Using WordPress for your business site has a lot of advantages. If you haven’t switched over to WordPress or you haven’t at least added a WordPress blog to your static website now is the time to do that. Actually last year or two years ago was the time to do that – but, there’s STILL time.
Here are a couple of tips that will help you use WordPress to your advantage for your Hawaii business.
1. If you absolutely can’t understand WordPress and you want a totally GUI (Graphical User Interface) setup which will make tweaking your WordPress site extremely easy and you’ll probably never have to get into the code… see “Thesis” theme. It’s about $85 to buy, but it’s the easiest setup for WordPress that exists today. It’s not just for beginners – it’s a very advanced feature theme and many top bloggers are using it – including Darren Rowse, of Problogger.net. Darren uses it for his Twitip.com site.
2. WordPress now has incremental backups of your posts and pages. Meaning, every time you change a post by adding or taking something away – WP will save a copy of your original and you can restore your original page with one click on the archive link. WordPress does NOT store a copy of your .php and CSS files which you should save to your computer after each time you change them.
3. All in One SEO Pack is amazing. Get it and use it to optimize your search engine options for your site.
4. Other plugins that are worthy of donations are: WP-Cache; Canonical URL’s; Comment Relish; SEO Smartlinks; Feedburner Feedsmith; WordPress Database Backup; Google Analyticator; SEO Smartlinks; Google XML Sitemaps.
If you don’t have these plugins, research them and see what they do. They’re probably applicable to your blog. I strongly suggest you get them and use them.
5. You don’t need to approve Pingbacks. I don’t approve any pingbacks from junk sites or content scrapers. I ignore them.
6. Your comments section is part of your website. You don’t have an obligation to anyone to post their comment. If their comment doesn’t do these three things, toss it…
- Treat you and other commenters with respect.
- Talk about something very relevant or parallel to your post.
- Add something to the conversation.
If you don’t control what’s being said on your Hawaii site and you let a couple of cheeseheads ruin the tone of the site – you’re going to regret it.
7. Help people in some way with every post you do – even if you post about what you did that day. Make sure you’re helping someone by posting it!
Best of Life!
Vern
Moving to Hawaii might just be the smartest thing you ever did over your entire lifetime. What’s holding you back?
PS: I’m not sure if undebatably is a word. But, you get the idea… :)
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Thank you for sharing some excellent tips. Some of those apply to sites other than WordPress (for anyone who hasnt figured it out yet). I think I’ll plan to implement many of those practices. I would like to see links to the plugins/themes you recommended.
It’s easy to find the links through WordPress when you add plugins in your dashboard. Thanks for writing.
You needn’t worry so much about undebatably. Quite a few folks will read that word as “unbeatably”. Just the way the mind work sometimes. ;)
lol, yeah, I guess I didn’t think of that. You know – I read somewhere (and practiced it) that if you just keep the first and last letters in a word correct and mix up the innards – words are still readable. Heck, whole paragraphs are readable. Strange…!