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Tuesday, July 4, 2017

History of Fiverr a global online marketplace

Fiverr was founded by Shai Wininger and Micha Kaufman on February 1, 2010, and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. Wininger came up with the concept of a marketplace that would provide a two sided platform for people to buy and sell a variety of digital services typically offered by freelance contractors. Services offered on the site include writing, translation, graphic design, video editing and programming. Fiverr’s services start at $5, which is what the company’s name is based on and can go up to thousands of dollars with Gig Extras. Each service offered is called a "Gig"


The website was launched in early 2010 and by 2012 was hosting over 1.3 million Gigs.The website transaction volume has grown 600% since 2011. Additionally, Fiverr.com has been ranked among the top 100 most popular sites in the U.S. and top 150 in the world since the beginning of 2013
On June 1, 2010, Fiverr received a seed investment of US$1 million from Cubit Investments.
On May 3, 2012, Fiverr secured US$15 million in funding from Accel Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, bringing the company's total funding to US$20 million.
On December 2013, Fiverr released their iOS app in the Apple App Store.
On March 2014, Fiverr released their Android app in the Google Play store.
During August 2014, Fiverr announced that it has raised $30 million in a Series C round of funding from Bessemer Venture Partners, Accel and other investors. The round brings their total funding to date to $50 million.
In October 2015, Amazon.com started legal action against 1,114 Fiverr sellers it claims provide fake reviews on the US version of its website. Fiverr did not dispute Amazon’s allegations and stated: “As Amazon noted, we have worked closely together to remove services that violate our terms of use, and respond promptly to any reports of inappropriate content.”


In November 2015, Fiverr announced that it had raised $60 million in a Series D round of funding, led by Square Peg Capital. The round brings their total funding to date to $110 million. At the same time, the company announced that it was expanding the marketplace to allow sellers the ability to price productized services, known as Gigs, at prices above the original USD $5 minimum
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Monday, June 19, 2017

How To Earn Money On Fiverr – The Step By Step Process

 How To Earn Money On Fiverr – The Step By Step Process

So now I’ve shown you what I do and what I use to do it, now all you need to is how to make money on Fiverr yourself.



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Just follow the steps below and you will learn how to make money on Fiverr easily-

Step 1 – Practice

First of all I bought Video Maker FX and spent time practicing making videos of all different types with it.
It took me a couple of weeks of playing but I soon got the hang of being able to make videos quickly.

Step 2 – Create Fiverr Gig

Once I knew I could produce awesome videos I created my Fiverr Gig.

I kept the title short and simple – “I will Create a Professional Whiteboard Animation Video In 24hours for $5.”

Here are some other titles I have used that did well-

    I will create an AMAZING Whiteboard Animation Video For $5
    I will create a PROFESSIONAL Whiteboard Doodle Video For $5
    I will create an Eye CATCHY Animation Video For $5

Feel free to play around – you get the idea!

Step 3 – Creating Your Gig Image

If you do a search for similar gigs you will notice some of them have better images than others that really stand out.

Do some searches and take some inspiration from the gig images that really stand out to you.

Once you have done that you can use PicFont.com to create your Fiverr gig image, if you really want to stand out you can also hire someone on Fiverr to do it!

Step 4 – Writing Your Gigs Description

Your description is also a very important part to your gig that you need to get right.

Just like with the images I also search around Fiverr and look at what the other top sellers are doing and use their descriptions as inspiration.

Whatever you do, don’t copy their descriptions or your will get banned. Just use them as inspiration and come up with your own unique description.

Step 5 – Tags/Keywords

One of the most important parts of your gig is setting up the tags and keywords.

A lot of people don’t realise this but having your gig tagged correctly is very important to the ranking of your gig in Fiverrs search results.

Take a look at the picture above and you will see the tags I used and also set your gig delivery duration to “1 DAY”.

Step 6 – Video-fying Your Gig

You also have the option of adding a video to your gig to make it stand out. Again this helps to boost rankings and sales so pay attention.

I just used Video Maker FX to make a catchy video for my gig, it doesn’t need to be anything special but shows off the service as well.
The Secret Sauce – Ranking Your Fiverr Gigs

Once you have everything setup and your Fiverr gig is live you need to apply the secret sauce to get the gig ranking and sales flowing in.

