Category Archives: General How-To

Embed your YouTube Channel

Posted on December 2, 2009 by CScholz

Embedding your YouTube Channel on your WordPress page or post is easy if you know how to do it.  Let me save you the time it takes to figure it out by giving you these simple steps: Modify this code: … Continue reading →

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Add a Facebook fan box to your WordPress site

Posted on November 18, 2009 by CScholz

Hi there – Here is a short video that teaches you how to add a Facebook fan box to your WordPress site.  You can watch the video on my website (and folks with Mac’s Mail program may even be able … Continue reading →

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Add an admin friend to your Facebook Page

Posted on November 5, 2009 by CScholz

This video teaches you how to add an admin to your Facebook page and is the first of a series of short video tutorials I will be making about how to use WordPress, Facebook, Twitter and more. Watch the video.

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Free alternative to BrowserCam: Browser Shots

Posted on November 3, 2009 by CScholz

BrowserShots is a free, open-source program created by Johann C. Rocholl that allows you to see how your website looks in dozens of different browsers on different operating systems including Linux, Mac and Windows.  It works by making screenshots of … Continue reading →

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Google Local Business Center

Posted on October 29, 2009 by CScholz

Here is another way you can increase your visibility on Google – register your business at Google’s Local Business Center.  It will put you on Google Maps for your business and help people locate you.  If you work from home … Continue reading →

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Guest post: Best blogging practices by marketing expert, Coryon Redd

Posted on October 27, 2009 by CScholz

Strategy/Marketing Plan by Coryon Redd, batteries4lesss.com, cellplaza.org Why are you doing a blog? Your blog needs a strategy.  There are many goals for blogging for business such as: promoting website usage, building links to your website, sharing insight into your … Continue reading →

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Update to the latest version of WordPress

Posted on October 26, 2009 by CScholz

This post is for those who maintain their own WordPress site/s (or are employing someone other than myself do it for them). Recently, I wrote an article about how to backup your WordPress site properly.  If you are not in … Continue reading →

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Back yourself up: The 3 top reasons to back up your WordPress site

Posted on October 14, 2009 by CScholz

Why backup? 1) hosting companies disappear 2) servers crash 3) code gets corrupted Ok, so I convinced you.  Now if you’re like most people, you’ve got 2 tasks ahead: To backup your database, use the WP-Database-Backup plugin.  Before I discovered … Continue reading →

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Stats for WordPress: Analytics or WP stats?

Posted on October 13, 2009 by CScholz

One of my clients just asked me if there was a way to see how many people were visiting his Wordpress blog each day and my answer is yes! There are 2 ways I recommend:

1) Google Analytics and 2) Wordpress.com stats

Google Analytics is by far the most in-depth, comprehensive stats provider. It is very useful for when you want to employ search engine optimization techniques. However, sometimes it’s just TMI (too much information!).

Wordpress.com stats is a wordpress plugin that gives you the basics in your dashboard – how many visits, keywords people used to find you, the links they clicked on while they were there, etc. Here is a screenshot of my wp.com stats since I started my e-newsletter:

Which to use? Both. Continue reading →

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Add a feedback tab to your site

Posted on August 24, 2009 by CScholz

I just discovered this great feedback tool that allows your website visitors to easily engage with your content. You can test it right here on my site by clicking on the “Feedback” tab on the right-hand side. Or go to GetSatisfaction.com to get your own. Continue reading →

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