit without making them sound forced and they know that their articles need to entertain the reader as well as to sell the product.

When you get website articles from companies who have been online for a while, you’re assured that their writers and their staff are in the know about what you’re looking for. New writers are cropping up at an astonishing rate. Many of them will tell you how expert they actually are at SEO writing. The reality is that you’re going to find they simply aren’t all that they tell you. The writers who have been online and in the business for a while are people who have learned SEO and marketing practices over the course of time.

Just some food for thought.

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Cultivating Your Seeds of Success

By: Angie

If you are interested in achieving success in the virtual business world, it is absolutely essential to have high-quality, keyword rich articles that will result in targeted traffic. I like to refer to articles as the “seeds of success”. The right content, coupled with the right marketing strategies, assist in generating the “buzz” your business needs to succeed.

Many entrepreneurs simply write an article or have articles written for them, post them and then leave them to sit. By comparing the articles to seeds, you quickly realize that it takes a bit more work to ensure that they reach their level of financial maturity. When planting physical seeds, you must take several steps to ensure that they meet and/or exceed their physical growth potential. The same holds true for articles that you use to draw attention to the products and/or services that you offer online.

If you are interested in cultivating physical seeds that will grow into trees, vegetables, fruits or flowers, there are numerous steps that must be completed in order to ensure that those seeds physically mature. You know that it takes a lot more than simply digging a hole large enough for the seed, covering it with soil and giving it a little bit of water.

In order to successfully cultivate the seed, you must ensure that it is given the proper amount of room to grow, it is planted in the right season, it receives the right amount of sunlight, it is provided plant food and water, and it is consistently evaluated for potential complications that could hinder its overall growth success rate. The same holds true for articles – which, in the virtual world, are considered to be YOUR seeds of success.

The following steps may be taken to ensure that your seeds of success are properly nourished and growing in a manner that is beneficial to your online success:

1. Promote Your Content – One of the most successful ways to ensure that your article stays healthy and continues to bring you the financial success that you desire is to promote that article. The most productive means of doing this is through virtual syndication. By engaging in syndication with major social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and others, you will quickly discover that you have the ability to experience high levels of success. Syndication results in high levels of targeted traffic, offers you up to 200% more visibility in major search engines such as Yahoo and Google and allows you to acquire a high level of inbound links from other relevant websites quickly.

2. Expand Your Content – In order to properly cultivate your seeds of success in the virtual world, you must expand your content. Not only will this increase your search engine rankings, it will assist in helping you get a healthy amount of inbound and relevant backlinks and assist in displaying your expertise in your niche. However, it takes a bit more than simply spinning or rewriting your original content in order to succeed. You must actually add a higher level of value and use unique spins on your original work.

The goal is to provide the highest level of value to your readers. When a seed starts to grow into a plant, you may take pieces of that plant to make a new plant. However, it is not the same exact plant. It is a life form of its own. When expanding your content, simply take a piece of the original in order to create completely new pieces that are a unique life form of its own. By doing so, you will be respected by search engines and your readers.

3. Update Your Content Regularly – In order to successfully cultivate a plant, you may experiment with different fertilizers, or even move the plant into a highly decorative vase or other type of container in order to make it more attractive. In order to successfully cultivate your articles and make them appealing to readers, it is essential that you consistently update your content and make sure that it remains highly relevant. By doing so, search engines will rank you higher and individuals will continuously return to check on updates. You may simply rewrite the content, add to the content, or syndicate the content to new locations online.

By following the steps outlined in this guide, you will experience a high level of success in cultivating your content in the virtual world. Our writers at Need-An-Article have the ability to create fresh content, rewrites, eBooks, and more. By simply logging in today, you may order the articles, or “seeds”, that will permit you to achieve high levels of success. In the near future, Need-An-Article will also be providing you with the ability to syndicate your content across many social media platforms.

This new feature will assist in helping you get ranked higher in search engines, acquire an exceptionally large amount of inbound links, acquire followers without utilizing a set advertising budget and create customers that will remain with you for life. Syndication, expansion and updates will allow you to see your seeds of success grow into healthy, long-lasting life forms that will bring you the financial success that you desire!