Here's a quick checklist to help you maintain your WordPress blog. Feel free to print it, bookmark it, or do whatever else you want with it. One of the most time-consuming activities as a blogger is 'maintaining your blog'. I'm not referring to creating content or doing marketing and promotional work for your blog, I'm […]

Are you stuck for ideas on what to write about next on your blog? Well, there's no need to worry my friend. Below, I've compiled a list of 18 types of blog posts to get your creative juices flowing. As bloggers, we all get moments when we just can't think of anything topical to write […]

If you're serious about blogging, you'll take every opportunity available to learn as much as you can. Seriously, the way to succeed in blogging is by educating yourself and then applying what you've learned into your blogging strategy. Blogging is for life! That's what I tell anyone that's interested in starting a blog. Blogging is […]

What's the best frequency for writing and publishing blog posts? That's one question that is asked often in the blogosphere While blog posting frequency depends on many factors. Some of these include the following. Type of industry you are blogging in. i.e. news, media, politics etc. How much time you actually have to dedicate to […]

In this post, we're going to take a look at 13 pro tips for creating a powerful, conversion-focused, email opt-in landing page in WordPress. In addition, I'll also recommend some useful tools for you to use to create your lead capture page. Let me start by saying, I love working with WordPress. To me, it's […]

In this post, we'll take a look at 5 powerful ways to use effective call-to-actions or CTA's in your blog posts. Every website or blog uses some kind of call-to-action. The goal of a CTA will depend on the kind of response is required from a blog's audience. Today we'll look primarily at using call-to-actions to encourage your […]

So you want to drive more traffic to your blog, huh? Well, you've landed on the right post. Below are 11 ways to grow your blog traffic the smart way! Before we get started, if you have Google Analytics profile set up for your blog (which I'm pretty sure you will have), under the acquisition and all […]

I don't know how many times I've said this but let me say it again - WordPress is truly awesome! Building beautiful websites with WordPress is one of the many joys of being a freelance web designer. With WordPress, you can create a website for almost any purpose. Being open-source software, WordPress is a developers […]