You know how every online guru says that you have to publish to your blog regularly, often, and consistent if you want to have meaning. This wisdom translates "if you want to improve your Alexa Rank". Improving your Alexa Rank shows the world you have good traffic on your website, these attracting advertisers. The outside advertisers propose things to do on your blog, a sponsored post, a sponsored link, a banner, whatever. I don't think that Alexa requires backlinking, like showing up high in … [Read more...]
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The art of blogging, pure and simple autobiographical or fictional posts
How to Use Both the Gutenberg Editor and the Classic Editor in WordPress
With WordPress 5.0 and up, the classic editor (TinyMCE) will be replaced with something newer and maybe easier, named Gutenberg (after the publisher who introduced printing in Europe). The Gutenberg editor brings block-based editing to WordPress, similar to how Wix, Weebly, or Site123 organize their editing. This was actually the reason for the whole circus: the competition from the “free” website builders. What people don’t understand is that Wordpress is REALLY free, IT is open source and … [Read more...]
Own Your Blog, It’s a Necessity, or the Damaging Effects of Blogspot
To own your blog is an imperative. I still wonder how's possible to convince the uninformed people that in order to credibly succeed in being representative online, one needs a website or a blog, on a brand domain, on a paid host. If you tell someone who uses Blogspot (the Google acquired blogging platform) that it is lame and it has a horrible design mostly because of its own limitations, you become instantly his enemy for life. The reason is of course psychologically explained. By showing a … [Read more...]
Switch to Twitter Cards ASAP – That, only if You Need Conversions!
I'm writing this more as an advice than a tutorial, also explaining the differences between Twitter posts with pictures and posts with the Twitter cards enabled. It is simple and necessary at the same time, especially if you have some nice pictures to illustrate your posts. Pictures invite to clicks, and every click on it sends the reader to your blog post which potentially leads to a conversion, especially if you have something to offer. Even if you don't sell a service or a product, since you … [Read more...]
PageRank Is Dead. A Certainty Now
PageRank is dead. Officially. I was wondering why my website doesn't rise on this so important metric at at a time? It was because Google as a company who cares more about its products than the consumers, didn't update since December 6, 2013. Because I still saw it on my browser, I wasn't concerned at all. It is right that I have received a wink from a link manager once when I said that I'll work to increase my PR in no time (it was in 2014, and it concerned my other website, The Yacht Owner), I … [Read more...]
A WordPress Developer Who Teaches You Nothing
It's a pity when you claim you are a developer, a Wordpress developer, a php coding guru, and you make nothing more than copy theme descriptions and placing them as blogposts, stuffed with affiliate links to their respective demos. I talk now especially about the Genesis promoters, who are sometimes promoting themselves (I really don't figure what with) as coaches or quite as tutorial creators. Unfortunately only a few are so dedicated and efficient. The great majority of this fake … [Read more...]
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