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INVITE A GUEST
BLOGGER
• Link sharing
• they link to your blog
• you link to their blog
• Use roles to manage
permissions/access
• Edit Flow
(wordpress.org/plugins/edit-flow)
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USE TAGS AND CATEGORIES
(APPROPRIATELY)
• Tags
• keywords
• search terms
• Categories
• general topics/ideas
“music” is a category
“jazz” is a tag
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HAVE AN AUTHOR PAGE
• Create an about page
• Set up Google authorship
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-get-googles-verified-authorship-for-your-wordpress-blog/
http://www.copyblogger.com/wordpress-google-authorship/
http://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google-authorship
fast blog creation - takes about 2 minutes
integrated cdn (photon)
full cms
thousands of free & premium themes
can use custom domains
started as a kickstarter project
replaces instagram
drive all that traffic from a third-party service to your blog
integrates natively with WordPress
connects to WordPress.com or WordPress.org
easily upload photos or videos directly to your blog
create a giveaway, add prices
add ways to enter the contest, lots of social media stuff built in which share the giveaway virally
embed it on your site
while it’s running, you can look at the entries
blogging every day is hard. but it’s easier if you keep drafts ahead of your posts
Drag and drop posts to different days on the calendar
start a post draft for a particular day from the calendar
there are other options, but jetpack adds a lot of other features
if you’re using jetpack already, it’s easy to add a configurable list of sharing buttons to posts & pages
automatically broadcast to facebook & twitter & configure your tweets/posts
adds social commenting -- meaning discussion about your post on twitter will show up automatically as post comments
comments/tweets can be manually imported
takes any rss feed, checks, and publishes to twitter
one of the first services of this kind (and hasn’t really been updated), slow, clunky
integrates with bit.ly and various other url shortening serivices, lets you customize how the tweet will appear
besides twitter, publishes to facebook, linkedin, app.net
also adds a calendar. in this case you can actually assign authors to the posts and see the post statuses
adds custom post statuses
allows editorial comments between editors and post authors
so, if you’re working with a multi author blog or a lot of guest bloggers, it’s a good way to coordinate your posters. it’s probably too much for smaller blogs with a few guest posts.
Using pretty permalinks help your seo score because having keywords in your URL gives your seo for that topic a boost
It’s easy, but requires mod_rewrite (or a web server capability that works like mod_rewrite for nginx/IIS)