It could be that your website isn’t properly optimized for search engines. Start a Blog – Search engines love lots of content and fresh stories. Optimize Images – Search engines cannot see images so you need to do some optimization to get them crawled. Submit Site to Search Engines – Expedite search engine spiders finding your site by manually submitting it to search engines. Use Description Tags – The Meta Description Tag is shown on the search engine results page as the summary snippet for your website. Now that’s quick! Blogs have both. MORE >>

WordPress is a platform that’s rather easy to use, for the most part. As Matt Hooper explained earlier today, in his post What Your Need to Know Before You Start a WordPress Blog , no web development or programming skills are required. There are, however, some aspects that are not that obvious for people who are new to the whole blogging thing, and who are trying to get their WordPress site running for the first time. Just to make one thing clear, WordPress doesn’t need any additional software, tools, or plugins to operate. Now, to the best part. MORE >>

One advantage of having a unique domain for your blog is you can export your entire blog from WordPress to TypePad or vice-versa.  The aforementioned words were pulled from a popular post I wrote over a year ago entitled TypePad vs WordPress – Own Your Blog. Let’s take a look at those first, and then I’ll explain why I moved to WordPress last week – and how I pulled off the move without a hitch. At WordPress you go to the community forums for answers, where unfortunately it may be some time before you get a response. So, do this.  MORE >>

After reading the articles on how to work with designers and technical contractors here on Problogger.net, I felt the need to share my experience with you on how to choose a WordPress contractor. Choosing a third-party WordPress contractor is probably the most important task of all for a WordPress blogger, yet it’s not often discussed. worked as a system and web server engineer for international companies for over 12 years and recently, I started my own business. How can a blogger find a good WordPress contractor? Hiring the WordPress contractor. MORE >>

If you want you can “Launch” your hosting setup and “Install” the WordPress application. The alternate way is to go to WordPress.com, download the files, and then  upload them via your FTP software. If you’d like it to load quicker, download the plugin “W3 Total Cache” If you’d like a cool contact form that pops up download “Slick Contact Forms” Download “Google XML Sitemaps” and set up your Google Webmaster Tools account to get into the search engines quickly. For free. They share just enough. MORE >>