WordPress Hosting: Managed vs Shared

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Web hosting is a necessity for any business. Understanding what kind of hosting service you need is crucial to having a website that achieves your goals. The type of hosting service you purchase will depend on a few factors. If you are wondering whether you need shared or managed WordPress hosting, then you have come to the right place.

Choosing the right type of service can make all the difference. Imagine having a site that takes forever to load, or is frequently crashing. Also what if you end up paying too much for hosting because you are buying features that your site just doesn’t need or isn’t capable of utilizing. These problems are directly related to your web hosting. Read on to find out more which one is right for you.

Before we take a look at the pros and cons of hosting plans, let’s take a look at what each service has to offer. Right off the bat you will notice that shared hosting is much less expensive. Shared host has all the basics that people need to run a minimal website. Many different companies that offer shared hosting for WordPress websites at affordable prices. If you are a beginner, shared hosting usually makes the most sense, but not always. Many times as a website develops or traffic increases, you need to upgrade your service.

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How to Avoid Google Penalization

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Sharing your content and optimizing your website for search engines are the best ways to attract visitors to your site. It’s important to incorporate all major search engines into your optimization strategy, not just Google. Yahoo, Bing and social networks like Tumblr and Facebook also have powerful search engines.

If you only focused on Google you’d be ignoring a large portion of the market. Nevertheless Google has grown to become the biggest player in the game when it comes to search engines. Having a high ranking on Google search can be one of the most valuable marketing assets for your website.

You’ve heard the saying, “The best way to hide a dead body is on the 2nd page of Google’s search results.” While we shouldn’t take this saying literally, we should take this message to heart. Ranking on the first page of Google can draw an enormous amount of traffic to your WordPress site. Read more →

Security and Maintenance for WordPress

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WordPress is one of the most comprehensive content management systems today. In 2014, there were over 74 million websites running on WordPress. At its core, WordPress CMS is stable and secure but the fact that WordPress is so popular makes it a target for hackers. Having a good security strategy can prevents attacks from even the worst script kiddies, spammers, trolls, trackers and hackers of all kind. Securing your website is a critical part of developing it. You also need strong security to gain trust and confidence from your visitors as well as boost your website search ranking.

I’ve found the best way to keep on top of things is to do a security audit once a month so make sure your site is airtight. I mean, what are Sundays for right? During the audit you will need to ensure that your user accounts have stong passwords and follow some general safety rules. The version of WordPress you installed is usually displayed in your header. You can opt to hide this information from hackers that can use this information to exploit your site.

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10 Winning WordPress Social Media Strategies

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Nowadays any 6 year old can tell you what Facebook, Instagram or Twitter is. Today’s workforce grew up alongside the modern web. They are expert users who intuitively navigate the internet having been connected the majority of their lives. Just about everyone is on some sort of social media platform for shopping, dating, sharing, connecting with friends or networking. We all know that social media has had a tremendous value and impact in modern society. Just how valuable is it? And how can you leverage social media to help gain more visibility?

Social media sites connect people that share common interests. Since the advent of social sharing sites, many causes have been won and addressed thanks to grassroots campaigns that started with nothing more than a single Facebook page. Many of today’s largest global political and social movements such as the Arab Spring can be largely attributed power of sharing through social media. Facebook alone has transformed from a place to connect with friends into an all-purpose boon to find jobs, advertise products, and push political agendas among other things. Juggernauts like Facebook and Twitter are here to stay so it’s important that you understand how to leverage these powerful marketing channels.

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Best Premium WordPress Themes of July 2015

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There are hundreds of different WordPress themes out there designed to build professional websites with stunning displays. Every month developers churn out new themes for WordPress users to try out. You can use themes to save time and money. Most themes are pretty easy to use and feature a lot of the same tools. It’s also a cost effective way to quickly get your site off the ground and running.

A lot of the differences you’ll find within themes of the same category lie in their unique design templates and customization options. Not all themes are created equal, some fall flat, and some rise to the top. Sometimes it can be hard to know where to start since there are so many different themes. When you are a trying to run a creative business, magazine site, showcase your portfolio or put up a beautiful blog, you’ll want your website to match your sensibilities. We focused this article on themes that are designed to help you build you’re a professional looking creative website that looks stunning. We’ve chosen 9 of the best new themes for WordPress that came out in July 2015. I’m sure you’ll find at least one that will stir your imagination and let you showcase your unique artistic perspective.

