9 THINGS you didn’t know you could do with your blog
9 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do with Your Blog WPSLC
Sep 01, 2014
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9 THINGSyou didn’t know you could do with your blog
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• WordPress (wordpress.com)
WORDPRESS.COM
Dashboard
REPLACE INSTAGRAM
• Pressgram (pressgr.am)• WordPress iOS app
PRESSGRAM
WORDPRESS FOR iOS
Dashboard New Post
DO A GIVEAWAY
• Rafflecopter
RAFFLECOPTER
RAFFLECOPTER
SCHEDULE YOUR POSTS
• Keep drafts• Editorial Calendar
(wordpress.org/plugins/editorial-calendar)
EDITORIAL CALENDAR
SHARE YOUR POSTS
• Jetpack (wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack)• Social (wordpress.org/plugins/social)• Twitterfeed (twitterfeed.com)• IFTTT (ifttt.com)
JETPACK SHARING
SOCIAL
TWITTERFEED
IFTTT (if this, then that)
INVITE A GUEST BLOGGER
• Link sharing• they link to your blog• you link to their blog
• Use roles to manage permissions/access
• Edit Flow(wordpress.org/plugins/edit-flow)
EDIT FLOW
EDIT FLOW
EDIT FLOW
GIVE YOUR SEO A BOOST
• “Pretty Permalinks”• Include keywords in post titles• WordPress SEO
(wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo)
PRETTY PERMALINKS
INCLUDE KEYWORDS IN POST TITLES
Including a keyword in your post title will help you rank for that topic in search engine results
WORDPRESS SEO
WORDPRESS SEO…does a whole lot more, too
USE TAGS AND CATEGORIES (APPROPRIATELY)• Tags
• keywords• search terms
• Categories• general topics/ideas
“music” is a category“jazz” is a tag
HAVE AN AUTHOR PAGE
• Create an about page• Set up Google authorship
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-get-googles-verified-authorship-for-your-wordpress-blog/http://www.copyblogger.com/wordpress-google-authorship/http://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google-authorship
GOOGLE AUTHORSHIPIt looks like this:
…so of course you want that, right?
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