SEO (search engine optimization) is an important part of content creation. SEO means optimizing your content to draw traffic from the search engines. Choosing a focus keyword increases the chances of your content appearing in search engine results when people type in...
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The 5 Best WordPress Security Plugins
WordPress security is a concern for all of us who have self-hosted WordPress sites. With nearly 24% of the websites on the Internet built in WordPress, we’ve become a rich and entertaining playground for the hackers of the world. Finding the best WordPress security...
Let Your RSS Subscribers Choose: Full Text or Summary?
WordPress automatically sets up two feeds for you: your posts feed and your comments feed. You have a choice on the posts feed to publish the full text of your post, or a summary. Which do you choose? Some of your readers may prefer full text feeds, while others...
Slow Down the Content Scrapers with the FeedEntryHeader Plugin
You work hard on your content, and it's really disheartening to see that someone else has stolen it and published it on their site. But, what can you do about it? These lazy bloggers who steal content from other sites are called scrapers, and they most commonly get...
Clean Up Your WordPress Database with One Click
We've talked about why it's important to defrag your hard drive regularly. The same is true for your WordPress database. MySQL is the type of database WordPress uses, and while it's a great database, sometimes it doesn't clean up after itself too well, and left...