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VEGAS

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VIDEOSTUDIO PRO

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VPAINT

WEB

WILDFIRE

WINMORPH

WORDPRESS

WRIKE

WRITING and PUBLISHING

YOUTUBE

ZAXWORKS

ZOOM

VEGAS

CUTTING-EDGE VIDEO PRODUCTIONFaster. More creative. Endless possibilities.

The VEGAS range of creative software is all you need for fast, professional and efficient video production, and brings a whole new level of creative freedom to your editing and post production. VEGAS delivers fantastic results and allows everyone – from every day enthusiasts to busy professionals – to focus on creativity without limits.

VICON

BOUJOU  Matchmoving software that enables you to add computer generated effects seamlessly into film or video footage.

VIDEOSTUDIO PRO

Live life and make movies with award-winning video editing software  VideoStudio takes ease of use and creativity one step further, with the addition of new smart movie tools, enhanced masking and color grading, and workflow improvements. Dive into new premium effects and edit 4K, HD, 360 video editing, with full the full suite of creative editing tools. Turn memories into movies with VideoStudio.

MOTION STUDIO 3D was ULEAD COOL 3D  a great graphics editor for creating high-impact 3D images. With it Cool 3D users had the capability to create 3D still images, animations, and videos with few resources. The final version, Ulead Cool 3D 3.5 was released in 2001 with tons of amazing features like customizing 3D arts instantly, more input and output options, and much more. This very light yet powerful application turned a personal computer into a 3D machine like none other! After Corel acquired Ulead systems, Cool 3D was discontinued. Corel’s MotionStudio 3D is the current successor of Cool 3D. MotionStudio 3D retained all the features of Cool 3D and even offers more advanced functions to create 3D contents with ease.

VIMEO

Announcing our Best of Year winners

VIMEO RECORD

A new tool that lets you record your screen, your webcam, or both at once. It’s free. It’s unlimited. It’s the best way to send video messages since…well, ever.

Easily Make Videos Online

How KevOnStage is building a better entertainment industry

How to make an interactive video on Vimeo

Everything you need to know about Digital Asset Management (DAM)

Meet our free screen recorder

Video Matters

Video transcriptions Fully automated

Create high-impact social videos in an instant

9 tips to upgrade your webcam light setup

BRANDED CONTENT VIDEOS

Here’s how to game the TikTok “For You” page

How to build customer loyalty with video

6 online security tips to keep your accounts on lock

3 inspiring interactive video examples from the Vimeo community

KonMari’s guide to creating an online course that sparks joy

Marketers, here’s how to crack the Instagram algorithm in 2022

3 (research-backed) tips to produce a webinar people will actually watch

How to turn your videos into GIFs in Vimeo, Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro, and more

Just your speed: Adjust video playback with a click

There’s no “I” in VMEO

Seven Black filmmakers capture perspectives from behind the counters of their favorite neighborhood spots

Unlock the power of video for every team member with Video Library

Choose from our video templates. Customize it with text & images, set style, music and ratio

Cinema-grade video for all: Vimeo supports Dolby Vision for Apple devices

Reach more people (and sell more stuff) with TikTok ads from Vimeo Create

How William Kaven Architecture is lowering cost per click by nearly 50% with video

Connect your Constant Contact account with Vimeo

How this documentary helped raise $170K for America’s first Black-owned outdoor shop

That’s a wrap! Our unofficial 2022 jury awards at Sundance Film Festival

The easiest video maker. Ever.

Create high-impact social videos in an instant

Seven Black filmmakers capture perspectives from behind the counters of their favorite neighborhood spots

How to turn your videos into GIFs

Create high-impact social videos in an instant

Video lighting tips and tricks for your next at-home shoot

Meet the minds behind your favorite brand video campaigns

Introducing Opus, a powerful new audio codec

Video messaging for teams

Video Matters

The only content calendar you’ll need in 2021

Create high-impact social videos in an instant

How effective is video advertising? 5 reasons to add it to your toolkit

Use custom video templates to find the right story for your business.

Create high-impact social videos.

How to use video to stay in touch with your customers

The film community adapts amidst festival and premiere cancelations

4 things you can do to support small businesses during the Coronavirus crisis

3 ways to get more out of video review

From endorphins to indoor-phins: Fitness brands are using video to keep their communities moving

8 tips to increase engagement on your videos

You know the drill. Choose a unique concept, make a shiny new video, then post it on social. But how do you make sure your people actually engaging with your latest project? The good news is, if you’re posting video at all, you’re already ahead of the game. In a recent study that asked marketers to compare engagement rates between images and videos, 59% found that video drove the most engagement on Facebook. (A marketer in the same study saw a 47% jump in CTR with video ads compared to static ads. Dang.)

5 innovative ad formats to inspire your next video

Impactful video ads meet people where they are. So it’s important to make them easy to grasp, aesthetically pleasing, and geared to the social platforms we interact with every day.  Creating a quality video ad with a micro-crew (even on a micro-budget) is easier — and more of a necessity — than ever. But remember: it’s a battleground of digital content out there. Your ad has to stand out. 

This plant company is proving the power of eCommerce video

There aren’t many direct-to-consumer brands shipping products that live and breathe. Which is why Bloomscape, an eCommerce houseplant shop based in Michigan, has such a unique responsibility. Founded in 2017 by Justin Mast, a fifth-generation horticulturist, Bloomscape is turning that responsibility into an enormous asset through the power of storytelling. The company continuously delights its customers (aka “plant parents”) with cheerful, high-quality videos, ranging from plant care education to sunny tours of the company greenhouse. 

Artsy is using video to tell artists’ stories in innovative ways

Artsy is an online marketplace that houses much of the world’s art for potential buyers and collectors. “We’re the connector between the commercial entity and the buyer,” said Marina Cashdan, Artsy’s VP of Editorial, Brand, and Creative. Since 2009, Artsy has been making art easier to purchase (and understand) for the average person. And for the last few years, Artsy has also been telling powerful stories about art and the artists behind the work

How to stay connected with your audience, even at a distance

Now more than ever, staying in touch with your customers is critical. To help ease some of those challenges, we’ve produced 100 new Vimeo Create templates, designed specifically for small businesses dedicated to staying connected and engaged with their customers.

Vimeo Video School

Make better videos with tips from the Vimeo team, industry leaders, and friendly faces from the community. For step-by-step lessons, visit our blog: https://vimeo.com/blog/category/video-school/

7 unexpected ways video is bringing people together right now

Video has always been a hugely popular way to connect with audiences, and now it’s helping people connect in new and unexpected ways. Here are seven ways that people around the globe are using video to connect with students, employees, audiences, and each other.

9 types of videos you can make with Vimeo Create

“What video should I make for my business?” This is the question marketers, entrepreneurs, and emerging brands know all too well. The continuous need for fresh content (especially for social) can get overwhelming. But fear not! We’ve gathered a list of our favorite types of videos you can create with Vimeo — and why you should use them.

7 ways to optimize your educational content

Online education is on the rise. And not just with online universities and institutions, online educational content is now a popular way to discover and learn about a vast array of subjects. Whether it be academic, hobbies or other life skills, there are tons of avenues for creating online educational content that can be both fun and lucrative.

Easy navigation for your videos with Chapters

As content creators, you want to make it easy for your viewers to enjoy your videos. Helping them find relevant content fast not only saves them valuable time but allows them to return to those key moments in your videos.

