Edit WordPress Themes – Add External Links
Most WordPress themes automatically add navigation links at the top that point to pages you have added to your blog, but did you know you can add to that list? Even if it’s not a "page" within your...
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SEO With Plugins: Exploring Headspace2
A recent coaching session covered the SEO benefits of installing and using Headspace2. As members of that call will recognize, about 45 minutes was cut from this video. All the wasted time on technical...
View ArticleUpgrade WordPress Version
One of the most popular blogging platforms on the web today, WordPress offers a lot of features to make "push button publishing " possible for almost everyone. If this is your blogging platform of...
View ArticleInstall Your Own WordPress Blog
WordPress claims a *5 minute install* in their literature and videos. Bull-crap. Oh, I know, the installation part really is that fast, but there is so much more to a self-hosted blog than just the...
View ArticleAdd AWeber Form To WordPress Blog
Using AWeber as an Autoresponder will improve your chances of reaching the right people, at the right time, by allowing you to continue marketing to them over time. A WordPress blog (the best blogging...
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SEO Juice With Internal Linking
Recent articles on my main blog have focused on the organic traffic you want from the search engines, and how to get it. I hope you have been following along. Today, I want to show you a shortcut. I...
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Add Page Peel To Your Blog
If you are doing any type of marketing from your blog, I have a cool little trick that will help you *engage* your readers that isn’t quite as obvious as a 250 x 250 *ad* placed in front of them. They...
View ArticleInstall Revolution Streamline Theme and Insert Thumbnails [Video]
If you purchased the Revolution Streamline Theme and got it installed, only to discover your blog doesn’t look like the demo site, you are not alone, especially if you are installing it on an existing...
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Delivery Methods For Your Ethical Bribe
You’ve heard that before, I know you have. Especially if you are marketing your small business on the Internet. Well, I hate to break it to you, but it’s true. To have web success, you really need to...
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Monetizing Your Blog Traffic (Part 2)
Max Banner Ads (The first part can be found here) Now that you are getting some traffic to your blog, it’s time to start monetizing that traffic. And while you have several options (like Clickbank,...
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Monetizing Your Blog Traffic (Part 1)
Ohz: Who Sees Ads Now that you are getting some traffic to your blog, it’s time to start monetizing that traffic. And while you have several options (like Clickbank, Google Adsense, Affiliate...
View ArticleStop Leaking Your SEO And Losing Visitors: Redirection
Over time, your blog evolves (hopefully). This means category names change, posts are updated, files move or subdirectories are deleted. What happens when someone clicks a link to a post or file that...
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Part 1: Authority Niche Site Setup Series
The first in a series of videos that teach you how to setup an Authority Niche Site from the research phase, to monetization. Every step is shot live as we actually setup an RC Model Authority site....
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Authority Niche Site Setup: Add Your Ethical Bribe
Our Authority Niche site is coming along. We have a few posts, the beginning of a store and the theme is shaping up. Before we start sending a truck load of traffic, we need to find our ethical bribe,...
View ArticleMore About Keyword Research
Our Authority Niche Site is coming along, but I have been receiving questions about keywords, research and how they relate to the post content. This video explores some techniques for finding related...
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WordPress Plugins : Settings
A part of the ongoing Authority Niche Site Series, this video focuses on the how and why of some of the plugins recommended for the site. We cover not only the settings, but why to use certain plugins,...
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WordPress Posting Basics For SEO Juice
(Recorded during a coaching session) When you first start blogging, there is a *lot* going on in the new post screen and it can get a little intimidating, especially if you are using Headspace2 and...
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SlimStat: Stats Tracking For Your Self Hosted WordPress Blog
There are a lot of tracking tools and plugins out there, but I wanted to introduce you to one I found which really provides some amazing insights into your traffic. You can drill into a month, week or...
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Tubepress: Keywords and Playlist: Two Ways To Pull Videos
WordPress and Tubepress are the dynamic duo when it comes to coupling videos with your blog. Oh sure, you can embed a video into a post without Tubepress. In fact, you can go crazy and embed three or...
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WordPress: Create Full Width Page Template
Most blog themes come with a page template that includes the sidebar, much like the home page. There are situations where you might not want to include the sidebar, as in the case of adding an Amazon...
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WordPress: Add Amazon Store
One way to monetize your Authority Niche Site is to add an Amazon store as a page within your blog. If it’s featured on the first page and contains items that your visitors are interested in, it can be...
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Moving A Blog
When you are first starting out, often you choose the first hosting company that pops up on your radar. This is not always the best hosting company (sadly). When you hit the limits of bandwidth,...
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WordPress Posting Technique: From Concept To Published
I recorded a recent coaching session that went into quite a bit of detail on how to get an idea or concept from your head to your blog. In this video, my student had written his post content into Word,...
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Add Page In WordPress To Present Your Business
I was working with a client recently on presenting his business opportunity via a Page in WordPress. We discussed various methods to present his ideal presentation, and the followup messages that will...
