By Tina Cook | WordPress Security
A website wipeout – to be avoided for sure! Still, I have to ask, have you ever experienced suddenly discovering your website has disappeared? Did you feel it in your stomach? Ouch! Instead of your carefully crafted digital domain, there’s the “white screen of death” aka nothing! It’s like realizing your car is not where […]
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Sounds dramatic right? Not so nice if your live website goes down. So yes, I’m trying to get your attention, proud WordPress website owner. This head’s up is for you. Late yesterday (Thursday, Aug 2) WordPress 4.9.8 was released (for most automatically) so when you log in to the dashboard of your website, you’ll see […]
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By Tina Cook | Business Skills
Are you based in the US or Canada? Are you wondering what’s up with all this buzz about GD… what? I’m a solopreneur miles away from Europe. Do I need to know about this? Is it going to effect me? Yes, as non-EU (European Union) online entrepreneurs, we are all in the same predicament, or […]
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By Tina Cook | Visual Content
Is your post’s title or is your post’s image seen first in the news feed? Are you maximizing the pull-power of an enticing graphic to bring readers to your content? Is image creation beyond your skill set? Let’s go step-by-step so you can test this out for yourself. (Oh, and you don’t need to be […]
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By Tina Cook | Online Video
In the golden, olden days of analogue television, before reality TV, before the proliferation of hundreds of TV channels, there was a magic in television shows. There was a time when TV entertainment shows had you spell bound and weren’t the background noise of your daily chores or your teenager’s homework. All the great shows […]
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By Tina Cook | SEO , WordPress
With over 26.5 million downloads (and counting), the free version of the plugin Yoast SEO is greatly trusted to improve the search engine ranking of your WordPress website. “Once installed and activated on my website, do I need to do anything?”, I’m asked all the time. The team at Yoast have just released a video […]
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By Tina Cook | Entrepreneurs , Success Strategies
In memory of Steve Jobs, Guy Kawasaki shares the top 12 lessons he learned from the one of the greatest innovators of our time: 1. “Experts” are clueless. 2. Customers cannot tell you what they need. 3. Jump to the next curve. 4. The biggest challenges beget the best work. 5. Design counts. 6. Use […]
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WordPress rules as the king of the blogging platforms and content management systems! It’s the “most popular and fastest growing publishing platform on the web” confirms CrunchBase. Of the world’s top 100 blogs in Technorati’s index, a mighty 50% use WordPress and no other platform is a close second. These were the findings of a […]
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