3 updates to our video analytics features

One of the great rewards of making video is knowing that your audience is engaging with the content you’re creating. But beyond some creative intuition and guesswork, it’s tough to dig into precisely where your videos are most successful, and, alternately, where you’re losing viewers. Analytics are our answer to helping you identify how to improve your videos and reach even more people.

Meet Nicolas Heller, the unofficial talent scout of NYC

From the moment you start watching one of Nicolas Heller’s videos, whether here on Vimeo or on Instagram (where his 220K+ followers know him as “New York Nico”), it’s clear he’s got a knack for tracking down compelling characters. It’s fitting, then, that he’s taken up the role of ‘unofficial talent scout of New York City,’ putting the spotlight on regular people he meets on the street — and earning a name for himself in the process.

Work moves in real time.  Video keeps you ahead.

Vimeo’s enterprise tools give you the power to connect your team wherever they are. Get flawless, secure, live streaming for your all-hands, trainings, and everything in between.

5 ways Vimeo can help get your videos into the world

So you’ve made an awesome video; now, you need a plan to get it in front of as many eyeballs as possible. The good news? Vimeo can help. Read on for five ways our tools will help you distribute your videos near and far. Then upgrade — if you haven’t already!

Indie animator Daniela Sherer on developing your own style

From the moment she took her first animation course as an undergrad at USC, Daniela Sherer was hooked. “I was immediately like, I have to take more classes like this,” she recalls with a smile.  Since then, she’s honed her craft further, earning a Masters in animation from Royal College of Art and creating an impressive portfolio that includes music videos, independent films, and a long list of commissions for clients like NPR, Cartoon Network, and Harvard – to name a few.

The future of Real Estate is video

When Danielle Lurie got her real estate license, her goal was make enough money to funnel into her true passion—film. In 2005, Danielle’s short In The Morning premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, and won nine film festivals including ‘Best Narrative Short’ at the Nashville Film Festival. In 2011, her short Intuition was selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick. At the time, she chose to keep her dual careers as a filmmaker and rising star in New York City’s real estate industry completely separate. But three years ago, after joining Compass and forming her all-women, eponymous team, Danielle began shooting short drone videos to promote her listings and popular neighborhoods. Allowing her experiences as a filmmaker and an agent to inform each other has led to unexpected success. “When you work in real estate, you tell a love story about the city that you live in, and a story about the notion of home in general,” Danielle explains. “I’m really excited to bring renegade filmmaking to real estate.”

VPAINT

VPaint is an experimental vector graphics editor based on the Vector Animation Complex (VAC), a technology developed by a collaboration of researchers at Inria and the University of British Columbia, featured at SIGGRAPH 2015. It allows you to create resolution-independent illustrations and animations using innovative techniques.

CG CHANNEL   Check out neat free 2D animation package VPaint

WEB

Image SEO: How to Optimize Images For Search Engines

This guide will talk about how to optimize your images for maximum search engine visibility.

The Best 22 Online Quiz Makers for Boosting User Engagement in 2023

Celebrating the World Wide Web

WWW Day was celebrated on the 1st of August in recognition of its creator in 1989 – Tim Berners-Lee. Nowadays it’s impossible to imagine what life would be like without the internet and the WWW. In fact, today there are currently 4.39 billion internet users world-wide, and this got us thinking about the wonders of the world-wide web (WWW) and how it has changed and influenced us over the years.

WEBMASTER HELP

Before you actually start building your database scripts, you must have a database to place information into and read it from. In this section I will show you how to create a database in MySQL and prepare it for the data. I will also begin to show you how to create the contacts management database.

DRUPAL

To set your organisation apart, you need to create an immersive digital experience for your customers, centered around your website. Working with marketing automation, social media, SEO, content marketing and emerging technologies, you need a joined-up solution to drive customer engagement with your brand.

INTRIGUING WEBSITES TO PASS THE TIME ON

There’s a lot of content out there on the ‘net and there’s no denying it can hinder our productivity.

SHOPIFY whether you sell online, on social media, in store, or out of the trunk of your car, Shopify has you covered.

NGROK  ngrok exposes local servers behind NATs and firewalls to the public internet over secure tunnels.

How it works

You download and run a program on your machine and provide it the port of a network service, usually a web server.  It connects to the ngrok cloud service which accepts traffic on a public address and relays that traffic through to the ngrok process running on your machine and then on to the local address you specified.

What it’s good for

  • Demoing web sites without deploying
  • Building webhook consumers on your dev machine
  • Testing mobile apps connected to your locally running backend
  • Stable addresses for your connected devices that are deployed in the field
  • Running personal cloud services from your home

NO DNS I/O  Many thousands of developers and web designers around the world use NoDNS I/O to create website sneak peek. Each hour previews are generated from sites hosted on various platforms such as Cpanel and Plesk.
Many theme authors use our certification logo to promote their themes.

TUMULT HYPE  create beautiful HTML5 web content. Interactive web content and animations made with Tumult Hype work on desktops, smartphones and iPads. No coding required.

NETVIRTUE  Web Hosting  100% Australian owned.  Net Virtue is a leading web solution provider comprised of dedicated people with a passion for delivering an affordable and reliable web solution.

Whois are public databases which allow to visualize all details about a domain name. Search domain name registrations, view domain name owners and full registration details.  They are published and updated by each extension’s registry.

10 Tips for Getting Started on a Web Design Project  Getting started on a web design project can be intimidating. There are a lot of moving parts, and clients tend to expect high quality. Goal identification, scope definition, sitemap and wireframe creation, content creation, UI design, testing the site, these are all the elements that the web design process most commonly includes.

Designing a Small Business Website: Wants vs Needs  Let me start off by saying something that might not sit well with everybody. Namely, designing a quality small business website is not about making the thing pretty. Nor is it about agreeing with every single idea that the client brings to the table.

For In-depth Research Problems found a very Simple Solution! Dunia!

I have been in the online media space for one and half decades. What always bugged me from the start is, how difficult it is to gain access to authentic information from good sources in the World Wide Web. Even today that is! Search (SERP) results are decided by AI Algorithms and SEO, so effectively, we the people of the world, miss out on good content from good sources which are not SERP optimized.

To tackle this problem, I decided to create this universal Research Gateway called “Dunia”. Dunia means “The World”/”The Universe” in Hindi. At “Dunia”, you can access the top resources by searching directly side by side, and then compare the results. Like say Wikipedia or TED or say Britannica and many vertical resources you can search like that. What more, you can actually search the resources from the same page in an organised manner. So please take www.Dunia.co for a test drive! Check out how efficient it can make you in your online research objectives! The best part about Dunia is, it’s not AI driven. Fortunately!

I have personally made a choice for each resource that I have included at Dunia. And now I can search them side by side. This is where my research starts everyday now. And I am willing share my research tool with you for Free 🙂! Enjoy!

Looking for inspiration?   Check out these simple yet stunning web designs from the “most appreciated” artists on Behance.

MAKE IT 2017 – Jamie Ragen – Reinventing Your Digital Design Process in Adobe XD

WILDFORM

Prior to Reading Kingdom, I founded Wildform, an award-winning video, presentation and animation software company that created dozens of consumer products for Windows & Mac in the US, Asia and Europe as well as cloud-based software. Wildform created Flix, the first Flash video encoding software which revolutionized the web video landscape. I sold the Flix product line to On2 Technologies which was subsequently acquired by Google. As part of On2’s acquisition by Google, Wildform, working with Google, released the first video encoder that used the new WebM video format. In addition to creating consumer software, I also licensed Wildform’s technology to leading companies such as Sony, Quark, Autodesk, and Adobe.