This has been my secret for about 6 months that I have only shared with a few of my friends. I can rank any gig #1 for any keyword on Fiverr in less than 48 hours for any search term like “video animation”, “usa traffic” and so on.

Here is how I do it-

NOTE: You must have completed the previous steps for this to work.

Step 1 – Dummy Account

Create a dummy Fiverr Account and buy your gig twice. Then give your gig a nice positive review (You will only loose $2 when you do this).

Step 2 – Fake Visitors

Now just sends at least 250 fake hits/visitors to your Fiverr gig. This will boost your gigs impressions and make it more visible to cash at hand buyers.

If you don’t know how to get fake visitors, well you can just buy them from Fiverr but don’t go overboard with them.

Step 3 – Accurate Tags

Make sure you use accurate tags for your gigs and also include the keywords you want to rank for in the title and description.

If you are going to do a gig like the one I’ve shown you above you would use tags like-

    Video animation
    Whiteboard
    Whiteboard animation
    3D animation
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Sunday, May 7, 2017

Make Money with WordPress

This may come as a surprise, but expert developers and designers aren’t the only ones able to make money with this platform. In fact, it’s inherently ripe with opportunity for:
  • Writers
  • Marketers
  • Consultants
  • Instructors
  • Salespeople
  • And more…
  •  Consider one of the following WordPress business opportunities as your starting point:

    For Developers

    1. WordPress Developer

    WordPress may be the most popular CMS, but that doesn’t mean everyone using it knows what they’re doing. Plus, many people know their business needs a website, but don’t have time to set it up or maintain it on their own. This is where a WordPress developer can step in and offer something more affordable than what the big agencies do.
    WordPress developers are in high demand, so if you know how to build and maintain a high performing website, this is the job for you.

    2. Maintenance and Support Services

    There is already quite a bit of competition by way of WordPress support services, but that doesn’t mean you have to work for one of the big companies to get work in site maintenance. No one wants their site to break, but they also don’t want to take time away from regular business matters.
    Your services can fill that gap, by managing updates, monitoring for security breaches, backing up websites, and providing other common types of support.

    3. Develop Freemium Plugins for the WordPress Repository

    If you use WordPress on a regular basis, you already know that plugins are a powerful tool to have in your arsenal. They cut out the need to spend extra time coding. They give clients a more personalized (and easy) experience when using the platform on their own. And they bring extra style to your website’s UI and UX.
    If you have the skills to create a plugin on your own, why not go for it? You can give it away for free in the WordPress Repository and consequently drive traffic back to your site where you offer advanced (premium) plugin features or other development services.

    4. Develop Premium Plugins for Third Party Marketplaces

    One of the best things about developing plugins is that they’re a wonderful opportunity to generate passive income. Unlike web development that requires contracts, client meetings, continual coding, development, and so on, plugin developers can run more of a one-and-done kind of business.
    Make your plugin and then watch it sell on marketplaces like Code Canyon or Creative Market. (Don’t forget to offer support for it, too!)

    5. Develop Premium Plugins for Your Website

     

     

    As a plugin developer you have another option available: you can sell plugins on your own website. This enables you to have full control over your product: where it is sold, how much it sells for, and how it is marketed. This will also give you better insight into who is purchasing your product, so you can follow up when you have new products or services that may interest them.

    For Designers

    6. Design Premium WordPress Themes

    If you’re interested in pursuing this line of work, remember who the audience is. You’re not only catering to WordPress developers who know how to modify themes and supplement them with plugins. You’re also targeting novice users who want an easy way to set up a site that looks professional and works flawlessly. So your goal should always be to create a high-performing WordPress theme that doesn’t leave users with an exorbitant amount of work to do on their own.
    In terms of making money, the process is the same as with plugins. The main difference being the marketplaces where you can sell them. Creative Market and ThemeForest are the most popular. You can sell these on your own too, but I’ll cover that a little later.

    7. Design Premium WordPress Child Themes

    Creating a WordPress theme may not be the hardest thing to do, but competing in the increasingly competitive premium theme market can be quite difficult. But by creating premium child themes for parent themes (like Divi, Genesis, and many more) who already have large customer bases you can market to is a great way to get into the theme business.

