Including the right trust signals on your blog will boost your traffic, and subsequently your conversions. Visitors often look for certain elements before purchasing a product or service online. If your blog fails to deliver these elements, the visitor may take their business elsewhere (to a competitor's site). So, how can you make your blog more trustworthy?
Professional Web Design
Your website's overall design plays a critical role in its trustworthiness. You can't expect visitors to trust your blog if it uses the default, untouched WordPress theme. Granted, building a custom web desig...
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How To Manage WordPress Comment Spam
Comment spam is something that every WordPress blogger must learn to deal with. I guess you could say it's a badge of honor or sorts, as it means spammers view your blog as being authoritative. But allowing such comments on your site can have a negative impact on its search rankings.
Tell-Tale Signs of Comment Spam:
Username contains keyword instead of an actual name (e.g. buy shoes online, California lawyer, roofing contractors, etc.
Comment is generic and not related to the actual post topic.
Comment contains one or more links to irrelevant pages.
Moderate All New Comments
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5 Reasons Why Your Blog Isn’t Generating Traffic
Can't seem to drive any sizable amount of traffic to your blog? Regardless of its niche/subject, all blogs need to traffic to succeed. Without visitors reading your content, you won't be able to generate sales or produce leads -- and search engines may lower your ranking as a result, adding further heartache to the situation.
#1) CMS Settings
If your blog isn't generating traffic, you should check its visibility settings within your content management system (CMS). In WordPress, access Settings > Reading > and uncheck the box labeled "Discourage search engines from indexing this si...
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Profile: Lisa Casali – ecocucina.org
Lisa Casali's blog, ecocucina, combines her two passions; cooking and the environment. She has found a unique and interesting way to fuse cooking advice with an environmentally friendly approach. On ecocucina Lisa manages to create great images to go with each recipe she shares.
Lisa was able to spend a few minutes discussing ecocucina with me.
"My blog is about how to reduce our environmental impact about food."
The blog was started in 2009 as a way "to sensitize people to eat and cook more sustainably."
What makes ecocucina truly unique is the approach to the ingredients for each...
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9 Blog Post Ideas for Going Viral
Anyone who publishes content on the Internet wants their work to go viral. Going viral means that the content spoke to so many people that they shared it with friends, liked it, commented on it and blogged about it on their own spaces. It's the holy grail for any blogger or content creator. It can be quite difficult to go viral, but there are ways to increase the likelihood that people will like and share your content.
Hosting Your Content vs social media outlets
First, you should start a blog with your favorite hosting company. While you can post to social media outlets, you want a main...
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Choosing a Hosting Service For Your Blog
One of the steps in launching a blog is signing up for a web hosting service. The hosting company will host your blog's files and database, displaying your blog on the Internet for the world to see. But with so many different web hosts out there, ranging in price, service, speed and reliability, how to you know which one to choose?
When you sign up for a web host, you'll have to choose which type of account is right for your needs. The three main types of web hosting accounts are as follows:
Shared – several customers (usually hundreds or thousands) share resources on a single serve...
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Blogging: A Step-By-Step Guide
If you spend time on the Internet, you probably already know how important blogging has become. Businesses rely on their blogs as a way to connect with customers and share information about their product. Authors use blogs to show off their expertise and gain a following. Reporters, chefs, politicians and stay-at-home moms alike can become successful bloggers.
If you want to show off your expertise, build a brand or simply launch a company that you can manage from the comfort of your home, you should start blogging. Running a blog takes some time and dedication, but getting started is easy. I...
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