WINMORPH

WinMorph is a high performance morphing and warping software. With over a million downloads and much more distributed through PC magazines and their CDROMs, WinMorph enjoys a very wide userbase, have been used in movies, roadshows and other projects.

Freeware: Distributed as freeware for business or personal use. However if you want to redistribute, you need to inform the author.

Platform: Available only on Windows.

WORDPRESS

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We’re here to help you get your website up and running. Join us Monday through Friday for free daily webinars brought to you by WordPress.com experts. Our sessions cover Making Money, Website Building 101, WooCommerce 101, and Blogging.

Quick Start: Making Money

How to Build a Website From Scratch With WordPress.com in 10 Steps

Four Things You Might Not Know About the Block Editor

Five Great Block-Based WordPress Themes You Should Try

Rank Math Review: Is It the Best WordPress SEO Plugin?

Learn How to Take Online Reservations With WordPress Blocks

From Cooking to Cash: How to Earn Money as a Food Blogger

Tips to Improve Your Site’s UX in 2022

3 Easy Ways to Place Images Next to Text in the Block Editor

How to Create Your Own WordPress Staging Site

WooCommerce Email Marketing Guide: How to Grow Your Store With MailPoet

As a WooCommerce store owner, you probably know that email marketing is important. It gives you a chance to connect with your customers on your own terms and without needing to pay for ads on platforms such as Facebook and Google.

Twelve (+) Tips To Explode Holiday Sales

So how can you take advantage of this upswing in the market and generate more sales for your business?

Six Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog During the Holidays

The holiday season is upon us. From now through the new year, everyone will be thinking about gifts, get-togethers, and good times. This is the perfect time for you to bring in more traffic to your blog. After all, the holiday season is one of the busiest times on the Internet. 

Complete Guide: 8 Strategies to Monetize your Blog

A recent study conducted by Growth Badger revealed that making money was the most common reason for starting a blog. As many as two-thirds of bloggers surveyed said monetization was their primary motivation for blogging.

Gutenberg Block Plugins: Compared

Does this sound at all familiar? You’ve begun the process of designing an amazing WordPress website, and it’s really coming together nicely. Nevertheless, you have one specific layout in mind for a section of a page, and you aren’t sure how to achieve that with the core Gutenberg blocks. That’s the moment you realize that adding an advanced Gutenberg block plugin to your site can help you create that state-of-the-art layout you’ve imagined.

Get Your eCommerce Site Ready for Black Friday and Cyber Monday

It’s no secret that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are increasingly becoming two of the most important online shopping days of the year. In 2020, Black Friday resulted in over $9 billion in sales in the US alone, which is an increase of 22% compared to the year before. 

No-Code WordPress Post Grid Layout Methods

We’ll start with some quick example use cases for these types of grids. Then, we’ll show you two built-in features for grid layouts and seven free WordPress plugins to display posts in a grid.

Site Structure Planning: Build Your Website For Success

When you start to build a website, it can be tempting to just jump in and add content right away. Getting started with a website builder is exciting, and you probably can’t wait to begin sharing content with the world. We understand and actually encourage adding content immediately because we know that your motivation feeds off of your initial excitement. 

What’s New in the Block Editor: New Page Layout Picker, Better Block Transformation Options, and More

Page layouts are pre-designed templates that make creating beautiful pages a breeze. In this update we focused on improving the layout picker, making it easier to quickly browse different categories and select your layout.

What is localhost, and why is it useful for WordPress?

In the context of a network, localhost refers to the specific computer you’re working on right now. So, rather than your computer trying to find content, images, and other things by going through the internet and back, localhost tells it to look directly at itself, i.e., the local machine.

Introducing new Stats widgets for iPhone

You may already know that WordPress mobile apps are the easiest way to manage your WordPress site any time, anywhere.  Helpful features in the apps include our Stats widgets, which make it simple to keep an eye on your site’s activity without even opening the app. We recently rebuilt our widgets for iOS 14, and we’re happy to announce that they’re available now in WordPress 16.9.

WordPress.com Design Update for a More Intuitive Experience

We’re excited to tell you more about WordPress.com’s new navigation experience. The update makes managing your entire site more intuitive and creates consistency across all parts of WordPress.com. This update also allows you all to take advantage of the wider WordPress open source community, creating the same admin menu as WordPress.org that you see referenced in lots of documentation and tutorials.

Turn Your WordPress.com Blog into a Podcast with Anchor

If you’re a blogger, you’ve already done the hard part by creating great content — so you should share that content as widely as possible! One way is by giving your audience an audio option, as well as your written blog.

How to Do a Website Speed Test

If you run a WordPress website – either for yourself or a client – it’s important to regularly run website speed tests.

Website speed is a significant ranking factor in Google’s algorithm which means that the faster your site is, the better it will rank in SERPs. This means that website speed is important for SEO. Aside from that, website speed also impacts the user experience your site delivers. People are more likely to stay on your website if the pages and blog posts on it load fast.

Build a Beautiful Site in the WordPress Mobile Apps with Predesigned Page Layouts

Your WordPress mobile app is a convenient way to create and manage your WordPress site. Now, you can design a new page right from your phone or tablet — and build the site of your dreams — with predesigned page layouts.

How to Create an Online Portfolio (Complete Guide)

If you’re a photographer, writer, or creative, having an online portfolio is a must-have to show off your work. When building your online portfolio, if you use WordPress.com – the world’s largest, free, online site-building platform – you’ll be able to use your custom domain name and build your brand exactly the way you want. Showcasing your work to the public means making the impression you want to make, on your terms. By presenting your most important freelance articles, social media campaigns, e-commerce shop designs, journalistic photos, wedding videos, or whatever it is you specialize in, you’ll attract the potential clients, customers and fans you deserve. 

Building Single-Page Websites on WordPress.com

WordPress.com supports a wide range of features for building your online presence: blogs, online stores, newsletter signup forms, and more. These tools are invaluable for many customers, but they can seem excessive for folks who are just looking to create a straightforward single-page website. If that’s you, read on for examples of how you can also create one-page websites here on WordPress.com. 

How to Engage in Cultural Conversation as a Brand

In today’s digital world, many cultural events — positive or negative — quickly become topics online. In fact, 73 percent of consumers say that major news finds them even when they’re not looking for it, according to MediaPost.

You may be interested in joining this type of cultural conversation on social media or your blog to increase brand awareness for your business. However, there are a number of best practices you should follow when participating in potentially controversial conversations. Otherwise, you may risk alienating some of your fans and bringing negative attention to your brand.

A New Way to Publish Your Blog Posts Simultaneously as Twitter Threads

Share your entire WordPress blog post as Twitter thread–every word, image, and video will be carried over to the social media platform. It’s never been easier to amplify the reach and engagement of your content beyond WordPress.

Deepen Engagement on Your Website with Loom Video Embeds

WordPress.com allows you to embed videos onto any page or post of your website within seconds. Whatever type of content you have on your website, you can deepen engagement with video from YouTube, TikTok, DailyMotion, Vimeo, or your own video file uploads. And as of this week, you can now embed Loom videos.

Split Testing Explained: How to Improve Your Website Design

Split testing can be a great way to improve your website design with the help of your visitors. In this post, we’ll show you how to split test your new design.