    8. Design Premium Divi Layouts

    A robust economy has sprung up around Divi, which is one of (if not the) world’s most popular premium WordPress themes. An enterprising designer could make a tidy business by creating useful and attractive Divi layouts that their customers can quickly implement.

    9. Design WordPress Websites as a Service

    Then of course there is the classic web design service angle. Whether you’re using Divi or another WordPress theme designers specializing in WordPress tend to have more than enough business to keep them busy.

    10. Design WordPress UI & UX

    WordPress is a developer dominated niche. Which means there are loads of themes and plugins out there that could use some user interface and overall user experience design love. If this is your specialty you could simply start by approaching developers for themes/plugins in the official WordPress repository which you feel you could help improve.

    Sales & Marketing

    11. WordPress Marketer

    Developers and support professionals who offer add-on marketing services may know which tools should be included with each website, but they might not know what to do with them.
    If you’re a marketer by profession and have a great handle on the platform, why not build your marketing business around WordPress? Help clients effectively make use of the best marketing tools and techniques for their websites—all within WordPress.

    12. Affiliate Marketing

    One of the best ways to make money is through affiliate marketing. Basically, you include promotional links to someone else’s content or products on your website. Then you receive a commission whenever someone’s click-through leads to a sale. The great thing about this is you don’t have to be writer in order to make this work. Developers, designers, marketers, website flippers… anyone with a website can do affiliate marketing.
    If you’re just getting started, consider using one of these affiliate marketing plugins.

    13. Website Flipping

     

    Website flipping is very similar to the concept of real estate (or house) flipping. Developers purchase the domain, hosting, themes, plugins, and any other tools needed to create a new website. They create niche-specific content for it. Then they sell it to someone in that niche who needs it.
    A website flip could be as simple as buy-setup-sell. But if you’re really looking to make a profit, you’ve got to optimize your website for search and get a steady flow of traffic coming to it.
    If you’re short on time, look into Flippa. You can purchase a website that was already built, enhance it with necessary plugins and make other value-add adjustments. Then turn it for a profit.

    14. Website Hosting

    If you want to start your own website hosting business, you’ll have to first consider who you’re up against. There are the popular hosting companies like GoDaddy and HostGator. Then there are the WordPress hosting specialists like Pagely and WP Engine. To enter into this field means you need to not only understand server technology and infrastructure, but you’ll also need to be skilled in customer support, WordPress optimization, marketing, and more.
    Consider building a team of customer support professionals before launching your business. While 24/7 support may not be possible, you’ll at least need to offer coverage during standard business hours.

    15. WordPress eCommerce

    WordPress ecommerce is a bit vague in terms of defining what exactly is being sold. That’s because it depends. You could sell WordPress themes, plugins, or premium content (like white papers, books, etc.) You even create a marketplace for developers to sell their products from. Don’t be afraid to get creative.

    16. WordPress Memberships

    While a WordPress membership website is a type of eCommerce business, it differs in its approach to sales. eCommerce websites tend to depend on the one-off purchase of a theme or white paper, while membership websites focus more on building relationships.
    If you choose to run this type of business, keep in mind that your customers will look to you for more than just buying a reliable plugin. They’ll want your support and advice, too. You should be willing to regularly engage with your audience and prospects via social media, newsletters, and your blog.

    17. WordPress Job Listings

    For WordPress professionals on the hunt for new work, it can be difficult sifting through job site after job site, trying to find something within WordPress. On the flipside, it can be difficult for companies to find the right WordPress talent to fill their jobs.
    If you have the patience to track down jobs from multiple sources every day or you want to give freelancers a place to post their resumes, consider creating your own WordPress job website. Also, make sure to have a plan in place for making money on your site. You may want to skip charging for memberships and focus on upselling premium content. You could also offer professional resume or job candidate matching services.

    For Writers

    18. WordPress Reviewer

    Consider yourself a jack of all trades, but master of none when it comes to WordPress? Think about putting all that knowledge to use and become a WordPress reviewer. If you’re already testing out the latest plugins, themes, and other products, turn all that experience into something others can use in order to make their own decisions.
    Also think about building relationships with WordPress experts, developers, and designers. That way, it’ll be easier to leverage those connections into paid sponsorship's in exchange for a review, link to their content, or ad placement on your site.

    19. WordPress News Blogger

    If you think about how often users have to update WordPress, plugins, and themes on their website, chances are good that many don’t take the time to read through the changes or patches associated with them.
    WordPress news websites can be extremely helpful in this regard. You can announce upcoming patches and updates before they happen, discuss changes going on with the tools everyone regularly uses, and more.

    20. Tutorial Blogger

    If you happen to know WordPress really well and have practical insights you can share with the WordPress community, there’s no sense in keeping all that information to yourself. Think about becoming a tutorial blogger. Develop written tutorials and record videos that demonstrate how to use the tools and techniques WordPress users need to know about or that they aren’t necessarily using correctly.

    21. Web Design and Development Blogger


    The WordPress community is huge and is always in need of good insights related to the work they do within the platform. If you know a lot about web design, want to report on upcoming trends, or develop lists of the top plugins and themes every WordPress professional needs to use, this could be the perfect gig for you.

    22. WordPress Interviewer

    Do you have close relationships with WordPress experts, professionals, leading companies, or rising stars in the space? Maybe you just really enjoy getting people to open up? Think about conducting those must-read or must-listen-to interviews, and then share those expert insights with others in the community.

    23. Podcaster

    For writers and other WordPress experts who also happen to be great (behind the scenes) public speakers, start your own podcast. Focus on speaking to one specific type of WordPress user, like the novice webmaster, the freelancer looking to grow their business, or the designer. Then you can better cover topics, news, and tips that interest your audience most, rather than try to satisfy everyone.

    24. Contributing Writer


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    If you are particularly passionate about WordPress and want to contribute related content to other websites, there’s definitely a need for writers. You can reach out to your favorite WordPress-related website and see if their blog needs another contributor. Or you could pitch content ideas to non-WordPress websites that target small business owners, entrepreneurs, and others who may find those insights valuable when working on their own sites.

    25. Write and Sell Books


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    Writers who have built up a steady stream of content on their websites, or who have something new and particularly useful to share, can turn their writing into exclusive content.
    eBooks, non-fiction books, and white papers are a great way to share your content and make a profit. Also think about offering “free” downloads to your ebooks in exchange for visitors’ contact information.

    General Ideas

    26. WordPress Consultant

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    There’s a lot of money to be made if you can provide WordPress services or sell a WordPress product. But sometimes people want to learn how to do it on their own, and they just need a little guidance to get started. You may also find that companies with a well-established website need an expert outsider to weigh in on what’s working and what isn’t. If you have that knowledge and also have great people skills, consider the consulting route.

    27. WordPress Instructor


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    Another way you can make money with WordPress is to teach others how to use the platform. There are a variety of outlets through which you can work as an instructor. You could provide one-on-one advisory or consulting sessions in person or online. You could also reach out to your local community college to see if they’re in need of a WordPress lecturer.
    Whether you want to focus on the basics or provide more advanced coding and design tutorials, there’s an audience for it.

    28. eCourses


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    No matter what your personal expertise is, with WordPress and the right learning management solution you could turn that expertise into a premium ecourse.

    29. Virtual Assistant


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    Similarly, you don’t have to be a star developer or designer to use WordPress as a means of selling your other skills. For some, that may be as simple as selling their ability to stay organized and efficiently knock out a to-do list. That’s why setting yourself up with a WordPress website and a booking solution could be just the right approach to marketing your virtual assistant services.

    30. Premium Forums


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    Do you really enjoy solving problems for others, but don’t necessarily enjoy the relationship-building aspect that comes with it? A WordPress customer support forum would be perfect then.
    Create a website or forum where anyone can submit their questions or issues—to you and the community at large—and then you can respond with helpful insights and instructions. Or you could set your site up as an ongoing subscription service for WordPress users that want WordPress support, but don’t have any other reliable resource to reach out to.

    Final Advice

    Before I close this post out, let me leave you with some final tips for setting up a WordPress business. Elegant Themes covered some business best practices and tips last year, but I want to expand on that a bit more as it pertains to the WordPress business ideas discussed above:
  • Don’t sell a service, sell a solution.
  • Practice what you preach, i.e., create your own site with WordPress.
  • Create a portfolio of your work and make sure it is high-quality and professional.
  • Gather testimonials and create case studies for your business. Social proof is everything in the digital age.
  • Blog about your business and WordPress regularly.
  • Find a niche and stick with it.
So there you have it, WordPress creatives and experts: 25 ways you can make money with WordPress. If you take a closer look at each of these, you’ll see that there are even more niches you can carve out for yourself—especially if marketing is your thing.
Now over to you: What are some more WordPress-related business ideas?
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Configure your newly created WordPress website

WordPress Admin Screens

  • Go to yourwebsitename.com/wp-admin.
  • Type in the username and password you previously entered during the WordPress installation process.Your WordPress admin menu is available on the left side of the screen. Allowing your cursor to linger over them will open sub menus.
  • Dashboard
  • Posts
  • Media
  • Links
  • Pages
  • Comments
  • Appearance
  • Plugins
  • Users
  • Tools
  • Settings

Customizing your site’s Appearance and activating a WordPress Theme


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Themes (Appearances > Themes)

  1. Open Appearances > Themes. From here on have a look at the heading of each subsection if you have doubts with regards to accessing a particular part of the WordPress menu from the admin screen.
  2. And click on the “Add New” button on the top. And choose from one of the themes displayed or search for a specific theme. For a list of awesome free themes, you can check out here.
  3. Install a new theme that you fancy and activate it.
  4. The next part involves customization of a theme. You can access this under from Appearance > Customize. You can do a number of things to your site’s appearance from here. But that’s not the crux of this post, a theme is sufficient to start a website.

    Widgets (Appearances > Widgets)

    Widgets are preset modules or pieces of code that add to a certain function which will prove useful for your website in some capacity or the other. Your sidebars, footers and headers can be loaded with widgets.
    As you can see in the above screenshot, there 6 widgets in the sidebar.  These widgets include a search bar, a recent posts widget, recent comments, archives, categories and meta. Then you can see 4 footer areas where you can add widgets just the same. The number of footer, header and sidebar areas available to you depends on the theme you are using.
    Widgets are not plugins, but they are small chunks of code that add a bit of function. Sometimes it may help with navigation, sometimes with social media, you can even use to add HTML to a text widget which will function as coded to do so. So widgets are a very useful tool but you need to learn a bit about them before you can use them to the fullest. style fixing

    Menus (Appearances > Menu)

    Menus are an extremely important for any website. They offer a means to navigate your site and its content. After all, what’s the point in creating captivating content and if your visitor can not find it easily on your site. Bad menus and navigation can lead to a high bounce rate (the number of visitors as a percentage who leave your site after just viewing just one page).
    You may have seen websites with menus on the top or the side and even at the bottom. We can do all of this.
    You’d like to include pages like “About”, “Blog”, “Contact” and “Our Services” as part of your primary menu. Any page you’d like displayed on your menu can be added. The number of menus and their placement on your site depends on your WordPress theme.
    You can add all the stuff that you see on the left to the menu ranging from pages to products as part of your menu. Again what you can include as part of the menu depends on your WordPress theme.
    A good menu,
  • Is concise and minimal.
  • It is a representation of all your site’s offerings.
  • Very intuitive to use and maneuver around your site.
Keep that in mind and you should be fine.

Background (Appearances > Background)

Many website choose to have plain single color background and I am big fan of that.
The Colorlib blog has a plain white background and it keeps things simple. But the homepage of the site is pretty awesome with a purple background and our tagline

Websites that are media heavy, examples would include photography sites or portfolio websites have great backgrounds. If you want your website to send across a powerful visual cue to your audience use a powerful background image. Else you can simply opt for a plain color which is appropriate for any blog that emphasizes readability.
A background should not be confused with a slider image which is basically a constantly changing image that moves across or your screen or changes with fancy animation.


Adding New Plugins (Plugins > Add New)

Plugins are a scripts or pieces of code written to perform a very specific function or set of functions on your website.
A simple example would be social sharing plugin, it helps share your content across different social platforms and helps get the word out that your content is awesome. Similarly, people have developed plugins for search engine optimization, security purposes, creating and maintaining a portfolio of images, to create contact forms, for caching the list is endless.
If you want to read a detailed list of plugins that we think is absolutely essential, read this comprehensive list of essential plugins.

