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How to Effectively Attract and Manage Guest Bloggers in WordPress

Guest Bloggers in WordPress

Guest blogging has become a powerful way to gain exposure. There are tons of articles on the web that talks about how to write a great guest post. However, we had a hard time finding an article that covered publisher’s side of things. What are… Read More »

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Sep 13, 2012
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How to Find a Job Using a WordPress Blog

Need a Job

This is a guest post by Jeszlene Zhou (@jeszlene @firstcommjob) In the new media world, where recruiters are increasingly screening social media profiles and headhunting talents online, a blog gives you control over the online information your potential employers will come across by directing them… Read More »

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Sep 12, 2012
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Categories vs Tags – SEO Best Practices for Sorting your Content

Categories vs Tags - Best Practices for sorting your WordPress Content

One of the most discussed topics we see when attending WordCamps and other events is what’s better for SEO: categories vs tags? What’s the difference between categories and tags? What’s the optimal number of WordPress categories? How many is too many? Is it okay to… Read More »

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Aug 13, 2012
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What is Gravatar and Why You Should Start Using it Right Away

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Often new WordPress users ask us about how the grey icon that shows up next to their name. Sometimes we get emails from users asking us how can they turn this grey thing off. Well this grey icon is known as “mystery man” gravatar. In… Read More »

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Aug 1, 2012
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How to Setup a Professional Email Address with Google Apps and Gmail

Google Apps for Business

This is a guest post by Syed Faizan Ali After purchasing a domain name, the first thing any webmaster would like to do is to setup a branded email address ending with the custom domain name. At WPBeginner, people over and over again ask for… Read More »

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Jul 26, 2012
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How to Turn Off Comments Notifications in WordPress

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Have you received an email from WordPress about a comment notification? We get asked this question a lot from new users. How do we turn off comment notifications in WordPress? WordPress has a built-in feature that notifies the administrator if a comment is posted or… Read More »

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Jul 16, 2012
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Beginner’s Guide to Preventing Blog Content Scraping in WordPress

Guide to Prevent Content Scraping

If you write original content day in and day out, you already are aware of the fact that your posts will end up on bunch of SPAM sites within a few days sometimes even few minutes. Some users even noted that the site with stolen… Read More »

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May 16, 2012
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What, Why, and How-To’s of Trackbacks and Pingbacks in WordPress

Trackbacks and Pingbacks 101

Recently while viewing our Facebook page, we saw one of our users asked a question that we thought we had covered. Unfortunately, we never did. The question was about trackbacks/pingbacks. Here is the question: “Do you have an article or explanation about moderating pingbacks? I… Read More »

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Apr 9, 2012
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15 Most Frequently Asked Questions by WordPress Beginners

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WPBeginner has been helping WordPress beginners since 2009. Over these past years, we have received all levels of questions (some beginner, some advanced). Overtime some questions have been asked over and over again. In this article, we will share most frequently asked questions by WordPress… Read More »

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Mar 12, 2012
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How to Increase Pageviews and Reduce Bounce Rate in WordPress

Data Insights

When starting out, most bloggers believe that it is super hard to get people to your blog. Whereas most expert bloggers think that getting people to your blog is the easy part. Getting the users to stay on your site is harder. Most users come… Read More »

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Jan 23, 2012
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