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Choosing the Best Domain Name for Your Website

When you want to start a website or blog, you need to choose a domain name. This is a bit like choosing the name of your website, but there’s more that goes into it. After choosing your domain name, you will be able to register it (if the name you’ve chosen is available) and start uploading content. At this point, it’s very difficult to change your domain name and can cause all kinds of branding issues if you try to change it. It’s best to choose the right domain name from the beginning. Below, we are going to cover what you need to know about choosing the best domain name for your website. Of course, it can simply be your business name, but this may not always be available or the right choice. Domain Name Basics Before you start looking into the right domain name, it’s important to understand some of the basics of choosing a great domain name. The domain name can be anything you want it to be, as long as it’s available. Most of the generic words or common personal names will be taken,...

Top 20 WordPress Security Plugins [2019]

Cyber-security is sadly something which has only come into the popular subconscious in the last decade or so. Yes, cyber-security has been around a lot longer than that, and there are plenty of instances where cyber-security will have helped average people secure themselves in previous years but the absolutely vital position it holds nowadays is only recently developed. It’s not hard to see why that is: for hackers and cyber-criminals of all shapes and sizes there are now so many more opportunities for them to take advantage of an innocent user. Technology is ubiquitous: everyone of a certain generation and below has a social media, possibly several, online instant messaging, does online shopping, receives targeted emails, does online banking and just, generally, lives their lives in the online sphere. With each new advancement in technology cyber-crime is given a fresh avenue through which it can exploit users. An area that is certainly not immune is web hosting and website management...

4 Advanced Marketing Tactics to Skyrocket Your Blog Traffic in 2019

Mostly If you’re like most bloggers, one of your New Year’s resolutions in 2019 was undoubtedly to get more traffic in 2019. Now, three months into the new year, you’re probably looking at your Google Analytics report and wondering: why is my traffic growth flat? You’re not the only one. Countless bloggers around the world are asking themselves the same question. The truth is that increasing traffic in 2019 requires a very different approach than it did in, say, 2015. The state of marketing has changed drastically in the last few years. The tactics that were rock solid in 2015 barely make a dent in your traffic today. To increase your blog traffic in 2019, you need to adopt newer, more advanced marketing tactics. Use these tips to grow your traffic this year and beyond. 1. Write less but more authoritative content If you’ve been blogging for a while, you probably live by a single mantra: produce more content, publish it often. While this adage stood the test of time for eons (or two de...

Is It Possible to Make a Full-Time Income Freelance Writing?

Freelance writing sounds like a dream job. If you have a keyboard and a computer, and maybe an internet connection, you can sit down pretty much anywhere and start making money. But is it really feasible to make a full-time income by writing articles online? Or is it just a pipe dream? Let’s take a look at the possibilities. What It Takes to Be Successful First, you should know that pursuing a freelance writing career is demanding. While it may seem easy to an outsider, writing a solid piece requires copious amounts of research and the ability to structure paragraphs and sentences in a way that your audience can understand. You’ll also be responsible for finding new clients and opportunities, meeting strict deadlines, and occasionally working long hours. At a minimum, you’ll need: An entrepreneurial mindset. Freelance writing is a business, first and foremost. While you’ll have some degree of control over which assignments you take on and how you find new work, your income will also d...

Use These Tips to Always Have Inspiration For Your Blog Topics

Do you have your own blog? Do you know what to write about in the next blog post? If you have an idea, that’s great, but not all of us know exactly where to find inspiration and write something powerful. That’s why you need some great solutions that will help you create great blog content. Here are the best tips. 1. Read a lot The best inspiration comes from reading . It’s an ultimate truth that applies to all types of creation, no matter if it is a great article or a blog post. You need to read a lot if you want to be inspired. Once you read about the exact subject, you do not only collect more knowledge about the subject, but you also stimulate your own natural process of thinking, and that is where your ideas come from. Reading and creation go hand in hand, and that’s why you need to read the inspiring content if you want to create even more inspiring blog posts. 2. Create a list of topics You may be noticing that preparation and planning are crucial for making a good blog topic. It...

Choosing The Right Keywords For Your Blog

When you’re writing for the blog on your website, it’s important to ensure that you’re targeting the right keywords, so that you can get your blog in front of the right audience. But how do you go about doing this? And how do you write your content with keywords in mind? Let’s look at a few examples of how you can do this! Finding your keywords The first step is to determine which keywords you’ll be targeting with your content. You’ll want all of these to be relevant to the overall theme of your blog as well. As an example, the blog I Contribute to, the Klood Digital Blog , targets a number of keywords related to digital marketing and sales. To find keywords for my blogs there, I begin by thinking about subtopics within digital marketing that I’d be interested in writing about, such as keyword research or Google Analytics. Getting the numbers The next step is to get some hard numbers on those keywords. There are a range of different tools you can use to do this – let’s look at a f...

7 Website Design Essentials for Small Businesses

What makes a great website? Is it the colours, the layout, or the information contained in the site itself? Every small business owner wants their site to attract as much traffic as possible while competing against rival businesses and some much larger companies. The truth is, no matter how pretty your website is, if nobody’s viewing it, then it’s a waste of time. You might have heard words like Google ranking, SEO, keywords, backlinks and other technical terms which can be confusing. After all, you just want your website to do the work of attracting customers while you go about your work. Here are 7 ways to make sure that your website gets the attention it deserves. 1. A Consistent and Professional Look To be competitive you have to have a great website that looks professional, after all, it’s the “face of your company”. Everything must be laid out in a logical order and be easy to read because most people don’t have to look for things. The layout of every...

What are the top CMS Trends for 2019

Content Management Systems (CMS) have existed since the dawn of the internet. From its early presence in the form of simple, static blogs to today’s complex drag-and-drop/WYSIWYG website editors, CMS platforms have come a long way. So what will be the top CMS trends in 2019? Which new platforms will emerge from the shadows to threaten the lead of WordPress? Read ahead to find out. The state of CMS in 2019 Out of the top 10 million websites on the internet, WordPress has a market share of 44.6%, followed by Joomla & Drupal. Source: W3Tech There are over 2 billion live websites all across the internet. To be more precise, the figure was around 1,652,185,816 websites as of November 2018, according to a survey by Netcraft. With almost half the world’s population having access to the Internet today, that’s a lot of websites for one to comprehend. And if you consider just the top 10 million websites out of this cluster, WordPress, the world’s most widely distributed CMS platform is used ...