Adding Pages (Pages > Add New)

Pages on a website help divide your website into a requisite number of pieces to present the different sections of your site’s content. Pages are to themes like widgets are to plugins. With pages you can create specific template styles that can be called on command for different purposes that require the same or similar design. Pages are more than posts and are used for specific purposes on your site. You can create pages specifically to cater to the requirements of a Contact Us Page or perhaps create landing page.

And you are greeted by a New Page, which you can now fill up. From this new screen, you can create a new page and assign page attributes.
If you either need to create a template that you’re likely to use often or need to recreate a section of your site for a specific purpose, creating a page is the way to go.

Comments (Access from WordPress menu)

Websites need readers to make them successful. Comments are a very powerful means to establish a great debate on your site and this only further adds value to your site. Hardly, one percent of the traffic that visits your site will ever comment. And that is assuming that the content is great to begin with. Driving interaction with passive readers on your site is difficult and takes time and effort.
A great post with a pre-existing comment history helps your site receive more comments. Aigars wrote an awesome post on Rimu C a while back, yet till this day it still keeps receiving comments and continues to be a great source of traffic.
And remember, WordPress allows you to link your site when you comment on another person’s blog. And this may send visitors your way, if you play your cards right and make genuine attempts to offer something constructive. For this same reason, many people will leave their comments on your blog as well.
If I feel your content is great and a particular post that you’ve written is awesome, then I’ll almost jump at the chance to leave my comment first and best anyone else to first comment. Because I know eventually it will lead a few visitors back to my site.
Comments are a great way to build an awesome readership and a loyal following for your site.

Adding Content

Content is king may be a cliched line. But it is true now more so than ever before. There are many more websites now than there ever were before. You name a niche, any niche and it is bound to be saturated to the hilt with websites producing content about said niche. WordPress is a very profitable niche. Why? 50% of websites use it and many of them are new to WP. WordPress newbies and even intermediate level users require a few resources to help them get started up and make changes to their WordPress sites, not too dissimilar to the content on Rimu C  But a website like Rimu C works well and generates revenue only when we offer value to our readers.
We publish a great number of articles on premium WordPress themes and should you choose to buy one of them after clicking on our links we receive a small commission on your purchase. But truth be told, our most popular and widely read articles aren’t the ones that describe premium WordPress themes or plugins, rather they are WordPress tutorials and posts dedicated to free themes, plugins and other WordPress related articles. Because it is only when we offer value to readers that our site grows.
So based on your site’s niche and your expertise,  you need to produce content that genuinely offers value to would be readers. If you intend to create your site purely for monetary purposes, it will not be successful in the long run. No wait a minute, it may still be profitable but certainly not as successful as it could have been had you tried to genuinely help your audiences.So focus on good content.
Pick your niche and offer great value to your readers. And watch your traffic grow steadily and if you are lucky, perhaps even go through the roof!
So how do you publish your content on WordPress? What are the formats available to you apart from just plain ol’ text?

Posts (Posts > Add New)

The beating heart of your site or most sites anyway. At the end of this tutorial when all’s said and done, you’ll be here to populate your site with posts. WordPress has a very easy to use posting mechanism and this one of the reasons, it is so popular.
You have two ways in which you can write your posts: one is the visual editor and the other is HTML editor. You can opt to use the visual editor to begin with, but you should know the HTML editor (referred to as text editor) is a very powerful tool to help you create the right formatting for your posts. The sooner you are comfortable with the text editor, the better of you will be. You may notice I am using the visual editor and truth be told, once I’ve added all the necessary formatting I prefer the visual editor.
The visual editor is very much similar to most text editors and permits you to add bold / italic effects to your text, change its font, add bulleted lists and numbered lists, align content differently and add hyperlinks. There is also a distraction free writing mode which gives you a fullscreen version of the editor.

Categories (Posts > Categories)

Categories are a means to divide your content. Categories are a big more important when your site publishes content on a number of issues. You can add categories from your Post editor or you can access it under Posts > Categories.
Now you can name the category to create one and then you can add a slug which is basically a URL add on of sorts for all your site’s posts on that specific category. For example, if I know that Wordpress produces a lot of theme collection content, I can Google search Wordpress+ collections and the first search result link is – https://wordpress.com/wp/category/collections/ . With this I can view only the posts that have been published under the category, “Collections”.
So it is a very effective way to divide your site’s content and make finding stuff on your site much easier for a visitor.

