Serious online publishers, entrepreneurs, professional bloggers and business owners all know that when it comes to finding the right balance of elements that will keep a website performing at the highest level, there isn’t a lot of room for error.
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective WordPress Publishers
In honor of one of the greatest leadership and productivity manuals of
all-time, this post shines a light on your objectives as a WordPress
publisher with one overall goal in mind: To make you the most efficient,
focused, and successful website owner you can be. Great advice for any
online publisher.
Is This Simple (and Easily Fixable) Mistake Killing Your Site’s Page Load Times?
Your clients and customers have an extremely short attention span, and
slow-loading web pages send them away from your content, killing
conversion rates. Learn the strategies behind optimizing your images for
the web to keep them engaged and clicking. Have you ever wondered what
the best image resolutions and formats for your site were? Here you go …
Answers To The 4 Most Pressing Questions About Online Video Strategy
Master the learning curve of a highly effective video strategy that will
improve any serious online publisher’s content. Find out the pros and
cons of using YouTube vs. self-hosting your videos. Also, get important
advice from Brian Clark on persuasive video strategies, quick tips on SEO, optimization and revenue generation basics. Then it’s “roll camera!”
6 Reasons You Should Install the Jetpack Plugin for WordPress Today
The official Jetpack Plugin by WordPress.com has been touted as a
versatile, swiss-army-knife for WordPress. This completely free plugin
slices, dices and makes a few essential tasks pretty easy for online
publishers. Mr. Morris thinks you should install it now, and discusses
its more impressive functions: beefed up stat reviews, enhanced social
sharing, site comments and subscriptions, simple contact forms, and the
built-in spell, style and grammar check software (I’m sold).
When You Should (and Shouldn’t) Use a WordPress Plugin
Choosing the right plugin can be a bit … confusing. Learn the three
questions to always ask yourself before deciding whether or not a plugin
is actually what your site needs. Sure, they can solve problems and
serve important functions, but are they always good? And get a solid
suggestion for one of the most respected analytics plugins available.
13 Built-In WordPress Options that Online Publishers Need to Know …
Get a walkthrough of newly released WordPress Version 3.4 and its
powerful built-in options. Learn the ropes with 13 mini-tutorials of
some of its lesser-known and more useful tools including a live theme
preview that lets you experiment with the look of your site before going
live, and many improved post editing options. Publishing great content
has never been easier.
What Friedrich Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Using WordPress Plugins
You don’t need a major in Philosophy to understand and use this great
advice on how to maximize the positives of one of WordPress’s most
versatile (and potentially maddening) components — the plugin.
In the debate between your website’s functionality and stability, learn
some rules to live by about finding and using plugins to make your
online life a lot easier.
The 4 Factors of Conducting a Profitable Business Online
Get time-saving tips to keep you on track and profitable. There are four
factors that separate the professionals from the amateurs on the
digital frontier, and Mr. Morris wants you to run a more efficient
online business. Find everything from the importance of keeping your
site reliable, the visual impact of your brand, and the execution of
smart online marketing with true efficiency.
The True Cost of Building and Managing a WordPress Website
If you are serious about using WordPress as a tool for publishing online
content to drive traffic and build revenue for your business, start
here. Minimize costs and maximize the potential for your success by
learning some of the hidden expenses of WordPress management, as well as
the pros and cons of everything from digital sharecropping to premium
managed WordPress hosting.
Direct from the frontlines of the digital revolution, here’s a few articles to help you plant your flag and keep moving forward …
So valuable, I think, that I wanted to highlight some of it for you here.
And, thanks to Jerod Morris, we’re compiling some very valuable WordPress management advice over on the Synthesis blog.
Poorly coded themes, unstable plugins, and lapses in security can all turn a normal day into a digital panic room. We’re not big fans of digital sharecropping or shoddy, unoptimized hosting. If you remember, we dislike it so much, we actually built our own managed WordPress hosting.
In an instant, the poor performance of your website can undermine much of the hard work that every serious WordPress publisher does to build their presence and livelihood.
It’s one of the most overlooked (and undervalued) elements of an online platform that converts.
Our friends John and Cali over at GeekBeat TV were having some nagging hosting troubles, as well as a few issues they weren’t even aware of. Here’s what they’ve got to say about Synthesis …