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Newsletter Gift. Description: Style Tiles is a design deliverable consisting of fonts, colors and interface elements that communicate the essence of a visual brand for the web. Why we use it: Style Tiles lets us easily display style ideas to our clients. Instead of creating an entire webpage every time, we can just display the general theme to our client in a detailed, but not too detailed, framework. With Style Tiles, we simply iterate the Tiles instead of the entire website, streamlining the process, but still resulting in an awe-inspiring end product. Pixel Dropr lets you create, use, and share your pixel collections in an instant. Pixel Dropr allows us to keep track of elements (e.g. icons, buttons, UI kits, photos) through collections, and easily place them into other Photoshop documents.

The IcoMoon App lets you browse and edit thousands of icons and generate icon fonts. IcoMoon is one of the best resources for icon fonts. Font Finder and WhatFont let you easily analyze fonts on a webpage. Beginner's Guide To Wordpress SEO: Keyword Research. We have already established that it all starts and ends with keyword research, right?

Beginner's Guide To Wordpress SEO: Keyword Research

But how do you do it? And what do you do with the keywords you find? That’s what we’ll find out in this chapter of the guide. For some people, keyword research amounts to writing their niche into Google keyword planner, and looking through the related terms. That’s not a very good idea. If I type in “soccer” and ask the Keyword planner for ideas, sure it lists “soccer games” or “soccer balls”, but it doesn’t list “dribbling”, “Messi”, “World Cup 2014″, or any other terms that are very related to the topic. Get Creative With Your Keywords Think outside of the box. Really Know What You Write About Many people who go into a niche with the sole intention of making money, will only have keyword tools to rely on for keywords. Use The Right Kind Of Keywords Let’s take “copywriting” as an example. On the other hand, we have “copywriting coach” with a measly 30 searches per month. Use Keywords In Post/Page Title. 40 Useful Tools to Manage and Grow Your WordPress Blog.

Beginner's Guide To Wordpress SEO: Backlinks, Site Speed & More. In this chapter we deal with backlinks, how to get them, how to improve page loading speed, guest posting, and how to optimize for social shares.

Beginner's Guide To Wordpress SEO: Backlinks, Site Speed & More

So without further adieu, let’s dig into even more about WordPress SEO. Get More Organic Backlinks Backlinks are a bit of a controversial issue. Not whether or not they are improve your rankings, but how you should go about getting them. I will mainly deal with organic backlinks here, meaning, when people link to your content out of their own free will. Something that might be surprising to some, though it shouldn’t be, is that giving genuine shout-outs and linking to articles that you found particularly useful or interesting, can actually be a way to get backlinks. Lastly, cultivating relationships with people who also write about a similar topic, (but typically are not your direct competitors), can be a great way to not only get backlinks. Write Longer Content. How to make WordPress fast with cheap hosting.

WordPress hosting comes in all shapes and sizes and there are lots of players in the market.

How to make WordPress fast with cheap hosting.

Generally how things works is the more you pay for hosting the faster your site is. At least this has been my experience. So a WordPress site hosted on GoDaddy or some other shared host is typically super slow. Where as a site hosted on WPEngine or another managed host are super fast. I’m going to show you how to get those super fast speeds on a cheap WordPress hosting plan. I Feel the Need for Speed We all know that adding CloudFlare can speed up your site. Here’s a video compares of 4 different hosting provider. org = My live site hosted on WPEngine cheap = GoDaddy’s Shared Hosting Plan do = DigitalOcean’s $5 VPS managed = GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress As you can see the cheap GoDaddy hosting plan is the slowest, which is to be expected.

Captain Prepare for Warp Speed.

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Performance settings for WordPress SEO by Yoast Plugin. Last modified: July 16, 2014 Many people ask me to use WordPress SEO by Yoast Plugin or All in One SEO Pack for WordPress.

Performance settings for WordPress SEO by Yoast Plugin

I personally still prefer to use WordPress SEO Plugin by Yoast integrated many powerful features.You May Also Be Interested In: It’s the best plugin to improve SEO score of any WordPress website or blog. Though, setting up this plugin might be tricky and a new blogger or one without basic SEO skills, might find it hard to configure. This article will help install and settings the WordPress SEO by Yoast Plugin becomes extremely simple. Below is some of the SEO features offered by WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin: Titles & MetasSocialXML SitemapsPermalinksInternal LinksRSS After installing the plugin might suggest changing your Permalinks structure, in Dashboard > Settings > Permalinks. Use the Post Name is best for permalink structure: