How to Create a Newspaper or Magazine Website Using WordPress

Over the past decade, the number of people getting their daily news online has exploded.  Over 37% of Americans now read online news at least three days per week and global news sites are hitting record traffic levels.  According to ComScore, Yahoo News had 138million unique worldwide visitors in November 2009, with Google News recording 100 million, The New York Times 92 million and CNN 66 million.  The public’s appetite for
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How to Use Old Posts to Maximize Your Income

Over 90% of people who read posts that have dropped off your front page arrive at these pages from search engines.  Any experienced blogger will know that traffic from search engines tends to have a much higher click through rate for ads.  That’s why monetizing your old posts could be one of the most effective strategies for making an income from your blog. In fact some bloggers don’t like to monetize
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How To Use Disqus to Rocket Your Blog Traffic

How To Use Disqus to Rocket Your Blog Traffic Disqus is a unique comment tool that is reaching vast numbers of people, with over 100 million unique visitors last month.  They have over 9 million commenter profiles over 300,000 registered communities, offering an innovative and user-friendly comment tool for people to join in the blogging community and get their opinions heard. People mistakenly believe that Disqus is a social networking site.  In
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The Best Free WordPress Themes of 2010

People make up their mind about a website in less than 2 seconds, so you need to grab your visitors’ attention fast.  Choosing the right theme for your WordPress blog is an essential process and it requires careful consideration.  If you get the theme right, you can customize your blog to suit your niche and give the professional image you need. As soon as you’ve completed your free website builder program,
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WordPress for Restaurants: How to Create a Website that Sells Your Menu

Any restaurant without a website is in danger of missing out on hundreds of potential customers.  It’s true that they say, “we eat with our eyes,” and having a top quality website where customers can look at your menu, see pictures of your food and then make a booking is essential for true success.  Not only could you dramatically boost your takings you could also create customer loyalty, by keeping
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WordPress and Teachers: How To Set Up a Website For My Class

The internet is an invaluable educational tool and teachers simply cannot afford to ignore it.  By allowing kids to connect with other students around the globe, this develops their understanding of different cultures, fosters an enquiring mind and engages and motivates them in their studies.  It gives kids a global audience for the work, developing a passion for writing and an authentic motivation for completing their assignments to the best
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Why WordPress is the Best Free Website Builder

by Melanie Citron There's a reason why WordPress is the world's most beloved blogging platform and the best free website builder around: It's because people love what works. People are attracted to clean, efficient, organized sites that instruct them how to achieve their desired goals in a step-wise fashion, with just a click of the mouse here and a click of the mouse there. People like choices, and colors, and templates, and
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