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Headspace2 For Multipost Page Meta Tags
As you know, Headspace2 allows you to select the exact description, keywords and even browser title that will be used in the meta tags for the web page where that post is displayed. However, what do...
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Traffic Technique: Inbound Links
Traffic (or visitors) is the currency on the web. Without web traffic, your business blog or site is doomed to failure. Web traffic is one of the most important pieces of the web success puzzle. In...
View ArticleAdding Events To WordPress
As an online blogging coach, I am exposed to a LOT of different types of blogs. In fact, I setup a lot of different type blogs. Recently, I was working for a client creating a blog for her *group*, and...
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Adding Photo Gallery and Lightbox Feature
On one of the blogs I just created for a client, we added a photo gallery to share some of the photo’s taken at the client’s site. Since we wanted the visitor to stay on the blog as long as possible,...
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Upgrade From WordPress.com To Self-Hosted .Org
Many first time bloggers start out on WordPress.com, only to discover they are limited in options, plugins, advertising and flexibility. When that happens, it’s time to step up your game and go with a...
View ArticleUnblock New Category In Elegant Theme
If you have purchased the marvelous theme club subscription from Elegant Themes, congratulations, you made a great decision for your professional blogging appearance. In fact, this theme is one of the...
View ArticleVideo Proof Headspace2 Works To Get You On Page 1 of Google
You hear me ranting and raving about Headspace2 – an SEO plugin that helps Google find you. I have told you stories about how I have gotten posts on the first page of Google in under an hour. And still...
View ArticleWordPress: Find and Install Plugins
WordPress is really some amazing software. It’s open source. It’s free. It totally rocks! And one thing that WordPress did really well, was allow an open-ended hook system, so other developers could...
View ArticleHeadspace2 Video Tutorial
This short video (less than 30 minutes) shows you how to find, install and setup Headspace2, a WordPress SEO plugin. Though I have other Headspace2 videos, this one skips a lot of the explanations of...
View ArticleFind and Install WordPress Theme
In this video, I show off a few features from Elegant Themes, one of my favorite theme providers. We will also download, extract and upload to our domain one of the themes we find there. Some of the...
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More *Must Load* WordPress Plugins
I get several requests per week for more info on WordPress plugins. I think it’s because I am such a geek when it comes to WordPress and plugins. No matter. Today, I share a video I created just to...
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After Installing WordPress
There are a ton of tips out there on the web about what to do after installing WordPress. Some imply you can’t survive without doing these things. Others just suggest it’s a way to increase your...
View ArticleInstall and Setup Catalyst WordPress Theme
A recent coaching session explored a theme my student purchased called Catalyst. His goal is to create a default blog using the Catalyst theme and then clone it to multiple sites. We choose Catalyst...
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Add Google Maps To Your WordPress Blog Post or Page
If you are using WordPress to brand and promote your small brick and mortar business (and you should be!), then you might need to provide interactive maps for your customer to find you. This is...
View ArticleMyCuisine Theme Installation
Elegant Themes makes some of the most professional, beautiful and easy to use themes out there. One of their newest themes is MyCuisine, which has features just for food blogs. A client who has a Cake...
View ArticleLoad Balancing Plugins On Your WordPress Blog
Plugins are amazing, there is no doubt about that. However, too many plugins, or poorly setup plugins can cause your blog to run slow. It can be difficult to know what is causing you to slow down, and...
View ArticleWordPress Menus & Widgets Working Together
WordPress Menu Introduced When WordPress introduced the new menuing system in version 3.0, many of us were overjoyed. Finally, the ability to add anything to a menu, without the need to update the...
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WordPress Plugins: WP eStore Setup
I recently started using a new Plugin, which I really love. I love it so much in fact, I have been recommending it to those that offer something for sale on their blog. This plugin adds the ability to...
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Moving Your Tweaks Into New Elegant Theme Version
Are you using Elegant Themes? Have you followed videos here and made customizations to make it uniquely you? How do you deal with a new version that comes out? I know, right? God bless Nick Roach and...
View ArticleWordPress: Repair Blank White Page in Dashboard
You updated to the latest version of WordPress and suddenly, your entire Dashboard went missing behind a blank white page that is completely empty. Now, you can’t do anything. No new posts, no new...
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SEO Optimize WordPress Post or Page
There are two major factors in employing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to your WordPress post or page. On page factors (like browser title, correct bolding techniques and use of the keyword meta...
View ArticleImage Slider, Editing and Resizing with Pixlr
A recent client asked for a little help getting his WordPress post on his Elegant Theme blog looking sharp. His challenge was the images weren’t fitting in the image slider, nice and neat. And since...
View ArticleMyCuisine Theme Custom Tweaks
A reader asked some questions in the comment section of a video I did about installing and setting up Elegant Themes MyCuisine Theme. Since his questions were a good (thanks Robbie!) I decided to make...
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