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Unless you have already amassed thousands of “likes”, or have money to spend on Facebook Ads, Facebook is notoriously hard to gain traction on at first. It takes time to build up “likes”, and even when you have a decent…
Trust is something that most businesses strive to develop with their customers/users/audience. Readers of Chris Brogan will know it’s one of his cornerstones and something he’s written extensively about. Trust has to be nurtured and maintained as a value that guides…
Ah contact forms….such as a standard feature of a website aren’t they? One would think that WordPress would have tons of great, easy-to-implement choices for this. And indeed there are TONS of choices, it’s just that most of them have…
Mailchimp is providing a pleasant surprise for users upon logging out by presenting them with a gallery of beautiful email marketing designs from some of their users. Take a look and consider how you can improve your own email transmissions.…
What Is Jetpack? Jetpack is a plugin created by the team at WordPress.com. It is one super-plugin that contains a whole suite of features – mini-plugins, if you will. It was created to make available to self-hosted WordPress users some…
The speed at which your site loads is becomig increasingly important. Not only does a speedy site provide a good user experience, but it’s becoming increasingly important from an SEO perspective – site speed is a factor that Google considers…
Andrew Youderian • September 21, 2012 The only thing harder than successfully marketing your eCommerce store is trying to do it with outdated, ineffective techniques. That’s why I’ve compiled a “hit list” of my favorite highly effective eCommerce marketing strategies. Also included is a list of outdated/ineffective/dangerous/cancer-causing techniques that only spell trouble for your marketing…
Ignorance is most definitely not bliss when it comes to the world of SEO. In this article, we address a relatively simple search ranking element that many WordPress users overlook. If you want to maximize your rankings in Google (and ensure that you are not penalized), you must take ownership of every element of SEO…
As soon as you own your own website you will quickly amass a large number of online accounts – your web hosting account, FTP access, WordPress access, Google, Twitter, Facebook etc etc. This leads to 2 main problems for bloggers.…
Prerequisite: This tutorial covers adding a new disk drive to your linux computer. First it is assumed that the hard drive was physically added to your system. IDE based systems, can support two drives on each ribbon cable. The cable is attached to either the Primary or Secondary IDE controller. A “jumper” is pressed onto…
A common question I’ve been getting as of late is about how to embed a PDF into a WordPress page/post so that it’s actually viewable inside the post. If you use the Upload/Insert button to add your .pdf in the…
Andrew Youderian • September 6, 2012 Learning SEO can be an intimidating process. There’s an incredible amount of information online and even more conflicting opinions from so-called “experts.” You could spend months trying to sort everything out. Or you could invest 15 minutes reading this guide and come away with a solid foundation of how…
Andrew Youderian • August 27, 2012 This is the first in a series of posts about eCommerce marketing and SEO. There’s so much to learn when it comes to effectively marketing a new business, it can be dizzying. You need to think about on-page SEO tactics, link building, pay-per-click advertising, article writing, social media, guest…
A common question that clients ask me is about how to automatically update their Facebook page, Twitter account or other social profiles, when they publish a new blog post. There are many ways to do this – here are a…
Here’s a simple trick to find the last day of a month using PHP. $date_of_last_day = date(“Y-m-t”, mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, 1, $year)); This will give you the last day of any given month/year combination in the form YYYY-MM-DD. Read moreThe last 12 Months (2019/2020) & Looking Forwards (2021) | Kali Linux BlogFor example, if…
Andrew Youderian • August 10, 2012 I get asked a lot about drop shipping, so I sat down to write a brief post answering a few of the most common questions. Nearly 5 hours later, I was still writing and my “quick little post” had ballooned into a 4,000 word beast! To make the information…
Let’s say you want to run a video site. You want to run it on WordPress. You want a theme that will help you do that…and you want it for free! Thankfully, there are several great WordPress themes out there to help — that don’t cost a dime. A lot of WordPress themes are designed…
If you are a graphic / web designer accustomed to coding websites in static HTML, as opposed to PHP or some other database-driven system, making the move to WordPress can seem difficult and frustrating at first. Having had several clients…
Andrew Youderian • July 18, 2012 Once you’ve made the decision to make an online store, the process of launching it can be confusing and overwhelming. There are a lot of decisions to make, and focusing your efforts in the wrong areas can lead to months of wasted effort. Fortunately, you don’t have to blindly guess at…
