Top 10 Website and/or Blog Traffic Tips

Posted by WP Gal in Blog, Blog Maintenance, Blog Optimization, Blog Tips, Inbound Marketing, Internet Marketing, Keywords, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), Social Media, WordPress plugins | 3 comments Traffic building is a form of online marketing, and it isn’t a magic formula where you snap your fingers and *poof*, you have regular visitors on your website or blog. It requires work, and most importantly, time and dedication to drive traffic to site. There are many ways to increase traffic to your website or blog, but it boils down to building trust and credibility. When people trust...
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WordPress 3.2 – Getting Ready for the Update

Posted by WP Gal in Blog, Blog Maintenance, WordPress | 0 comments July 4th, 2011 update: WordPress 3.2 has now been released! Always be sure to backup your WordPress site/blog as well as your database before upgrading, just in case something goes wrong (rare, but it can happen)! Original post: WordPress 3.2 is being released soon, and if you have a self-hosted WordPress website or blog, then you should be aware that it’s super important to keep your...
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The Beginner’s Guide to Web Design with WordPress at Learnable

Posted by WP Gal in Blog, Blog Maintenance, Blog Tips, WordPress, WordPress plugins, WordPress themes | 0 comments It’s been rather quiet here in the UC Web Creations blog, but that’s because I’ve been so busy with several web design projects as well as a project of my own: a beginner’s WordPress course! Introducing my new course, “The Beginner’s Guide to Web Design with WordPress”, offered exclusively at Learnable.com. In the past few months, I’ve been lucky...
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PluginBuddy’s BackupBuddy Saved My WordPress Site!

Posted by WP Gal in Blog, Blog Maintenance, Blog Optimization, Blog Tips, BlueHost, Resources, WordPress | 0 comments I can’t stress just how important it is to backup your blog or website! I’ve been having an issue with the backend of my WordPress site for a while now, but just hadn’t had time to really look into it as I have some client projects on the go. My site is definitely due for an overhaul and redesign, however, in the meantime, since this is what I currently have and my clients’ projects come...
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SEO Problems When Using BlueHost for Multiple Domains

Posted by WP Gal in Blog, Blog Maintenance, Blog Optimization, Blog Tips, BlueHost, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) | 21 comments No matter if you use BlueHost (which I highly recommend) or another hosting provider, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) should be important to everyone with a website because applying certain SEO tactics and strategies will help you to rank better with the Search Engines, which in turn will make it easier for people to find your website as opposed to someone else’s when they search for...
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WordPress Security Tips: Avoid The Hackers Series (Part 1)

Posted by WP Gal in Blog, Blog Maintenance, Blog Optimization, Blog Tips, WordPress, WordPress plugins | 0 comments “Ack!! What happened to my blog??” As with everything that becomes popular, WordPress is not immune to the potential breach of security that hackers can inflict, and it certainly has not escaped the attention of hackers around the globe. There is always someone out there who wants to do more harm than good… that’s how I see hackers, anyway. As a law-abiding citizen, I...
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Discover How to Improve Your Page Rank and Site Traffic

Posted by WP Gal in Blog, Blog Maintenance, Blog Optimization, Blog Tips, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), WordPress, WordPress plugins | 1 comment With many dubbing Google as the “King of the Internet”, any changes they make to the way they rank a website catches everyone’s attention, including mine! There are many ways to improve your page rank and traffic on your site, but in this post, I will concentrate on one major tip: decrease your site load time! If you’re wondering why, read on! I guess I should start by...
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WordPress Plugins: Friends or Foes?

Posted by WP Gal in Blog, Blog Maintenance, Blog Tips, WordPress, WordPress plugins | 0 comments One of the greatest things about WordPress is the ability to add functionality to it via plugins. There are some awesome free and premium plugins out there that will enhance your WordPress blog or website, and personally, I find it difficult to keep my number of active plugins to a minimum, but there are a few reasons to not install every single plugin you find that you like! Why would you want...
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Differences Between WordPress.com and WordPress.org

Posted by WP Gal in Blog, Blog Maintenance, WordPress | 12 comments People often wonder and ask about the differences between having a blog on WordPress.com and having a blog through WordPress.org. I recently watched a video interview with Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress. He gave a very unique, yet fitting analogy that I really liked, and wanted to capture in this post where I attempt to explain some of the differences between WordPress.com and...
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WordPress 2.8.5: Hardening Release (Security Update)

Posted by WP Gal in Blog, Blog Maintenance, WordPress, WordPress plugins | 0 comments As with any technology that becomes popular, there are always people out there who decide to develop ways to attack, hack, exploit, and just plain break it! In my opinion, Apple will soon be facing this problem as well as Macs become more and more popular. WordPress is no different, and with WordPress popularity growing at a fast pace and being so widely used, there have been some security...
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