A Look at How We Updated Fonts on WordPress.com

We recently updated WordPress.com’s fonts and wanted to give you a behind-the-scenes look at how we chose the list. Here’s an example of a few of them in use.

11 Signs It’s Time to Update Your Site Design

Your website has the potential to be your most valuable marketing asset. And site design, in particular, has a significant impact on your marketing metrics and user experience. Slow page load times, a confusing menu, and missing functionality won’t do your small business any favors. If your website design is standing in the way of marketing results, it may be time to refresh your design.

Best WordPress.com Translation Plugins and How to Use Them

Want to add content in a second language to your website? If so, WordPress.com translation plugins are something you should investigate.  In this article, we explain why multilingual websites are valuable and show you the steps to turn your website into one. Most importantly, we list the best WordPress.com translation plugins out there.

How to Create a Custom Report in Google Analytics

Google Analytics is an essential integration for any website. The sooner you install the JavaScript tracking code, the sooner you’ll have access to interesting data insights about your visitors and how they use your website.

P2ing is the new working

Automattic is an office-less, globally distributed company, and P2 is our lifeblood. We built it to give everyone a place to see all of their projects and files, collaborate transparently, and to do it all without constant distractions.

What Does Your Website Color Scheme Tell Your Audience?

Your website is a landing page for your online audience, and it tells a story about your identity and your purpose. And believe it or not, different color schemes on your site can portray varying levels of professionalism, friendliness, openness, and more. So, what does your website’s color scheme say about you?

Starting Your Own Podcast on WordPress.com

I am very inspired by creative podcasts. Entertaining guests and the unscripted nature of the conversations make me feel like I am right there, chatting about world affairs or the deep societal transformations of the connected age. I decided to start my own show with a group of friends  — loosely about blogging, but delving into all sorts of things.  It took three hours, with a total cost of $5/month, including our own domain name. In this post, I’ll share my journey of launching a brand-new podcast on WordPress.com, and later promoting it on iTunes and Spotify.

The Best Way to Host Video on Your Website

Videos are a powerful form of communication. They’re attention grabbing, fun to watch, and even more fun to share — people are twice as likely to share videos than any other form of content. And, when used correctly, they can reduce customer service calls and increase traffic, leads, and sales.

Becoming a Blogger: 11 Tips for Success

Are you thinking about becoming a blogger? Or, do you already manage a blog but find it difficult to achieve a healthy work-life balance?  If so, read on. This article will help you efficiently and effectively achieve blogging success.

How to Get a Faster Mobile Website with AMP

We’ve known for years that the mobile user experience for websites is vital — particularly speed. Google found that more than half of mobile visitors will leave a site that takes longer than three seconds to load. At WordPress.com, we’ve put a solution for faster mobile web pages to the test — using the latest advances in open source AMP framework.

10 Professional Website Tips for WordPress Site Owners

It’s not easy to launch a website — especially a site that accurately reflects your business. That said, you don’t need to be a web designer with a huge budget to create an engaging, professional website.  The initial steps are simple. First, pick a great WordPress theme. Next, make your personal changes to improve your customer’s perception. Read on for 10  best practices for your professional websites that will elevate both your site and your brand.

Editing and Enhancing Images in the WordPress Apps

The WordPress app on your Android or iOS device is your companion wherever you go. Manage your site, write and publish, and even add images to your posts — from anywhere you are. Oftentimes, the most engaging posts include visuals, like the photos you take on the go: pictures from last week’s walk, snapshots of your afternoon picnic, or portraits of the family with your puppy.

13 Ways to Improve Blog Readability

Do you have a blog? If so, then it’s important that you acknowledge and appreciate blog readability. Put simply, the term “readability” speaks to how easy or enjoyable something is to read. The readability of your blog is a critical factor in determining whether you gain fans, subscribers, customers, and shares. With that in mind, here are 10 tips to help you improve the readability of your blog.

Blogger’s Block: Writing Resources to Try When You’re Out of Ideas

Everyone struggles with writer’s block now and then. It can help to know that you’re not alone — but for many, the panic still remains.  Writer’s block is very common when you’re in a time crunch and you become anxious. Maybe your ideas just need some extra time to stew, or you’re so focused on making the blog post perfect that you’re never satisfied.  Jumpstart your creative process by trying some of these ideas and writing resources.

Would an Online Portfolio Benefit Your Career?

In the digital age, having an online portfolio to showcase your work is a must. A portfolio is a show-and-tell for professionals.  From designers to bloggers to architects to photographers, any professional can benefit from having a space to highlight their best work. It provides an opportunity to impress future employers or land the next big client.  If you follow these four steps, you’ll be well on your way to creating an impressive online portfolio to draw in your audience.

Unroll Your Twitter Threads Into WordPress

Have you ever written a Twitter thread, and then wished you could turn it into a blog post? You can now do it in seconds.  Writing Twitter threads, also known as tweetstorms, can be a great way to clarify your thoughts: keeping each paragraph under 280 characters forces you to focus on your message.

Creative Website Domain Names for Artists and Performers

You’re almost there.  Your portfolio is put together. Your product is ready. Your motivation is high. But there’s one important thing to do before you launch your web presence in full, and that’s choosing a creative website domain name.

Why Doesn’t My WordPress Theme Look Like the Demo?

You’ve done it. You’ve taken a breath, taken a leap, and started building your blog, eCommerce store, or website worthy of your remarkable ideas. And to support it, you’ve selected and started customizing a WordPress.com theme.

Earn Money on Your WordPress.com Website with Premium Content and Paid Newsletters

Make money while you build an engaged following for your website: use the WordPress.com Premium Content block to offer monthly and yearly paid memberships that give your followers access to the premium content you designate for a predictable income stream.

On Working Remotely: An Automattic Reader

How does a distributed company — a group of people with shared business goals but spread out around the world, representing different cultures, family settings, and local health considerations — stick together during a major health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic?

Add a Post Carousel and Embed a Podcast Player in Seconds with Our Two Latest Blocks

Podcasts have been an unstoppable cultural force for several years now — and the format seems to have only grown in popularity in recent months, as so many of us are at home and looking for entertainment and (occasionally?) enlightenment.

Turning a Page with Page Layouts

Need to add a new page to your site but don’t know where to start? Making a brand new site on WordPress.com and want to design a homepage quickly? There’s a new addition to the WordPress experience that’ll help with exactly that.

Celebrating Pride at Automattic: “Living My Life Freely and Authentically”

Throughout June, we’re exploring identity, diversity in tech and the workplace, and what it means to participate in Pride Month. Meet Mel Choyce-Dwan, a product designer who works on the Automattic theme team. She talks about her journey as a designer, inclusive design, and how she got involved with the WordPress community.

10 Ways to Make Your Site More Accessible

Today, Global Accessibility Awareness Day, raises awareness around digital access and inclusion and improving the web experience for everyone. This year, WebAIM analyzed one million homepages for accessibility issues and found that 98% of websites had at least one WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) failure on their homepage, such as low-contrast text, missing image alt text, and empty links. These types of accessibility barriers make it difficult or impossible for some visitors — people who are blind, deaf and hard of hearing, and disabled, for example — to use your site.

Mastering Article Structure for Click-Worthy Posts

If you’re looking to boost the search engine optimization (SEO) ranking of your business website, one of the easiest ways to do so is to frequently update your site. Now, this doesn’t mean you need to refresh or change your entire website. Instead, establish a blog as one feature of your site, then, if you can commit to a posting schedule, you guarantee a regular flow of fresh content. The outcome? Higher search results.

