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Joomla or WordPress? Tough Choices For Your Website

Choosing a great content management system (CMS) is the toughest decision for website owners as wrongly chosen CMS can easily backfire later. WordPress and Joomla are undeniably the two most demanded frameworks in the market, but which of them is ahead in making a tailored solution is worth knowing. While both are obvious in their purpose, the choice depends on your business goals, purpose and obviously the budget. So, choosing any one of them need prior consideration and discretion. The following points compare WordPress and Joomla on the basis of technical qualities to help you understand which one reigns to be the best choice of framework for your next web project. #1 Ease-of-use WordPress is known for its straightforward approach and simple user interface. WordPress powered site can be used by anyone with minimal technical expertise. It is user-friendly with most menus, navigation options within a hand’s reach. Similarly, there are no as such hard and fast rules of using Joom...

5 Reasons Why It Can Benefit To Use a WordPress Store Locator

If you are building or managing a website for a business with several bricks-and-mortar premises, a dedicated WordPress store locator added to the site is certain to be a useful idea. This is a practical feature to include on a site to make it possible for potential visitors to easily find the closest office or store to their location. Here are a few of the most appealing features of this type of plugin: Google Maps Most of these plugins make use of Google Maps to get instant access to a wide range of information such as driving or walking directions to reach the intended destination in the shortest time possible. Plus, the Google Maps plugin makes it possible to view the landscape in several different views and even zoom in to inspect certain areas to make sure the specific directions are practical for the needs. Responsive design Any of the latest plugins should include a responsive design that easily works with the different size screens on mobiles and tablets. Many of the mobile su...

Let A WordPress SEO Plugin Teach You To Write Search Engine Optimised Content

It is important that the content of your site is properly optimised for the search engines and you can install a WordPress seo Plugin to help with this – there are many available. If your content is properly optimised the search engines will understand what your page or post is about and that it is highly relevant to the chosen keyword (or keyword phase). You will then be able to get the page or post highly ranked with the minimum possible number of backlinks. If your page/post is not optimised you will need to build many more backlinks to get it ranked. There are many WordPress seo Plugins available to help with setting up on page seo in WordPress but I want to look at a plugin called “SEOPressor” which is slightly different. The purpose of this WordPress seo plugin is to check your page or post after you have written it and give it a percentage score for search engine optimisation. It also provides recommendations for improvements which you can then follow, with ...

WordPress Vs Joomla

When it comes to choosing a CMS, I am often asked which is better – Joomla or WordPress. Though they are both uniquely and powerfully different, they have many similarities as well. Both Joomla and WordPress are open source software, which allows them to be easily customized to suit your needs, it often becomes a daunting task to decide which one is better to use. So, we bring you a comparison between both Joomla and WordPress to help you make an informed decision: Basic function: In WordPress: WordPress is a website engine, which allows the entire work installing and running the system, as well as publishing basic content a breeze. In Joomla: Joomla is for managing and publishing a bouquet of different content types, in diverse ways. Primary use: In WordPress: Though it began as a blogging tool, it has evolved into a full-fledged CMS. You can check the blogs of the NY Times to get a peek into what WordPress can do. However, WordPress still caters mostly to newbies. In Joomla: It ...

How to Display AdSense on WordPress With AdSense Plugins

While WordPress itself is a robust and complete blogging system, to really maximize the software and make money from Google AdSense you’ll need to install and use a couple of AdSense “plugins”. Most of the plugins can be found by doing a search on Google, and installation is simple and straightforward. All you need to do is upload the plugin to your web host using an FTP, and activate the plugin inside your WordPress administration area. 1) AdSense Deluxe WordPress Plugin The first and most important is a plugin called “AdSense Deluxe”. While this plugin will help you to display AdSense ads on your blog, it also serves other purposes. You can use this plugin to insert Javascript, PHP and almost any other type of code into your blog posts. The AdSense Deluxe plugin will allow you to insert AdSense ads into your blog posts by including a simple code like this: You can create multiple ad formats in the plugin’s settings page, and you can always change t...

Earn Money Online - SEO With WordPress Plugins

seo , Search Engine Optimisation, is the process and activities through which we can make it easier for Search Engines to list and then send traffic to our web sites. These are split into on-site and off-site seo , and in this article we’ll be concentrating on what we can do on-site, within a WordPress blog, to maximise traffic. Why WordPress? It”s insanely popular, easy to customise, and the Search Engines love it because every post is latently Search Engine Optimised. This is why WordPress blogs consistently rank higher than similar sites under the same keywords. As good as WordPress is, there are ways to make it better, and easier to get listed. This is done mostly through plugins. They’re very easy to find and install from within WordPress admin – under the plugins tab. Installation instructions are beyond the scope of this article, but if you get stuck then help is easy to find. Just Google ‘how to install word press plugin’. ‘Google XML S...

Top 10 WordPress Plugins to Boost and Get More Traffic

There are so many ways online to increase your blog traffic indirectly or directly via some top 10 WordPress plugins for 2013. By Using the WordPress plugins listed below, you can also boost your SERP’s rankings and readers engagement for more traffic. These great plugins are easy to use, free, and can have a significant impact on the number of visitors to your blog. Now with the help and use of these top 10 WordPress plugins, one can get massive traffic building opportunities available through seo , social networking/bookmarking and readers etc. So let’s check the checklist of Top 10 WordPress Plugins to get more traffic in 2013. Top 10 WordPress Plugins to Boost Blog Traffic in 2013: 1. YARPP Well This plugin will help you to increase page views of your website. Once installed, it will show links to other popular posts related to a current post at the end that could be useful for your visitors by introducing them to other relevant content on your site. 2. nRelate Related C...

Akismet WordPress Plugin

The bane of the Internet today is spam. Spam is the biggest problem that webmasters have to grapple with. This is because it dampens the experience of users on a website and dilutes the quality of content. Spammers are finding smarter and more creative ways to spam websites everyday. The only way that your website can stand a chance against the advanced technology used by spammers is to use WordPress plugins such as Akismet. Akismet is really a simple script that acts as filter and prevents spam showing up on your website. It specifically filters spam comments popularly now referred to as “spomment”. The Akismet servers are able to filter our spam at a very high level by combining various components and intelligence collected from blogs that participate in pinging. How to use it Akismet is fairly easy to use. A default WordPress installation normally comes pre-installed with this script and all you need to do is to activate it from the plugin page. The next thing you need to...