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SEO Basics for WordPress

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WordPress is hands down one of the best content management systems for SEO. A lot of people see spending the time required to get good search engine visibility as time wasted. Nothing could be further from the truth. Optimizing your site takes diligence and hard work, but it will definitely pay off. Using the tips offered in this article can help you optimize your WordPress site to gain more subscribers and improve your website. We think that good SEO should be an integral part of your online strategy. Checkout these WordPress plugins to help manage your SEO strategy.

Search engine web crawlers, also known as spiders, don’t spend a whole lot of time on your website. The web crawlers of today comb through your site and collect content, ignoring your meticulously placed CSS and HTML style elements. To begin with, it’s a good idea to pick a theme that places content at the top of the page. Most search engines will not scan past the first half of your page. There are just way too many pages to index and a third of a page is usually enough to get an idea of what a website is all about.

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Avada Review — Best-Selling WordPress Theme of All Time

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Avada is one of the top selling themes of all-time on the biggest WordPress theme marketplace on the planet. This multi-purpose theme for WordPress has everything. You can use it to build a number of different style sites and pages. This easily is one of the most extensive WordPress themes ever created. Versitile is the keyword here. Build a single page site for your mobile app, or an entire directory site. You can really do just about anything with Avada.

Avada’s demo does an amazing job of building a website without the need of a developer. You don’t need any PHP knowledge or coding skills at all to get professional results. Fool your friends and tell them you designed it from scratch. Actually you probably shouldn’t do that, but you will feel like a full-fledged designer once you figure out how to use Avada for it’s full potential. I’ve heard that just about anyone can build a fully customized WordPress website that looks and functions great. We put that idea to the test and tried this theme out to see if it lived up to its promise.

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Choosing the Right Web Host for WordPress

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Choosing a web host is one of the first things you should consider when you start building a website. To make your website available on the web, you will need a space to put it. Your web host provider will supply this space for you. Your host will store all your site files and the traffic you’ve received. Web hosts also offer other services such as security, technical support, email, FTP access, domain name registration and more.

Many people who are starting out often overlook how critical it is to find the right web hosting service. Finding the best host for your needs can help your search engine visibility and bring more traffic to your site. There are a variety of options available for WordPress hosting. In this article we’ll help you choose the best host for your WordPress website. Our goal is to give a basic guide of what you should look for in a web host, and the things you should consider before deciding on a host provider. We’ll also share a list of some of the most popular WordPress host providers.

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Flow-Flow: Social Streams Plugin Review

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Let’s face it, sometimes it can be a mess trying to centralize all your social feeds in one place. I have enough problems keeping track of my growing list of email and user accounts. That’s why I’m always glad to find apps that help me organize my workflow. Flow-Flow: Social Streams does just that. It lets you collect and display social media content from your favorite social network. This premium WordPress plugin makes it easy to build an incredibly powerful social hub. Flow-Flow has the capability to handle multiple feeds and multiple users in a single network. Mix and match any combination of social feeds you’d like. The possibilities are unlimited.

For instance, you could have 5 different twitter feeds and 4 Google+ feeds in a single stream. Flow-Flow displays social feeds in a beautiful responsive grid, that is easy to customize and simple to install. Filter add and remove streams easily inside the editor. There are many web services that charge recurring fees for similar functionality. Create an awesome social media hub on your site without the monthly fees. Link any RSS to your website and expand your audience. Flow-Flow is a money saver and a money maker.

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Launch a Self Hosted WordPress Blog

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WordPress is a great starting point for any type of blog and is one of the most popular CMS solutions for a reason. It’s one of the most inexpensive ways to build a platform and you can customize just about every aspect of your site. Beginners can easily post videos and share content without any knowledge of PHP or HTML. You also won’t have to worry about hosting costs, updates, downtime or cache problems.

Another huge plus is access to the WordPress community, which provide bloggers with a torrent of online support from all over the world. Most people start blogging with the free version of WordPress. If you are at the point where you want more flexibility and options for customizing your site, you may want to purchase host space from a provider.

One of the easiest ways to use the full potential of your online presence is to create a self-hosted WordPress blog. You can create more traffic to generate a buzz or make some money. This is an easy and inexpensive way to attract the right kind of traffic, and monetize your site. The good news for newbies, novices and all kinds of beginners is that launching your own self hosted blog is really easy.

You don’t have to be too tech saavy to setup your own self hosted blog or site, and there are many tools that can help make things even easier. If you can drag and drop, and you have a bit of knowledge of FTP, you can easily create a self-hosted site with plenty of potential. All you really need is a few bucks a month and a bit of time to learn the basics of installing and setting up your page. Common site files are .jpg pictures, .mp3 music files, and .mp4 video files.

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