WordPress Basics - Website Services for Small Businesses

Adding the Author’s Face to Google Search Results

May 8, 2012

For those who want to add the author snippet to any WordPress theme (including Genesis), try this thorough tutorial by Yoast. For those who want to simply install a plugin and let it do all the work, read on! 1. Add the Google Authorship Plugin for Multiple Authors by Keyword Strategy (search for Google Authorship from within your Dashboard - Plugins - Add New screen). Don't forget to "activate" it. 2. This will add a new field in your Profile page. It looks like this: 3. Add your Google+ Profile URL. An example Google+ url is provided. The "Location" and "Width" is … [Read more...]

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Drumroll please! Our New Control Panel!!

April 20, 2012

In a one-hour tutorial, the most common feedback I get is, "I'm overwhelmed... let me think about this." It is a LOT to soak in. And I've spent weeks if not months, thinking about how to sort through the tutorials available and make them digestible. Instead of trying to teach all the stuff you might need to know, how about I just do it for you? And you focus on what you do best: your business. In order for you to fully appreciate the huge difference, here's the before pic: TA DA: THIS is the new control panel: Here is a quick walk-through of the new steamlined … [Read more...]

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How to Create a Recipe or Photo Index in Genesis

April 17, 2012

These templates/snippets will work only if you have the Genesis Framework installed and a child theme active. This will provide a graphic / image based index of your photos or recipes categories. Before you start, you'll need this: FTP access Text / Code editor All posts for this index in one big category, for example, "Recipes" with all the sub-categories below that. Each post/recipe should be placed in one of the sub-categories. The ID of the main category WARNING: adding this code to your site can break it entirely - cause it not to show up. I recommend making … [Read more...]

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Printable Recipe Cards that Increase Traffic

March 22, 2012

There are two things that you need - well three - if you're a food / recipe blogger: 1. SEO Friendly Ziplist Plugin - creates the recipe card formats for search engines. It adds a function to save to their ziplist site (with shopping lists and other cool organizing features) and to print a printable version of the recipe cards. 2. Branding Consistency - we create the printable recipe card formats to match your site 3. Pinterest - because this alone can increase your traffic 50+% Printable Recipe Cards by DSWP Website Services Get your own SEO-Friendly Recipe … [Read more...]

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How easy is WordPress to use? {video}

January 30, 2012

This is a very common question. And definitely a great question when you're considering moving to your own self-hosted WordPress. This video covers the answer to "Is WordPress easy to use?" http://youtu.be/383RMTgzM08 For more about using WordPress, its setup, and what you'll need to get started, see our Getting Started with Web Hosting page. … [Read more...]

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How to use Inlinkz to host a linky

January 27, 2012

Sometimes, a little step-by-step, you-can't-mess-this-up is what we need. I hope this helps! For this, we will assume you have signed in at Inlinkz.com and upgraded to a premium account (only $19.99 per YEAR- amazing!) Lets set up the situation: you have a website that accepts submissions of a Wordless Wednesday, or Menu Plan Monday, or any other theme. Using Inlinkz, you can let your readers submit their own posts. Here's how to set it up: 1. Sign into Inlinkz.com. 2. Click on "Create new collection" 3. Give your new collection a name (no one but you will see … [Read more...]

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Moving from Blogger (Atom XML) to WordPress with RSS Import

January 26, 2012

Note: this is only half the problem. The comments do backup onto your hard drive. But this will not import them into WordPress. You can request access to the beta version of the Blogger Backup utility if you need to backup and restore posts - and you can use the BLOGML xml type instead of the ATOM. This post is only to get the conversation started!! Step Zero: Prepare Blogger Have blogger feeds at Full. And comment feeds at Full. Step One: Download Atom Files Download the Blogger Backup Utility that comes with a nice easy setup wizard. Settings: Save Comments [Y], Save … [Read more...]