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15 Plugins I Use On Every WordPress Site I Create

December 13, 2012 by Your WP Diva 1 Comment

One of the great things about using the open source Wordpress platform to create a website, is that in addition to the great themes available, there are literally thousands of plugins, which makes your Wordpress rock! According to www.wordpress.org, Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine! Many great plugins are available at no cost and those that require a fee, are available usually at a very affordable price. I believe that it is probably true that anyone who knows even the basics about Worpress, uses at least one plugin. Here are 15 (in … [Read more...]

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Search Engine Optimization for WordPress – Part 2

June 3, 2011 by Your WP Diva 2 Comments

It's the end of another week already. Whew! Seems like it was only a few hours ago that I was writing part 1 of this article. I hope that your week has been great. Now, let's get back to business. Here is part 2 of my article, Search Engine Optimization for Wordpress. If you've read part 1, you already know that WP comes ready to take full advantage of search engine submissions. You also know that the first 4 things to remember are: Good clean code Content speaks Create content with live searches in mind Site content is reviewed first. Following on part one then, here … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, SEO Tagged With: search engine optimization, search engine ranking, search engine submission, SEO

Search Engine Optimization for WordPress – Part 1

May 27, 2011 by Your WP Diva 3 Comments

Hope that you have great plans for the Memorial Day weekend. Can you believe that it is the end of May already? Did you know that WP comes ready to take full advantage of search engine submissions? According to Wordpress.org, "its features and functions guide a search engine through the posts, pages, and categories to help the search engine crawl your site and gather the information it needs to include your site within its database." The basic WP platform includes several built in Search Engine Optimization tools. One of the best is the ability to create static … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, SEO Tagged With: search engine optimization, search engine ranking, search engine submission, SEO

10 e-Commerce Plugins For Your WordPress Site

February 23, 2011 by Your WP Diva 8 Comments

Many of my clients used to use many different platforms, independently of WordPress, to sell products online. However, that trend is changing as it continues to become easier to integrate e-Commerce into WP, given all of the great applications now available. There are literally hundreds of shopping cart solutions, both paid and unpaid, that can be integrated directly into your WordPress site, either into your posts or your pages. A flexible and customizable Shopping Cart plugin can help you easily integrate an online store into your WP website or blog. Most of these are so easy to use … [Read more...]

Filed Under: eCommerce, Featured, WP Plugins, WP Themes

Are Your Struggling With Building Your Subscriber List?

February 17, 2011 by Your WP Diva 2 Comments

Many bloggers I know have one thing in common - they have all struggled at some point to build a subscriber list. Even more interesting is that many of them, if they are honest, for a long time did not even know what a subscribe list building meant, not to mention, how to build one. This is true for bloggers in all kinds of niches and industries; from all walks of life, beginners and pros alike. If you have been creating content on the internet for a while, you might remember how easy it was back in the day when you could add "Subscribe now" or "Free Newsletter" on any website and build a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, WP For Business, WP Plugins

New AWeber Web Form Widget for WordPress

February 9, 2011 by Your WP Diva 4 Comments

If you are not already capturing leads from your blog/website, then you need to start,now! AWEBER, one of my favorite email marketing applications, just announced the release of the API (Application Programming Interface) and WordPress Web Form Plugin. Sweet! So what's the big deal? The big deal is that this new application allows you to connect your WordPress site/blog with your AWeber account, letting you place lead capture forms on your self-hosted WordPress blog with just a few clicks, and without having to copy any code. Instead of having to log into your account to get code … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Auto Responders, Featured, WP Plugins Tagged With: auto responder, aweber, email marketing, web form plugin

WordPress 3.1 Coming Soon

February 3, 2011 by Your WP Diva 2 Comments

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! I heard it through the grapevine that WordPress is gearing up to release version 3.1 . (For those of you that don't know what the "grapevine" is, it's is the most reliable form of communication - even in this technology age!!!). According to very reliable sources, (top secret you know :-) ), it should happen any day now. In fact, it might already be available by the time this article reaches you. So what does this mean for WordPress users? Here are some of the new features I've learned about: The Admin Bar will now have a global drop-down … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Creating Content, Featured Tagged With: wordpress 3.1

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...]

Filed Under: Creating Content, Featured, Using Video Tagged With: embed video, how to embed video in wordpress, video embed

Events

November 15, 2010 by Your WP Diva

Your WP Diva is always on the look-out for programs, both free and premium, that offer both beginner and seasoned online marketers valuable information and opportunities for enhancing skills. (while I may provide information about third party programs and events please note that Your WP Diva offers no guarantees and takes no responsibility for the results promised in any of the programs or events and, many are reliant on your own efforts.) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Events, Featured