Why I Host My Websites With iPage

As an online blogger and entrepreneur, one of the most important decisions I have to make is which web host to use for my websites. Web hosting provides the basic framework for my whole business. Without reliable hosting, my e-commerce sites will lost customers, not to mention that I will not be able to properly create and manage my blog posts, sales pages and other content...

A Look at the Subscribe2 Email Subscription Plugin

If you have a WordPress blog and an email list (or you plan to start one), you can gain many advantages by downloading the Subscribe2 plugin. This is a free plugin for WordPress that allows you to manage your list and send out notifications when you publish something new on your blog. Email marketing is still a highly effective technique and one that can work very well with a...

Is WordPress always the best? When should you use HTML

I personally love WordPress. Apparently, so do many people out there, judging from the fact that there are more than 70 million websites running on WordPress and that almost half of the top 100 blogs in the world are powered by WordPress. That says a lot for a software that was started in 2003 as a blogging tool. Over the years, WordPress has evolved from being...

Essential plugins for a WordPress blog

You probably already know how great WordPress is for setting up and managing your blog. You have all kinds of capabilities and features, more than any one blogger will ever need. One of the best things about WordPress are the plugins. There are countless plugins that perform almost any task you can think of. One of the challenges when it comes to plugins is deciding which ones...

5 Common SEO Mistakes You Must Avoid

While SEO is something you do to help your website rank better in the search engines, doing it the wrong way can be worse than doing nothing at all. You are probably aware of the Penguin and Panda updates that Google has rolled out in the last couple of years. These have made it more important than ever to know what you’re doing in regard to SEO. In this article,...

Tips to Create an Effective Call-to-Action For Your Website

When you direct visitors to your website, you don’t want them to simply take a look around and then leave. You want them to take a certain action. That’s why your website should contain at least one call-to-action. The call-to-action is well known in email marketing. This is the part of the email that persuades readers to click on a link. Yet a call-to-action is...

How to write your first blog post

So you’ve finally created your blog. You’ve decided on matters like a domain, web hosting provider and theme or template. Your blog has a topic, a name, an URL and a good design. Now it’s time to fill in all that blank space with some blog posts! Deciding how to start off a new blog can be a daunting task. You want to impress the world with your new creation...

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