WordPress Tags and SEO (Why You Should Not Use Them)

WordPress Tags and SEO

WordPress Tags, some love them and others strongly dislike them. I belong to the second group, but I’m not against using tags.

When I started blogging, I used to create multiple random tags each time I published a new blog post. As I got older and wiser, I’ve learnt to step away from using WordPress tags.

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How to Speed up Your WordPress Blog with a3 Lazy Load

How to use the a3 Lazy Load Plugin

I personally don’t stress about page speed as a ranking factor at all, but I do care about user experience. And a good way to improve user experience is by lazy loading the images on your website.

By far the best WordPress plugin to lazy load images is a3 Lazy Load. In this article I am going to show you how you can configure this plugin in 5 minutes and have a faster loading website straight away.

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Is Blogging Still Worth It? 8 Important Things to Keep in Mind

Is blogging still worth it?

Is blogging still worth it today? Is it still a viable business model, or is it a waste of time? Read on, as I share my real-life experience.

Not too long ago, blogging was a bit like maintaining an online diary. Bloggers would write stories about their daily lives and share them with their friends and relatives.

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11 Ways to Be More Productive When Working From Home as a Blogger

How to stay productive when working from home

Working from home sounds like the ultimate dream for many of us. No boss or annoying colleagues around, no stressful commute or ugly corporate uniform. Sounds like you’ve made it, right?

If working from home is your dream, you’ve still got to finance it, and that means getting some serious work done. To help you on your path, I have put together my top 11 tips to be and stay productive when working from home.

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10 Blogging Mistakes That Can Harm Your SEO

Blogging mistakes that can harm your SEO

Blogging is difficult and time consuming, it really is.

Not only is there a lot of work involved in getting good quality content published on a regular basis, you also need to work hard to keep both your readers AND the search engines happy.

I’ve made my fair share of blogging mistakes over the years. But that’s okay, because making mistakes is the only way to learn and move forward.

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WordPress Category Pages and SEO (How to Optimize Categories)

WordPress category pages and SEO

Perhaps one of the most neglected parts of WordPress blogs is the good old category page. Whenever you navigate to a category page within a blog or website, chances are it’s not much more than a list of the latest blog posts within that category.

And worse, often the title of that category page is something along the lines of “Category Name Archives”.

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Thrive Themes Review (5 Reasons to Make the Switch)

Thrive Themes review

Having used several Thrive Themes products for my websites over the years, I thought it would be good to write a review about their WordPress themes, page builders, and plugins.

I can honestly say that discovering Thrive Themes several years ago was a turning point in my online business. Things have evolved since then, but I am still a happy user of various Thrive products.

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10 Best WordPress Blogging Tools for Beginners and Pros

Best WordPress blogging tools for beginners and pros

The Internet is overcrowded with WordPress blogging tools, services, and other goodies designed to make your life as a blogger easier.

I’ve used (and paid for) many tools over the years, and I now know what works for me and what doesn’t. The below blogging tools are those that I use on a regular basis, or are tools that I have happily used in the past.

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How to Share a Tweet (X Post) on Facebook

How to share a Tweet (X Post) on Facebook

Editor’s note: Twitter is now called X and a Tweet is now called a Post. However, to keep things simple, we’re still using the old terminology in this how-to guide.

Ever wanted to share a Tweet on your Facebook timeline or on your Facebook page, and you couldn’t work out how to do it? One would be forgiven for thinking this is an easy thing to do, but it’s actually not all that straightforward.

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