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How to Spend Money to Make Money With Your Website (And Why)

Spend money to make money

Do you really need to spend money to make money? If you’ve ever tried to make money, someone has probably told you that you need to spend money first. But we’re not talking about brick and mortar businesses in this post – so is this adage still true if you want to make money online with your own website? I mean, there are free web hosts, free SEO tools, and lots of other “free” things that can help you grow your business.

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How to Move a Website to a New Host (Without Downtime or Issues)

How to Move a Website to a New Host

Trying to figure out how to move a website to a new host without breaking anything, causing downtime or any other issues that could hurt your Google rankings? As with any move, moving your site to a new host can feel a little daunting, especially if you haven’t done it before. However, it doesn’t have to be, and with the tutorial that we’ll share in this post, you should be able to move virtually any website to a new host.

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How to Use GTmetrix Speed Test Tool + Improve Your GTmetrix PageSpeed Score on WordPress

How to Use GTmetrix Speed Test Tool

If you want to improve your WordPress site’s performance, you need to know where you’re at right now. That’s what the GTmetrix speed test tool helps you with. With GTmetrix, you plug in your site’s URL and GTmetrix spits back your current performance metrics, along with scores, recommendations, and analysis tools to help you optimize your site’s performance.

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On Page SEO Techniques for WordPress: 15+ Do’s and Don’ts You Must Know

On Page SEO Techniques for WordPress

On page SEO techniques … I think this is the part where I tell you that “content is king” and if you create “high-quality content,” Google is going to love you and magically rocket your site to the top of the rankings without any additional effort on your part. Unfortunately, in the real world, creating great content alone isn’t a ticket to the top of the SERPs – you also need to optimize that content using on page SEO techniques that you’re going to learn in this post.

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5 Best High-Traffic WordPress Hosting Providers (2024) 🏎️

Best High-Traffic WordPress Hosting Providers

If you’re looking for high-traffic WordPress hosting, your focus is obviously going to be a lot different than someone looking for cheap entry-level WordPress hosting. Price becomes less of a factor, with performance and reliability taking center stage. To help you find the best hosting for your high-traffic WordPress site, we’ve collected five great hosts that are used by real-life high-traffic sites.

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Build for Gutenberg: How Plugin and Theme Authors Are Addressing the Transition to Gutenberg

Build for Gutenberg: How Plugin and Theme Authors Are Addressing the Transition

At WordCamp Europe 2018, Matt Mullenweg laid out a rough roadmap for Gutenberg over the next several months. In July, there’s going to be a big push to increase Gutenberg adoption, with a 5.0 beta in play for August (or beyond; actually, probably beyond). The impending integration may have you wondering how WordPress developers are planning to build for Gutenberg.

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How to Use the WordPress Block Editor – Your WordPress Gutenberg Guide

WordPress Gutenberg guide

Back on December 6th, 2018, with WordPress 5.0's release, WordPress got a new default content editor. Called the WordPress Gutenberg editor while in development, "Gutenberg" is now known as just the "WordPress editor" or "block editor" if you want to be more specific. This tutorial explains everything you need to know to get started with it.

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Your Default Blog Homepage Sucks: How to Build a “Start” Page Instead

Blog homepage

If you’re like most bloggers, you spend a ton of time on your blog posts. Crafting the perfect headline. Writing that intro that grabs readers just right. And while your posts certainly are important…how much time does that leave to spend on your blog homepage? Or, maybe a better question – do you even have a WordPress blog homepage that’s not just a list of your most recent posts?

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How to Create a Physical Product Marketplace Like Etsy (on WordPress)

physical product marketplace like Etsy

TL;DR: “WordPress and eCommerce”? Who would have guessed just 5 years ago that this would be a viable possibility. Surely not anyone in my university class. Nevertheless, we’re here. And WordPress is now perfectly capable of handling an eCommerce business of any type, basically. So to check the extent of that, we’re looking into the topic of creating a physical product marketplace like Etsy … all on WordPress.

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