Five Reasons Why Mobile Friendly WordPress Themes Matter

If you run a website, you’ve put a lot of effort into making sure that it looks professional. You found the perfect theme and customized it to match your vision. You’ve spent hours lining up your content with an attractive design.

Website Health: Use WordPress.com Stats for a Checkup

Staying on top of your website health is a key part of being a responsible site owner. After all, if you don’t know how much traffic you’re getting or if anyone is reading your blog posts, how can you make sure your website fulfills its goals? That’s why WordPress.com includes a Stats feature in the My Sitesmenu.

4 Steps to Becoming an Industry Authority

Becoming an industry authority can be a major benefit to your blog or business, regardless of what industry you’re in. It shows that you have a high level of knowledge about your field and that others within your line of work trust you. Once you’ve become an authority, you’ll rise above others in your industry and be able to endorse key products or brands.  But how do you actually establish that authority? Here are four key steps in the process to help you spread your expertise far and wide.

Website Images and SEO: Are Your Images Increasing Traffic?

To maintain a successful online presence, it is imperative to understand search engine optimization (SEO) and how it can increase your site traffic. In particular, for images and SEO, there is an opportunity to attract organic website visitors and, as a result, grow your business.  According to research by seoClarity, Google’s algorithm updates for 2019 have made search engine results pages serve up images among the top 10 results. What’s more, almost half the time when images rank in the top 10 results, they’re in the top three.

Writing Blog Headlines That Attract Attention in Search Results

When people search online for information, they tend to skip over certain page results or titles in favor of others. So, if you want them to arrive at your site in particular, you need to tempt them to click on your headlines.  What makes a title click-worthy? In a nutshell, a great headline is not only well-worded, but also includes savvy keywords, a smart description, and perhaps a time-proven hack. Read on for tips on how to write engaging headlines and why it matters.

How to Move Your Classes Online — and Charge for Them

It’s exciting to see how educators and consultants across different industries are getting creative with their online offerings: language teachers conduct 1:1 sessions to help students hone pronunciation, yoga studios livestream group sessions, and instructors lead writing boot camps via Zoom breakout rooms. Even my own strength coach is monitoring my workouts — I launch the camera on my phone, place it against the wall, and do deadlifts while he supervises.

Create a Subscription-Based eCommerce Website on WordPress.com

One of the most popular ways to offer products and services to today’s customers is via subscription-based eCommerce. This business model can adapt to specific user demands but also works for a larger audience. Let’s dig into the details of the subscription-based model, as well as how WordPress.com can support it.

Mastering Descriptive Language: How to Create Powerful Content

If you’ve ever stayed awake until 2 a.m. to finish an enthralling book, or purchased a product immediately after reading a compelling testimonial, then you understand the power of descriptive language.  Contrary to popular belief, it takes more than a good story to keep people hooked on your content. If you want to capture and hold a reader’s attention, you have to activate their imagination. By vividly describing people, places, and events, you can help your readers participate in the experience. This establishes an emotional connection, makes content more memorable, and keeps audiences coming back for more.

How to Define Brand Guidelines for Your Business Website

What is your business known for? When people see an advertisement or visit your website what do they feel?  A recognizable brand helps your company stand out from the competition, creates a connection with customers, and serves as a guiding light for your marketing efforts. To build a brand, you need to do some branding — communicating your brand and eliciting the right emotions in your audience.  Your business can use brand guidelines to create consistent experiences across channels, including on your website. Brand consistency on a business website is a challenge when you have a variety of people adding to it regularly. That’s why brand guidelines are a valuable tool. But first, you need to understand your brand.

How to Conduct a Competitive Analysis When Starting a Website

Before you start developing a plan to grow your audience by marketing your website, you need to understand the market and your place in it.  Conducting a competitive analysis — researching what competitors are doing — is an essential step in your business strategy. When you conduct a competitive analysis, you categorize and evaluate your competitors to understand their strengths and weaknesses, and use that to inform your strategy. Then you’ll be able to give customers a reason to choose your business.  By looking at your competitors, analyzing how they speak and sell, and monitoring what customers say about them, you’ll also be able to anticipate the market. It will help you to identify trends and build campaigns that engage your audience.

When Is It Time to Place Site Ads on Your Blog?

Most website owners know that their blog won’t start generating income right away. Building an online property that generates revenue takes time and persistence. Still, as traffic increases and you develop an audience, it’s natural to start wondering how you can monetize that traffic to start earning money from your online venture.

Site ads are a great option for creating an early revenue stream for your blog, but timing is everything. Here’s how to identify the right time to start monetizing your blogs with advertising.

Perfecting Your Blog Post Proofreading Routine

No matter what you blog about, proofreading your posts is important. If you don’t proofread, there’s a good chance there will be typos, misspellings, and other obvious mistakes in your copy — and readers will notice. Like it or not, these errors cost you credibility. Even search engines care about content quality, explains Search Engine Journal. If you take your work seriously, your audience will, too.

So, with that in mind, how can you develop the painstaking attention to detail that proofreading requires? Here are a few key suggestions for cleaning up your work.

Millennials vs. Gen Z: 3 Key Insights for Targeting the New Generation

So much digital ink has been spilled covering millennials vs. Generation X and their real and perceived differences. Now it’s time for a new discussion to take center stage: millennials vs. Gen Z.  Generation Z is becoming a buying and workforce power of its own. According to The WJ Schroer Company, Gen Z (comprised of U.S. citizens born between 1995 and 2012) is a population of 23 million people, many of whom are now entering college or the workforce. A Fast Company article suggests that by 2020, 40 percent of all shoppers will be Gen Z. Knowing what makes Gen Z tick can help you create content and a brand identity that attracts and engages these young shoppers. In this article, you’ll learn three key insights, so your brand can stay relevant in the next decade and beyond.

3 Tips from a Successful Blogger on How To Amplify Your Story

Last week, Ben Phillips — the blogger at Diary of an Uber Driver — shared his journey of adapting his blog into a book and TV series, and how his ride-share experiences connected him to people in ways he never imagined. “Without my WordPress.com blog, none of this would’ve happened,” says Ben. Want to get your story in front of as many people as possible? Implement these three features as seen on Ben’s site.

How to ask for business recommendations

As a rule of thumb, you should ask a customer for a recommendation after you’ve exceeded their expectations, solved a problem for them, or they’ve shared their appreciation unsolicited.  In each of these cases, your follow-up conversations with happy customers can determine whether they’ll recommend your business.

How to End a Blog Post Effectively and Keep Readers Engaged

An impressive blog post begins with a compelling hook that piques readers’ interest, then transitions into an information-packed body that keeps them reading. But, your work as a content creator doesn’t end there. Without a good summary, call to action (CTA), thought-provoking question, or challenge to keep readers intrigued, they’ll be more likely to leave for another site. Here’s how to end a blog post in a way that keeps your audience engaged.

How to Research a Blog Post: A Step-by-Step Guide

Learning to research a blog post — and then actually writing it — can be intimidating, especially if you’re just starting your blogging adventure. That said, for many blogs, research is a necessity. Any post that includes specific factual claims, relies on statistics, or otherwise depends on outside information beyond common knowledge will require thorough and careful research.  Here are four main steps for researching a blog post, from start to finish.

