WordPress Resources

WordPress Resources.

There are a whole load of resources available to help you with your wordpress blogging, so I thought I would list the main resources that are available here as a quick reference.

If you feel I have missed something then please leave a comment and I will add it if necessary.

Thanks!

Mark

http://wordpress.com – Starting point for your free hosted wordpress blog

http://wordpress.org – The place to start for your self hosted wordpress blog

http://www.wordpress.org/support – WordPress support forum for self hosted blogs

http://wordpress.com/forums – WordPress support for free hosted blogs

http://codex.wordpress.org - A great resource! Basically an online manual for wordpress users

http://wordpress.org/development – Here you can access news about wordpress and its development

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins – The wordpress plugin directory. Thousands of plugins listed here

http://wordpress.org/extend/themes – WordPress free theme directory. Once again, thousands to choose from, and a good safe place to get themes without the worry of spyware, viruses etc

5 Great Sources of Linkbait

What is Linkbait?

Linkbait is used to attract traffic to your website or blog. It is content on your site written to entertain anger or educate your readers. If these articles are well written and create a reaction then you will create a buzz that spreads through the internet virally from one site to another producing links and comments about what you have written. The search engine spiders then follow these links back to your site and hey presto! Your ranking improves.

Here are 5 different types of linkbait which will bring links and visitors pouring back to your site:

  1. Argument and Debate. Have a rant about something (or someone) in a really negative fashion and you will invite a whole load of attention to your site. People will argue with you, call you names, agree with you, support you…everything! It doesn’t matter because the attention is there, the comments will flow and you will be attracting plenty of links. Great Linkbait!
  2. News. Write about what is happening now in the world. Both with the internet and the world in general. If you keep up with breaking news, even a short blog post will produce links to your sites.
  3. Knowledge. This is always a good one. If you pen information and articles that educate people then you will always get a good response. People are hungry for knowledge.
  4. Make them laugh. A bit of humour goes a long way. Keep it brief, remember ‘Brevity is the soul of Wit’. But funny stories, anecdotes, videos and cartoons will keep people coming back to your site.
  5. Resource. Build a good resource list and viewers will link to it. A resource list can be incredibly useful for someone involved in your specific niche and will become a reference for them. This is probably one of the best forms of linkbait that you can have. A niche specific list of resources is invaluable and will generate far more links and traffic than your other pages of content, no matter how good that may be.

So keep these 5 points in mind, or better still link to this page, and you can start building your own linkbait straight away!

Thanks

Mark

WordPress Widgets

Hi…just wanted to share a very quick video showing you how to add a wordpress widget into your sidebar.

Note, this is a very basic video for beginners only.

Thanks!

Mark

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