Creating Content

How to embed Video in WordPress

February 1, 2011 By Your WP Diva Leave a Comment

Since Google purchased YouTube, they have started including videos into an increasing number of search engine results. If you've seen them, you'll agree that there is nothing spectacular about these videos. Nope, they're basic, non-professionally shot videos showing up at the top of Google searches. Given the increased importance of videos to searching these days, WP is keeping pace with this important change. It use to be that you needed to know a little bit about html coding in order to proberly embed a video into your website or blog post or page. With WordPress 3.0.2, it is easier … [Read more...]

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How to create Permalinks in WordPress

January 24, 2011 By Your WP Diva 8 Comments

According to the definition provided by WordPress.org Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another weblogger will use to link to your article (or section), or how you might send a link to your story in an e-mail message. The URL to each post should be permanent, and never change — hence permalink. And why is any of this important? One of the great things about using a self-hosted WordPress site, is the built in SEO features. One of these features, is the use of … [Read more...]

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Why Bloggers Never Make Money

November 17, 2010 By Your WP Diva Leave a Comment

The 2009 Technorati State of the Blogosphere report found that while "more bloggers than ever are making money from blogs, they are not the majority". With the proliferation of bloggers over the last few years, why is it that many still fail to make money from their blogs? Everyone will, no doubt, agree that it is certainly not for a lack of information purporting to teach you how to make money blogging as there is literally tons of free and paid sources available on the internet. Many "experts" offer a variety of reasons why most blogs don't make money and I have compiled the 10 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Monetize Your Blog, WP For Business Tagged With: make money blogging, montize your blog

Keyword Winner – Pre Launch of SEO WordPress Plugin

October 14, 2010 By Your WP Diva Leave a Comment

Have you heard about Dan Lew's Premium SEO Wordpress Plugin! What is really kewl is that Dan is looking for some Joint Venture affiliates to help him promote it. If you’ve always wanted to get in on the ground floor of a JV launch, this is your chance. Keyword Winner will launch on October 20th and will pay 50% commission plus bonuses to top performing affiliates. Many of the big name bloggers will be promoting the plugin, including Thomas Sinfield, Alex Whalley, Dino Vidovic, Tyler Cruz and many more. You can catch the wave that will be created by all this buzz by taking advantage of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: SEO, WP Plugins Tagged With: keyword winner, seo plugin

Optimal Title Plugin

October 6, 2010 By Your WP Diva Leave a Comment

The Optimal Title Plugin changes how your page displays. Most website pages display in this sequence: www.yourdomain.com/thenameofthepage. Optimal Title Plugin changes the sequence so that your page title appears in this sequence: thenameofthepage/www.yourdomain.com How kewl is that and, why is it important? SEO baby!!!! The content that appears in your tags is used to generate search engine results and browser bookmark names. Since this information is often truncated when viewed., having the title of your page listed before the name of your blog/site is beneficial because it … [Read more...]

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Creating Sales Letters Using WP Themes

September 15, 2010 By Your WP Diva Leave a Comment

If you are doing business online, chances are you have heard about "squeeze", "landing" and "sales" pages. If you have connected with an online entrepreneur, chances are you probably landed on one of the pages mentioned above, promoting that person's program, ebook etc. You know the ones, they nearly always have a button that looks something like the image at left. The reason you see so many squeeze and sales pages with a similar design and content layout, is because they work! Period! If you have a Wordpress blog/site, I bet you're wondering just how you can create effective sales, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Creating Content, eCommerce, Monetize Your Blog, WP For Business, WP Plugins, WP Themes Tagged With: blog marketing, e-business, landing page, sales letter, squeeze page

Coming Soon Plugin for WordPress

September 10, 2010 By Your WP Diva Leave a Comment

Did I tell you that one of my favorite things is researching and trying out Wordpress Plugins? Did you know that there is a plugin for almost every conceivable feature you need for your Wordpress blog/site? Today's featured plugin is CJ Coming Soon. This plugin shows a 'Custom Coming Soon' page to all users who are not logged in. However, one of the kewl features of this plugin makes it possible for Site Administrators to see the fully functional website, including themes, active plugins and the fully functional dashboard once they are logged in. Some other kewl features of … [Read more...]

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How you can benefit from Blogging

September 1, 2010 By Your WP Diva Leave a Comment

If you already have a web site, having a blog can enhance, your existing web presence. The ability to provide your customers, and readers, with fresh content on a daily, or weekly basis can keep your business running even during lean months. Blogging is also a great way for small business owners, with little web design knowledge, and small budgets to establish a professional, attractive, web presence. Many designers charge much less for a completely customized blog design and installation than they would charge for complete, traditional, html or flash website design. When blogging … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Expert Bloggers, Monetize Your Blog, WP For Business Tagged With: blogging for cash, blogging for profit, make money blogging, monetize your blog

Connect Your Blog to Social Media

August 24, 2010 By Your WP Diva 6 Comments

Are you using Social Media Plugins on your blog? If not, you are missing a great opportunity to have your content shared with just a click of a mouse! Thanks to some really smart developers that there are tons of great plugins that make it easy for you to encourage your readers to share your content via social networks. Here is a list of my favorites: Simple Facebook Connect: Simple Facebook Connect (SFC) is a group of plugins that let you add a variety of Facebook Connect functionality to your Word then, each of the add-on plugins will let you add specific Facebook-related … [Read more...]