How to Shift Your Blog’s Brand Purpose Flawlessly

If you’ve had your blog for a while, you may feel the need to redefine your brand purpose at some point. It’s not uncommon to start blogging about a certain topic and then realize that your idea is not as exciting as you initially thought.  That said, changing your blog’s purpose can confuse your audience, and if you’re not careful, some may even stop following you. It also raises the question of whether you should go back to the drawing board and start all over.  In this post, we’ll share tips to help you determine if it’s the right time to rebrand and, more importantly, how to do so without starting from scratch.

Five Ways to Find Time for Blogging

Inspiration hits, and you feel moved to start a blog. Your idea is crystal clear. You’re excited and ready to go! The first few posts come pouring out of you with ease, and the energy of creating and sharing fuels your writing. Then life kicks in, months go by, and suddenly you find yourself wanting to give up on the whole idea because you just don’t have time.  If this sounds familiar to you, let this be your intervention. There is a way!

4 E-Commerce Website SEO Tips for Driving Organic Traffic

So you have a terrific online store, and you want it to flourish. One way to increase sales is by driving organic traffic to your site. It’s an effective method for attracting customers without having to spend money on ads. This is why many sites are using SEO to draw customers in, according to Search Engine Journal. Wondering how you can get started? Here are four eCommerce website SEO tips that can help grow your bottom line.

10 WordPress.com Mistakes to Avoid When Building a Website

If you want to build a website on your own, then WordPress.com is the solution for you. But hold your horses! Read this first to avoid these 10 common WordPress.com mistakes and enjoy the optimal WordPress.com experience

3 Ways to Build Website Credibility with Google

To establish website credibility, your online visitors aren’t the only ones you need to convince — you also need to establish credibility with Google. When the search engine giant recognizes your site as an authority in the space, your website will appear in your target audience’s Google searches and increase your likelihood of being found.  Of course, producing relevant, valuable content that answers your audience’s pressing questions is crucial for building credibility. But beyond that, here are three ways you can show Google that your blog or business is a trustworthy, authoritative source.

WordPress.com Mobile Updates: How to Update Your Site on the Go

It’s common knowledge that a mobile-friendly website is a must-have. Giants like Google emphasize the importance of a mobile-friendly design for retaining visitors and improving SEO. But what can you do to create a site that’s just as mobile-friendly for you, a website owner who needs to make updates on the fly?

Sometimes you just can’t wait until you’re back at your desk to update your site. Whether you need to publish a breaking blog post or correct an error, WordPress.com mobile updates are a lifesaver for website owners on the go.

Four Ways to Create a Passive Income Website with WordPress.com

You’ve probably heard about the concept of “passive income” before. If so, you may think the idea of making money while you sleep, watch movies, or go on adventures is intriguing.

If you’re looking to supplement your revenue stream without working longer hours, a passive income website might be the way to go. But how can you earn a passive income using your WordPress.com website?

How to Reverse Declining Website Engagement Metrics ASAP

If you’ve had your website up and running for a while, you’ve probably noticed some ebbs and flows in engagement. One week, plenty of visitors come to your site, but the next week, there’s a significant dip.  Though some fluctuations are normal, you can do several things right now to reverse worrisome website engagement metrics. Here are some factors to consider as you seek to boost your key engagement metrics.

Why Remarketing Keywords Is Key to Driving Sales

So you’ve mastered the art of pay-per-click (PPC) marketing and set up a successful keyword strategy. But are you remarketing keywords? As the online marketing landscape has changed, so has the ability to interact with your potential customers and remarketing keywords is key to that strategy. Remarketing can not only help continue engagement with your audience but also drive sales of your products or services.

Create a High-Converting Landing Page in 5 Steps

Landing pages are an important aspect of any marketing campaign. In fact, since this is where most people will enter your marketing funnel, your landing page may make or break your website.  Here are five things you can do to make sure you have a high-converting landing page.

New WordPress.com Editor 101: How to Build a Landing Page

The new WordPress.com editor offers a lot of exciting possibilities when it comes to website customization. Best of all, there’s no technical knowledge required, so anyone can use it.

Creating a Top-Notch FAQ Page for Your Small Business Website

A good frequently asked questions page goes beyond simply answering customers’ queries about your products or services. The page should also instill confidence in your company, encourage purchases, demonstrate your expertise, and more, ultimately saving you time, energy, and frustration.

3 Tips for Converting Customers to Brand Advocates

Word-of-mouth marketing is one of the best ways to grow your business. You can probably think of a time someone you know and trust recommended a restaurant or a product so you decided to give it a try.  In the marketing world, that person is known as a brand advocate. An advocate creates buzz about a business by leaving glowing reviews online, talking about a brand on social media, or suggesting a brand to friends and family. Brand advocates are critical — 78% of consumers trust the information about brands that they get from friends and family, according to Kantar Media.

What Is Affiliate Marketing, and How Can It Help Your Small Business?

Affiliate marketing is incredibly popular right now, as many retailers are implementing programs that let you make money by promoting their products. This system can be a great way for small-business owners and creators to earn money on the side, especially if you have a large audience who trusts your recommendations.

3 Blog Collaboration Strategies That Will Build Your Brand

When it comes to building your brand as a blogger, your reputation is almost as important as your content. The right endorsement or shout-out from another blogger can help you reach a much bigger audience than you could on your own.

But how do you go about building those relationships? Here are three blog collaboration strategies that will help you boost your brand, create value for your new partners, and win over even more fans.

5 Tips for Nailing the Conversational Writing Style

Developing a conversational writing style for your blog sounds easy, and it is, for the most part — as long as you break any unsuitable habits and commit to some new ones. The best bloggers know how to pour their words into a post, adapting a style that mimics chatting with friends, rather than impressing a professor (unless their site is geared toward professors, of course). A stylish blog with a friendly voice welcomes readers and inspires them to return.

Monetize Your Site

We know monetization is important for many site owners. We encourage and support, with some restrictions, the many methods of monetizing the hard work you put into your blogs and sites. Read on to find out how you can turn your website into a source of income.  We have created a dedicated section in your dashboard called “Earn” to help you find all the options at your disposal in your WordPress.com account.

How to Start an Email That Grabs Readers’ Attention

Email marketing is a valuable tool for small business owners and creators. But for optimal results, you have to learn how to format and compose emails that draw readers in — otherwise, your messages may end up in the trash.

Cost Savings for Your Business: WordPress.com Payment Tools

Are you using your WordPress.com site to sell products and services, or hoping to do so in the future? If so, you’ve probably experienced the struggle of trying to find a user-friendly and cost-effective payment tool.  While you want to find cost savings for your business, you don’t want to jeopardize your sales by implementing an unreliable tool.  Here are three useful and cost-effective payment tools for your WordPress.com site.

Local Marketing Strategy: How to Engage Nearby Buyers

Whether you run a small, single-location business or your organization spans multiple geographical regions, developing a local marketing strategy is critical to your success.  Specifically, localizing your marketing efforts will help establish greater brand recognition within your community, support lead-generation efforts, and foster brand loyalty from consumers who support local businesses.  To help you begin devising an effective strategy, read on for some useful background and several digital marketing tips.

How to Establish Your Brand Identity

Brand identity is a vital part of any business strategy.  By establishing your brand, your business can connect with customers while aligning to your greater goals. A brand is not just a logo, although that is important — it’s everything your business communicates.  Creating a strong brand identity happens over time, and with these tips, you can start right away.

