Thinking about blogging? Well, before you do anything else, you have to choose a blogging platform. The sheer amount of options may feel overwhelming, so in this post I’ll walk you through some of the options available to you and, more importantly, the criteria you need to keep in mind when it comes to throwing […]
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WordPress initially started out as a ‘blog-only’ platform and now that it has extended as a full-fledged Content Management System, it remains a popular blogging platform. WordPress.com blogs have over 409 million monthly viewers who looked at 22.4 billion pages per month this past year. This standalone fact is enough to justify the popularity of WordPress as
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In 2018, content is still “king” – and we need more of it than ever before. We now have a proliferation of channels that brands can use to reach their customers, from websites and apps to social media, email, push notifications, chatbots, voice assistants, and more. On top of this, we have more devices than
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CMS stands for content management system. It’s the system that manages your content. Simple enough, right? Odds are you already have one. It’s the back-end that you log into to add things to your website. And it lets you do that without knowing how to code, which is a real bonus. If you don’t have
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Virtual assistants, such as Alexa and Siri, are being called upon to answer questions and fulfill consumer informational requests more than ever. “Alexa, find pet stores near me.” Finding pet stores. “Siri, how do you make homemade slime?” Here’s what I found on the web for “how do you make homemade slime.” Have a look.
When I first started off as a content marketer, I managed my editorial workflow in a combination of Google Sheets and Docs. It was good in theory, but terrible in reality. My system didn’t accommodate for missed deadlines, long-term planning, or any of the post-submission tasks I had to do once a writer turned in an
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Rel tags are powerful tags that can be added to a website to signal a relationship between the current webpage and the webpage to which the tag links. Using these tags properly can help you stay clear of duplicate content penalties, primarily by informing search engines of the original page and the pages that are
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I recently returned from Paris. I was there partly for work and partly for fun. WordCamp Europe (WCEU), the largest international WordCamp, was held there; and I was determined to attend. Going to the event not only offered me the opportunity to scratch an item off my bucket list, but it also gave me the
Home / Basics / What is a CMS? (New YouTube Video) By WinningWP Editorial May 31, 2017 If you’ve recently come across the term CMS (short for ‘Content Management System‘) for the first time, you’ll likely have a few questions, such as: what exactly is a CMS? What can CMSs do, and why does everyone
