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How To Post Consistently On Your Blog
I have been blogging for over five years now. And for a good part of that time, I have been posting consistently multiple times per week. Today I thought I would share a few tips so you can figure out a posting schedule that works for you and how it can help you to post consistently. HOW TO POST CONSISTENTLY Get A Schedule That Works For You Having a regular posting schedule is great. So long as you can stick to it. From an SEO point of view updating your blog regularly helps. People will say you should be posting 3 or 4 times a week. But there is no…
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The Cost of Self-Hosting WordPress
When I decided to self-host a blog one of the things which convinced me to move over was the idea that I would be paying less. At the time I was paying for a domain, paying to connect the domain to my blog and paying for all sorts of extra features through WordPress. As you can imagine I was quite interested in not paying so much to run my blog and as such moved to a self-hosted blog. However looking back I now realise I hadn’t saved as much money as I thought I would. THE COST OF SELF-HOSTING WORDPRESS The really important thing when running a self-hosted blog is…
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Ghost Shell | Pipdig WordPress Theme Review
Recently I had a little revamp of my blog and as part of it bought a new WordPress theme. I’ve seen so many people on Twitter talk about the Pipdig WordPress themes so that was one of the places I looked at and eventually bought from. I’ve heard so much hype about Pipdig that I’ve actually avoided it because of that. But after buying one of their themes I was pleasantly surprised by how good it turned out to be. PIPDIG WORDPRESS THEME REVIEW Pipdig is a UK based company which creates blog themes for Blogger and WordPress blogs (self-hosted blogs, not WordPress.com). They make nicely designed affordable blog themes.…
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The Downside of Self-Hosting WordPress
As I’ve mentioned a few times before I’ve had a self-hosted WordPress blog for about a year and though there were good reasons as to why I chose to make the move. I’ve had a number of problems with self-hosting WordPress which have got so annoying I genuinely considered moving to some other blogging platform. MY PROBLEMS WITH SELF-HOSTING WORDPRESS As I’ve mentioned before my problems with WordPress started right away while transferring over to my new host. As far as I could tell this problem was caused more by my host than the actual WordPress software but it was still an annoyance. The thing is that since you’re self-hosting…
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My Experience With Moving To A Self-Hosted Blog
I’ve had a self-hosted blog for just under a year now. At the time I wrote a post about some of the reasons why I moved to a self hosted blog. But today I thought I would share my experience of actually moving over. I had originally assumed the whole process was going to be quite confusing, especially since most people I know have paid for a Guided Transfer which will do everything for you. But apart from a few hiccups, it ended up being a pretty simple process. MOVING TO A SELF-HOSTED BLOG I didn’t just decide to move to a self-hosted blog on a whim. It was something…