Design Tips for Non-Designers: 8 Dos and Don’ts

Creating a visually compelling web presence can be intimidating if you don’t have any design experience. Building a website — which has to be both attractive and functional — can feel even scarier. However, there are certain design tips that anyone can use, and when applied correctly, these principles will elevate the quality of your site design from amateur to professional.

SEO Tools for WordPress.com: How to Choose the Right Ones for You

When you consider SEO tools for WordPress.com, it’s crucial to understand what each tool does, and how it fits into your overall SEO strategy. Having the right tools in place can increase site traffic and improve your site’s success, but choosing the wrong ones could make it tough to get the insights you need to build your brand.

Competitor Website Analysis Tools: Learn How You Stack Up

You’ve built your business website and are keeping an eye on the data and analytics that track your site’s performance. But what about the analytics from your competitors’ websites? Here’s a guide to help you become familiar with competitor website analysis tools so you can see how you stack up.

Paywall vs. Subscription: Monetizing Your Website Content

Depending on the type of small business you run, you may put a lot of effort into generating quality website content. Your business may even be centered around content, for example if you publish an online magazine. You can choose to monetize that content with sidebar advertising, but more and more consumers are finding ways to block ads on their connected devices.

Start an Online Magazine with WordPress.com

When seeking out information, fewer and fewer people are turning to print resources like newspapers and phone books. However, there is one type of print media that is weathering the digital storm: magazines.

How to Create a Vlog With WordPress.com

It’s not just lifestyle bloggers who can create a vlog — depending on your goals, niche, and industry, vlogging can be a great way to increase brand awareness and engage with your audience.

Office Automation Tools to Lighten Your Entrepreneurial Load

Office automation tools are stress reducers, especially if you wear several entrepreneurial hats — bookkeeper, blogger, cook, chief, or other roles small-business owners play all at once. Business software, apps, and the plugins available to WordPress.com Business plan users can also cut costs and desk time.  Here’s how automation modernizes, simplifies, and improves your e-commerce experience, leaving more time to generate leads and close sales.

Email Marketing vs. Blogging for Small Business Owners

When it comes to email marketing vs. blogging, many small business owners are unsure which matters most. It’s true that when email marketing first emerged, it presented a unique opportunity to remotely reach and connect with an audience. Since then, blogging has become an attractive alternative with its own advantages.

From Hobby to Business: When and How to Take the Leap

If you have a personal pursuit that you love, you may have wondered whether it might make for a great business someday. But how do you take that leap from hobby to business? Here’s how to know when the time is right along with some pro tips on how to turn your favorite pastime into an actual business venture.

43 Best Photography Themes for WordPress (2019)

Are you looking for the best photography themes for WordPress? If you’re a passionate photographer looking for the right platform to showcase your photos, creating a photography site in WordPress is the best option available. Using a WordPress photography theme, you can easily create a professional photography site and share your photos in a meaningful way.

How to Write More: 5 Techniques to Boost Your Output

Many people dream of becoming writers. By one estimate, 200 million Americans want to write a book someday.  Whether you aspire to become an author, run a successful blog, or write in your spare time as a creative outlet, it all starts with simply dedicating the time to write.  Learning how to write more is a skill that takes time to develop. Luckily, there are many techniques you can use to flex and build your writing muscles. Here are some tips and advice for getting started.

Increase Website Traffic with WordPress.com Features

The number of site visitors that you attract can determine your website’s overall success. If more visitors land on your site, additional opportunities to sell products, solicit sponsorships, or generate passive income present themselves.  While there’s no magic wand that you can wave to instantly increase website traffic, WordPress.com offers features that can put you on the path towards receiving more site views.

Common SEO Myths That Can Actually Hurt Your Rankings

There are several tried-and-true ways to help increase search traffic and page rankings for your website, but there are also a number of misleading fallacies surrounding search engine optimization (SEO) floating around. How do you know what advice is solid and what you should ignore? In this article, we’ll explore some common SEO myths and highlight other tactics to use instead.

Four Steps for Building an Online Community

It’s the ultimate success story: your business provides a beloved product or service, and now you’re starting to build a loyal base of customers and fans. Pretty great, right  Don’t rest on your laurels just yet. As your small business attracts a bigger audience, you’ll need to think about how to approach your next step — building an online community.

New WordPress.com Editor 101: How to Write a Blog Post

For creating beautiful blog posts, the new WordPress.com block editor is a complete game-changer. And the best thing about it is that you don’t need any prior coding knowledge or experience — you can jump right in and begin crafting your posts immediately.  This article will show you what’s possible in the new editor and how you can use it to create engaging blog posts.

Easy Website Maintenance Checklist: How to Keep Your Site Update

Owning a website is a responsibility. As the owner, you’re the one with the duty to ensure it looks good, functions well, and is visible to as many visitors as possible.

Sometimes, that’s as easy as writing a new blog post every now and then. However, it’s a good idea to follow a basic website-maintenance checklist once a year to ensure that everything is updated.

WORDPRESS SEO 101: HOW TO FIND THE RIGHT KEYWORDS FOR YOUR SITE

Keyword research is an essential part of SEO work. It enables you to find the right keywords for your site that will allow you to rank high for relevant searches and attract targeted traffic.  Keyword research is neither a secret weapon nor overly complicated. Know your site’s goal and audience, brainstorm possible search terms, enhance the list with keyword research tools and sort them by commercial intent and competitiveness.

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How to Use Seasonal SEO to Boost Traffic During Slow Months

Changes in your website traffic are natural during certain times of the year. While it might be disconcerting to see a major drop, it’s par for the course for many small-business owners. Taking advantage of seasonal SEO can help keep traffic up even during the slower months.

Three Ways to Repost Blog Content

If you don’t already repost blog content, there’s a goldmine of opportunity sitting in your archives. Every blogger knows that growing a site requires regular posting. One great way to fill that need is by refreshing content you’ve already written. When you repost blog content, you both improve search engine optimization (SEO) and engage effectively with your readers.

How to Optimize PDF Files for Search Engines

You can — and sometimes need to — add downloadable PDF files to your business website. When you do, search engines like Google crawl and index the files, affecting your website’s search rankings. Even if you’re building your first website, you can master how to optimize PDF files for search engines. Here are four tips.

How to Monetize Content and Earn Income From Content Marketing

Your shiny, brand-new website is great, but you want more — to build your profile, to drive traffic, and to monetize content so you can turn part-time blogging into your full-time career.  While there are proven ways to monetize a blog, content marketing takes things further by helping you to make money from content published outside your website.

Offline Marketing Strategy Tips to Build Your Brand

In today’s digital world, many businesses focus predominantly on digital marketing strategies — SEO, social media ads, and paid search, to name a few.  However, there’s still value in offline marketing, especially for small businesses.

How to Make Your WordPress Site Show Up in Google Search Results

According to data from Internet Live Stats, there are more than 40,000 search queries performed on Google every second, which equates to several billion searches per day. If someone is looking for the product or service that you offer, there’s a good chance they’ll begin by performing Google searches.

How to Use Marketing and Blogging to Grow Your Business

As consumers become more and more savvy about traditional advertising — and how to avoid it — content marketing continues to grow. With this growth, small-business owners should learn how to best market themselves and their businesses. This is where content marketing and blogging come in; a company blog is a great place to focus your marketing strategy.

