11. Keywords Review
How We Find Everything Online
1. Brainstorm keyword phrases around pain points
12. Keywords Review
How We Find Everything Online
1. Brainstorm keyword phrases around pain points
2. Use Google’s AdWords Tool for ideas (free)
13. Keywords Review
How We Find Everything Online
1. Brainstorm keyword phrases around pain points
2. Use Google’s AdWords Tool for ideas (free)
3. Identify keywords to weave into all your content
14. Keywords Review
How We Find Everything Online
1. Brainstorm keyword phrases around pain points
2. Use Google’s AdWords Tool for ideas (free)
3. Identify keywords to weave into all your content
4. Use All-In-One SEO Pack plugin to optimize each
page
15. Principles Review
Overview of WordPress
Pages Posts
Vs.
16. Principles Review
Overview of WordPress
Pages Posts
Vs.
Example:
Home
About
Contact Us
17. Principles Review
Overview of WordPress
Pages Posts
Vs.
Example:
Example:
Home
Blog
About
Recent News
Contact Us
18. Principles Review
Overview of a WordPress
Tips
Tabs Are Your Friend
19. Principles Review
Overview of a WordPress
Tips
Google is Your Friend
20. Principles Review
Overview of a WordPress
Tips
http://codex.wordpress.org/
Codex is Your Friend
21. Principles Review
Overview of a WordPress
Tips
Visual
Code: HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL
27. Plugins Design
Powerful Add Ons
1. Simple to Install
2. Adds Functionality
28. Plugins Design
Powerful Add Ons
1. Simple to Install
2. Adds Functionality
3. Google It
29. Plugins Design
Powerful Add Ons
1. Simple to Install
2. Adds Functionality
3. Google It
4. Read Installation
30. Plugins Design
Powerful Add Ons
TIP: Check the
1. Simple to Install
“Average Rating” and
2. Adds Functionality
make sure the Plug-in
3. Google It
will work with your
4. Read Installation
current version
(Wordpress 3.0+)
54. Principles Design
Getting Your User Through Your Site
1. Simple navigation
55. Principles Design
Getting Your User Through Your Site
1. Simple navigation
2. Keyword Headings
56. Principles Design
Getting Your User Through Your Site
1. Simple navigation
2. Keyword Headings
3. Concise Text
57. Principles Design
Getting Your User Through Your Site
1. Simple navigation
2. Keyword Headings
3. Concise Text
4. Great Images
58. Principles Design
Getting Your User Through Your Site
1. Simple navigation
2. Keyword Headings
3. Concise Text
4. Great Images
5. Breadcrumbs
59. Principles Design
Getting Your User Through Your Site
1. Simple navigation TIP: Observe
2. Keyword Headings somebody on your
3. Concise Text site and have them
4. Great Images talk through their
5. Breadcrumbs thoughts
60. Principles Review
Overview of WordPress
Where
We’ve Been
61. Principles Review
Overview of WordPress
Where
We’ve Been
1. Getting Traffic to Your Site
62. Principles Review
Overview of WordPress
Where
We’ve Been
1. Getting Traffic to Your Site
1I. Using plugins instead of code
63. Principles Review
Overview of WordPress
Where
We’ve Been
1. Getting Traffic to Your Site
1I. Using plugins instead of code
1II. Providing good user experiences
65. Plugins (Recommended)
1. Akismet (pre-installed but need API key)
2. All-in-One SEO
3. Contact Form 7
4. WordPress Database Backup: WP-DB-Backup
5. Google XML Sitemap
6. Google Analytics for WordPress
68. Principles Review
Overview of WordPress
Blog Categories Posts
69. Principles Review
Overview of WordPress
Categories
70. Principles Review
Overview of WordPress
Categories
1. Easy way to organize blog topics
71. Principles Review
Overview of WordPress
Categories
1. Easy way to organize blog topics
2. Allows users to ‘sort’ content
72. Principles Review
Overview of WordPress
Categories
1. Easy way to organize blog topics
2. Allows users to ‘sort’ content
3. Can filter what content gets shown
based on category
73. Principles Review
Overview of WordPress
Categories
74. Principles Widgets
Overview of WordPress
Widgets
• Allows you to customize your sidebar and footer
• Drag and Drop
Widgets
75. Principles Widgets
Overview of WordPress
Widgets
• Allows you to customize your sidebar and footer
• Drag and Drop
TIP: Check page
template if nothing is Widgets
showing up
76. Principles Widgets
Overview of WordPress
Widgets
77. Principles Widgets
Overview of WordPress
Widgets
TIP: Check page template if
nothing is showing up
*Also controlled via your Theme
78. Principles Menus
Overview of WordPress
Custom Menus
• Allows you to customize your navigation
• Drag and Drop
• Can even add Blog Categories
• Can drop any URL in as well
79. Principles Menus
Overview of WordPress
Custom Menus
81. Principles Code
Overview of WordPress
Code
• Be very, very careful
• Easy to mess up your entire
installation
• If you don’t know what
you’re doing, don’t do it
82. Principles Code
Overview of WordPress
Code
• Be very, very careful TIP: Always cut and
• Easy to mess up your entire paste into Notepad, so
installation you have a back-up and
• If you don’t know what remember which file
you’re doing, don’t do it you edited
83. Principles Code
Overview of WordPress
Code
Live Code Files
85. Takeaways Tips
Overview of WordPress
1. Stay up to date on releases
86. Takeaways Tips
Overview of WordPress
1. Stay up to date on releases
2. Consider investing in a paid theme
87. Takeaways Tips
Overview of WordPress
1. Stay up to date on releases
2. Consider investing in a paid theme
3. Google for plugins
88. Takeaways Tips
Overview of WordPress
1. Stay up to date on releases
2. Consider investing in a paid theme
3. Google for plugins
4. Consider learning code or hiring a developer
89. Takeaways Tips
Overview of WordPress
1. Stay up to date on releases
2. Consider investing in a paid theme
3. Google for plugins
4. Consider learning code or hiring a developer
5. Always ask “Does this make a better experience
for my user?”