FeedBurner (Google’s RSS feed service) provides RSS and email subscriptions with additional features making it simple for the DIY crowd to leverage the power of RSS. Many small businesses, non-profits, and other bloggers are likely using FeedBurner, its free and super easy to set-up. Most, however, are not leveraging its features to take their RSS [...]
You need to create a sitemap for your Wordpress blog for SEO and as an added user navigation system. A sitemap generator that dynamically generates and updates itself, as well as creating a valid XML Sitemap is no longer a luxury for the technology challenged. The best plugin we’ve found is the DD Sitemap Generator [...]
Comments and discussions on your blog are the lifeblood of building real community, which leads to loyal readership. Hands down, the best comment system to add to your Wordpress blog is Disqus. Disqus will allow you to easily integrate social media connections, video comments, and much more – taking your comment system into overdrive [...]
You must backup your Wordpress blog database. There is no way around it, if you don’t want to take the chance of losing everything you’ve invested in your blog — content, plugins, settings, and comments. Nothing can be rebuilt if you do not have a regularly scheduled backup of your blog. Think a crash [...]
When building your Wordpress blog, there are general settings you’ll want to be mindful of. These settings, as part of the core functions offered by Wordpress, will help ensure your blog is running smoothly. While not detrimental if you’ve missed these settings, they are definitely one’s you’ll want to take a look at before launching [...]
At the request of a subscriber, we took a brief walk-through of the e-commerce tool 1 Shopping Cart (1SC). The WebSuccessDiva team prefers open-source ecommerce tools that allow custom programming and flexibility in use. However, for the do-it-yourself crowd 1 Shopping Cart is a formidable option that has plenty of flexibility while tying together the [...]