How to Create Successful SEO Content

Without site content, there’s not much for a search engine to analyze or index. If you do feature content, your site is likely somewhat optimized for search engines already, especially if that content is relevant to your niche

How to Improve Your URL Structure for SEO

Think back to a time when you noticed a web address that was miles long and used a complicated string of letters, numbers, and special characters within. This kind of lengthy URL isn’t only hard on the eyes: it can also hurt your search engine ranking.

HOW WORDPRESS SITES GET HACKED AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT?

As a first line of defense, adhere to the following best practices for WordPress login information:

  • Frequently change your passwords (seriously, put a reminder in your calendar now)
  • Avoid using the admin username (which used to be the default in older WordPress versions and is therefore often targeted first)
  • Create a strong password (either via an external service or the password strength meter included in WordPress)
  • Oblige other users to do the same with Force Strong Passwords
  • Store passwords in a secure place like LastPass

Apart from that, you can further up your login security with the following methods:

  • Limit login attempts — Plugins like Login LockDown and Login Security Solution enable you to constrain the number of login attempts from a single IP address within a certain amount of time. Perfect for keeping brute force attacks at bay.
  • Employ two-step authentication — Adds a second layer of security that can only be passed by means of your cell phone, social network account or else. Options include Duo Two-Factor Authentication, OpenID, and Clef.
  • Hide your login page — Moving wp-admin and wp-login to non-standard addresses makes it harder for hackers to attack them. You can do so via Rename wp-login.php, HideLogin+ or Lockdown WP Admin.

WordPress login protected? Then let’s move on to other things.

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Content Ideation: How to Come Up With New Ideas for Your Blog

Content ideation — the process of coming up with trendy or interesting topics week after week for your blog readers’ pleasure — can be a downright brain drain. Developing a strict routine of idea gathering and brainstorming is commendable, and sometimes even profitable, especially if you don’t want to drop the blogging ball. Here’s how to score great topic ideas to keep your content game strong.

Five Web Design Tips From the WordPress.com Design Team

When it comes to your website, first impressions matter. Most visitors to your site will judge your brand or business based on its look and feel — and a strong design will tell them that you care about your online appearance, whereas a bad design will leave the opposite impression.  In this post, you’ll learn why good design is important and receive web design tips from WordPress.com team members that will help ensure your website provides your visitors with a good experience.

How to Avoid These 4 Common Website Problems

Can you recall a time when you visited a website that was difficult to navigate? How about a page containing so much text that unearthing relevant information was like finding a needle in a haystack? There’s nothing more frustrating than a poorly designed or structured website.  Your site is a valuable piece of online real estate. If you follow certain design principles, it can help you grow a following and retain customers. Get the most out of your online presence by avoiding these common website problems.

Basic Photo Tips to Keep Your Website On-Brand

It’s easier than ever to find stock images for your website. Simply type a few keywords into a stock image bank and pick the first result, right?  Not so fast. When you’re selecting photography, you want to maintain a look and feel that’s true to your brand. The first results in a stock image search might look okay, but you have to consider whether they will fit with the rest of your website.  If you’ve ever been tempted to insert cartoon clip art that would look out of place on your sleek, minimalist website, keep reading for basic photo tips and resources that will help you develop a strategy for choosing images that are both on point and on brand.

Content Promotion 101: Share Your Blog with the Masses

You work hard to create compelling content. Perhaps you secretly hoped that was enough to pique the interest of readers and encourage social media sharing. Instead, you discover that your site traffic isn’t delivering on your expectations. Why isn’t anyone looking at your content?  It’s time to step up your content promotion efforts to attract an audience.

Blog vs. Website: Use Both for an Optimal Content Strategy

When you’re deliberating between the benefits of a blog vs. website, consider the type of content that will most effectively support your goals.  Remember, a blog can be a website, and a website can contain a blog. One of the most compelling reasons to use both in tandem is to optimize your content marketing strategy. This is a marketing practice based on creating and sharing relevant materials like tutorials, social media posts, and other valuable resources.  According to The Content Marketing Institute, 91 percent of B2B marketers are using content to promote themselves. A blog is one of the best platforms to deliver valuable information to your target audience.  You too can create a content strategy that brings your blog and website together to promote everything that your brand has to offer.

Julia Giles You have a number of things going on here; WordPress updates, backups and a migration from site A to B.
o Start with the backup first using plugin Updraftplus, save the files to your server and offsite (PC if no offsite area).
o Next do your WordPress core update (Home>Updates) to bring WordPress up to date
o followed by your plugins and translations updates. Do the updates one by one in case they fail so you know which one failed and can investigate and fix.
o This will leave your theme updates to do. For your live theme, check out the changes that will be applied by researching the theme developers update info so you know what will change. Also note any changes you have made to the theme files as these will be overwritten during the theme update. When you have updated your live theme, reapply your changes to the code and test the website to ensure it still functions and looks the same. Fix any issues.
Btw, a child theme should be used rather than editing themes but life isn’t always so black and white.
o Once you are all up-to-date, take another backup with Updraftplus.
o Migrate the site using the pro version of Updraftplus or a free plugin such as Duplicator.
Good luck.

CAROUSEL BUILDER PLUGIN

PLUGIN for BUILDING PRICE LIST

For getting some information as a form, from users to put in different pages and another users will be able to search from that database to see the result page links in my website. Is that possible ?

CONTACT FORMS

MEMBERSHIP SITE software

Keykau Inc   Free WordPress Webinar – Learn Practical WordPress Hacks in 90 Mins

WP Compendium  free WordPress tutorials for non-techies and beginners

BLOG-IN-BLOG

Blog-in-Blog allows you to use the WordPress platform for it’s CMS features, but still have a blog page on your site. Posts selected by category, post_type, tag or any combination thereof, can be used to feed the ‘special’ blog page, and can optionally be hidden from the home page.
You can have more than one category hidden from the homepage (not post_types or tags).

WRIKE

Wrike is a digital work management tool that lets users track and coordinate projects, combining a simple user experience and interface with enough depth for power users.

One platform to streamline all workflows.

Your all-in-one platform to manage projects, organise work, enhance collaboration and accelerate execution across all departments.

WRITING and PUBLISHING

Links:

OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab

TABLO  is a place where you can publish your writing, connect with a global audience of readers and find new opportunities for your work.

eBooks would include interactivity and animation with the level of interactivity being basic. On each page the user will be able to click on objects triggering basic animation. Some examples below:

YOUTUBE

Uploading your own videos  While the video is uploading, you’ll be able to add a video description, choose the visibility settings (which we’ll talk about below), and more. The upload time will depend on a few factors, including the length of the video and your Internet connection speed.

YouTube Copyright Basics

What are video privacy settings on YouTube

YouTube Advertising: How to Set Up Video Campaigns

YouTube Advertising: How to Set Up Video Campaigns

ZAXWERKS

As the world’s leading innovator of 3D title and logo technology, Zaxwerks develops software for the digital video, broadcast, film and web markets. Our customers include ABC, NBC, CBS, Dallas Cowboys Football, TBS SuperStation, Fox Sports, Tech TV, Pixar, Bank of America, and many other post production facilities and TV stations around the world.   Zaxwerks is a privately held software company with headquarters in Southern California. Please visit the Zaxwerks website at www.zaxwerks.com or email us at support(at)zaxwerks.com.

ZOOM

Right here at the bottom of the list.

BLOG

ZOOM VIDEO TUTORIALS

are available as part of your fee account and you can also register for upcoming live training or access recent recordings.

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