Tags (Posts > Tags)

Tags are very similar to categories, except each post generally has its own set of tags. Tags are a tad more specific than categories but that apart they are the same and they aid in helping visitors find your content more easily.

Media (Media >Add New)

Media as in photos and videos are important to normal websites. They are even more so for media heavy websites. Adding media is easy with WordPress. You can either add media from Posts or you can add media directly to the media library.
You can add the image title, a caption, description to the image. But it is also important you also add the alt text which helps search engines identify your image. It is a small step in ensuring good search engine optimization.
There a lot of effects and stuff you can do to your imagery like make it pop up or use a lightbox with WordPress plugins. But that’s for another day.

Your Profile

Setting up your WordPress profile. This is rather easy to deal with. You can edit your profile from the “Edit Your Profile” on your WordPress admin screen on the top right hand corner. You can describe yourself and add the necessary social media links as well.
And to add a profile picture for your WordPress ID, you’ll need to get a Gravatar account. You’ll need an account from WordPress.com with which you can login to your site’s admin panel.

Just Start!

We have far too many inhibitions, starting stuff is one of them. It opens the door to failure.
Creating the website and generating revenue is no joke. It is hard work, sometimes seemingly unrewarding work.
Over the next few weeks and months, we’ll be launching our “Getting Started With WordPress” post series to help you out.
And apart from that if you need anything else, do let us know in the comments below!

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Choose the right platform for your website

What is a Content Management System?

A content management system (CMS) in simple terms, is a platform of sorts or a mechanism which permits you to create your content and publish it on a website. Let’s say that it is a coat hanger stand with the coat being your content.
It is software that is installed on your host’s server. Your host provider will likely have a one click installation process to help you get your CMS installed. Once it is installed, you can log in to your site as the admin and add photos, text and other content. You can use the content you’ve added to create blog posts and other forms of content like a product page or display a work portfolio on your website.
A CMS is way more than just a means to an end, you can install a theme which is a modified template to suit the specific niche and purpose of your site. With the template added, you can customize the appearance of your site. You can add plugins to add function to your site, for example a social sharing plugin to help spread the word about your site via social networks.
All of this and more can be accomplished with a Content Management System.
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Which CMS is best for you?

An overwhelming majority of websites use WordPress. The other two options that lag way behind in comparison to WordPress (certainly in popularity) are Joomla and Drupal.

WordPress

The ideal option for someone who’s creating his or her first website. It has considerable scalability and works well with low and medium traffic websites. We receive 1.5 million views every month and we run WordPress, so that gives you an idea of what medium traffic constitutes if you were wondering. Even large websites such as TIME Magazine, CNN, TED, Techcrunch, NBC and others use WordPress to server millions of pageviews each day.
WordPress has a great number of points that can be made in favor of its use.
  • Easy To Install: Most hosting services have one click installation options for WordPress given the number of people who use it.
  • Strong Community & Open Source: It is free and used by a lot of people. There are a plethora of free themes and plugins that you can leverage for your site. Apart from the freebies, premium themes and plugins are cheap and come with excellent support services from their providers. If you ever have a doubt or a problem a simple Google search can answer your query. If fact, I’ll go so far as to say you’ll find the answer to your doubts answered by the first three results of a Google search. A strong community will aid in your WordPress initiation process should you ever encounter any hiccups. And you can always drop your comments here either Aigars or me will be sure to respond to the at the earliest opportunity.
  • Ideal For Non tech savvy online entrepreneurs: Most of the products associated with WordPress, such as themes and plugins are fairly straightforward and intuitive to use. Installing a Content Management System like WordPress is only the first step of the process, there is much more to website creation beyond that. Like WordPress which is easy to install and configure, the tools that you’ll require to make your website whole are easy to handle.
Two not so quite favorable things about WordPress
  • One drawback of WordPress, it may become unwieldy if your site grows far too large and receives an enormous amount of daily traffic. The cost of your hosting goes up. But we are talking about traffic in the order of millions here and it isn’t something you should let bother you for now.
  • Another potential problem is the quality of free plugins and themes. While most are good and have fairly high security standards, you’d should be wary of unknown third party plugins. WordPress is a secure platform out the box, but adding third party software while exercising poor judgement is a bad idea. That being said security vulnerabilities are generally fixed as soon as they are detected. Need help
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