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WordPress for your small business site or blog

For most small businesses and solopreneurs, WordPress is one of the best choices for a fully functional, feature rich website. It is a free Content Management System (CMS) that allows the average website business owner to look after their content and perform minor design tweaks without the need for expensive Web Design applications or special knowledge of coding.

Some of the top reasons to use WordPress for Your Small Business Website

  • SEO – right out of the box, WordPress provides nearly everything for good search engine optimization (SEO). With the help of some good SEO plugins, WordPress virtually takes care of on-page optimization, from a technical standpoint.
  • Content management – WordPress visual editor, makes updating your sites content very easy. Create posts, pages, etc., easily.
  • WordPress plugins – There is a thriving ecosystem of developers creating themes and plug-ins for WordPress users. Plugins essentially increases its functionality and provides the ability to extend your website with polls, contact forms, ratings, widgets, or hundreds of other without having to hire a web designer.
  • Support – If you do run into problems or have some questions, there is a massive community that provides help, tutorials, videos, etc.. All your troubles are essential just a search away.

Below you will find several articles that will help you further improve your WordPress experience and with it, build and create a successful online business.

BTW, check out my free WordPress installation service. It’s a great option if you don’t feel comfortable with doing it yourself.

To Your Success!

WordPress All-In-One SEO Pack Plugin Gets Major Revamp, Thumbs UP!

by DiTesco
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While logging in one of my other sites today, I noticed that there was an update for the popular WordPress SEO plugin, All-In-One SEO Pack (AIO). If you have read my best SEO plugins posts, you will notice that it is one of the SEO plugins that I highly recommend, next only to Yoast. One [...]

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WordPress Elegant Themes Lifetime Membership Giveaway [Over]

by DiTesco
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One thing I like about WordPress themes is that they come with so many variations and features, one can literally find something that would be of their liking. While there are many free WordPress themes out there, hands down, the premium ones are the most interesting ones. Reason being is that, most free ones don’t [...]

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TemplateMonster Giveaway: Over 1800 WordPress Themes Available (over)

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So you got a self-hosted WordPress site and trying to find that perfect theme for you? Well, here’s something that may be of interest to you. The fine folks over at TemplateMonster.com have been nice enough to provide 3 free premium WordPress themes for 3 lucky readers of iblogzone.com. Interested? Read on … More than [...]

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Google Launches Webmaster Help For Hacked Sites

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If you are in doubt about the chances of your site getting compromised, the recent release of Google’s webmaster help for hacked sites should be a good indicator on just how widespread this problem is. If you have a website, be advised that it does not matter if it is big or small, your site [...]

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Is WordPress Better For SEO than Blogger?

by DiTesco
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Great question is it not? One of the things I like about Matt Cutts videos on Google’s Webmaster Channel is that often times there are really good information that you can take out of it. As usual though, not everything that comes out from these videos are straight forward. Some you have to “read between [...]

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How To Make Your WordPress Site Load Faster in 2013

by DiTesco
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Making your WordPress website (or any other platform) load faster is something you should really be concerned with, specially if you are in a shared hosting environment. Not only is a fast loading website good for search engines, it is first and foremost, an important factor for user experience(*). Studies has proven that a slow [...]

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Giveaway: 3 Premium WordPress Themes from ThemeFuse [Over]

by DiTesco
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The WordPress whizzes at ThemeFuse have been kind enough to invite iblogzone’s audience the chance to win not one, but six WordPress themes licenses. 3 lucky winners in this giveaway will receive unrestricted access to top WordPress themes of their choice. Whether you already enjoy the convenience WordPress offers, or if you’re just now considering [...]

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WordPress Security For Blogs and Small Business, Why care?

by DiTesco
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Quick answer to the question of whether you should be concerned about your WordPress security is an astounding YES. To say that your site is “not important” enough or relatively protected from all the “harm” that are out there is being flat out careless. I have seen many people saying that they have their WordPress [...]

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Related Post Plugins For WordPress and Site Speed Test [case study]

by DiTesco
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What are related posts plugins? Related posts plugins are tools that WordPress site owners can use to display, either in text or thumbnails, posts that are “similar” to the one users are currently reading. Most of the time, you will see at the end of each post something like, “you may also like”, “post related [...]

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Manage Multiple WordPress Sites With InfiniteWP [Giveaway]

by DiTesco
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Managing WordPress sites is actually not a hard thing to do. However, if you have more than one WordPress site, then things can start to complicate, specially when you have to keep everything updated. Updating WordPress, plugins, themes, creating backups, are just some of the “mandatory” maintenance tasks one needs to do. Having a tool [...]

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Best Free WordPress eCommerce Plugins

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One of the most amazing facts about WordPress is undoubtedly its flexibility. Nowadays, unless you are looking for something extremely complicated, anyone could start a website, a blog and yes, an ecommerce solution built right in your WordPress powered site. If you are a small business owner, have a relatively small amount of inventory, you [...]

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Domain Names and WordPress Sites, Are You Protected 100%?

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Recently, Hesham of FamousBloggers.net had an unfortunately incident of his domain name being stolen. Fortunately, four days later, he is now back up and sailing away. This issue was resolved relatively quickly, primarily due to his determination of getting back what is rightfully his, and because he took  action, rather than waiting for things to [...]

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