WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

On November 12 I have posted an offer “Allow Me To Solve Your Biggest WordPress Problem” that quickly became very popular and generated quite a few questions. I have answered most on the spot and hopefully provided solutions to most and then later followed by a post where I go deeper into details on couple problems.

Popularity of this post made me wonder if I can do this on a more permanent bases and help you solve your WordPress problems. This post is the first in a series that will follow and I plan to post it every couple weeks and help you fix whatever issues you might be having with your self-hosted blog…

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On pages of “WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er” I do my best to present meaningful information to help you build your own blog based on my favorite platform WordPress and make it a truly interactive Web 2.0 portal. Helping people proves to be beneficial not only to the blog itself (rewards via steady traffic and increasing readership) but also to many visitors.

But as everyone else I need to take some time off during this month and will be spending the last week of December in ski resort with a limited time that I can dedicate to the blog itself. Calling on anyone interested to become a guest blogger!

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First of all I would like to thank everyone who joined my community and apologize for delay in keeping my promise. Even though I have decided not to pay attention to the Contest I still would like to personally thank everyone who joined my community and it is even more valuable to me because I know you didn’t do it for the wrong reasons…

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This guest post was submitted by Marco Richter, Publisher of www.marcorichter.net . (Use my Contact page to learn how you can be featured!)

Many bloggers get frustrated sometimes when working with the built-in editors of WordPress. The code editor does not provide enough options to make you post look the way you want it and the WYSIWYG-editor can also be annoying in many ways.

But there´s no obligation to use either of them as there are several third-party tools to replace the built-in editors of your WordPress blog. I´d like to introduce 4 of which I have tested and found them better to use.

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Social networks are great for establishing a relationships and communications with people within your interest and not only. Taking advantage of the options presented by social networks is no longer optional as Rich defined in his latest report “The Attention Age Doctrine” and Facebook is one the best of the breed.

I have to admit that I perhaps don’t spend enough time on it socializing as my business and regularly scheduled life pulls me away from “online world” (shame on me!) but I do pay attention to what I receive and if you become my friend I do pay attention to your messages and here is why …

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In this post i want to share a details on how to move WordPress to new host, Hostgator in this specific case, with 0 down time. Information provided is based on my recent personal experience of relocating my WordPress blog from Site5 hosting account to Hostgator and ensuring that I had no outage period and yet was able to verify that entire process worked without a glitch.

There are several steps to this process and each requires verification to ensure that everything will function properly but once you get them all right - you will ensure that your visitors will not be impacted during your move and if you rely on your blog as income source, I think it is very important. Not only does it allow your to reduce any nuisance but also avoid unprofessional appearance during your move of WordPress blog to new host.

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In this quick post I simply want to share couple great resources for any blogger interested to improve their blog Search Engine Position by a notch or two (and show me who isn’t) ….

• The Blogger’s Guide to SEO - by Aaron & Giovanna Wall. While more advanced bloggers might not discovered too much new in this guide I personally like it as a reference material. Written by a well recognized blogger this guide provides all the major steps you need to cover with your blog in a very convenient format.
• WordPress SEO Masterclass For Competitive Niches by Andy Beard in my opinion is a lot more advanced guide that takes one site and walks through improving its rank. Andy does a great job in this post covering multiple linking strategy that are very advanced and provides you with a great tools freely available to make your own calculations. This is one of the most in depth blog SE optimization articles I have see in a while and a great read.

That’s it for now …