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Thesis For WordPress – How To Videos

Tara Jacobsen — Sun, 31 May 2009 19:50:32 +0000

This 18 VIDEO course will walk you through all of the steps on how to use your Thesis for WordPress blog to grow your business. This course is perfect for the beginner who needs to know where to start and for the more advanced user that wants to increase thier blogging knowledge!

BUT wait…:) If you buy this now and we update it later are you going to have to pay more money?!?!? Nope – we will send you notifications any time this page is updated so you can see the new videos FOR FREE!

The Thesis for WordPress How To Video Course Includes:

Beginner Basics – How To Use Your WordPress BlogÂ

Signing into wordpress and an overview of the dashboard
Creating a post
Using relevant links
Comments – How to approve or deny them
Appearance and widgets overview

Advanced Thesis For WordPress Options

Adding a page and navigation
How to use Tags and Categories
How to add plugins
How to add users
Adding YouTube videos to your blog posts – Coming Soon!

WordPress for Thesis SEO Options

What is SEO (search engine optimization) – Part 1
What is SEO (search engine optimization) – Part 2

General Blog Marketing – How can you get the word out!?!?!

Google loves blog posts!
Using Twitterfeed to automatically upload your posts
Market your blog posts with social media
Digg your post!

Special for Marketing Artfully Clients

How to use feedburner
How to use analytics

Before you buy! These are hands on, how to videos that will teach you the real deal BUT they are large files because of all of the content. If you are on a slower internet connection it WILL take them a while to download. If you mind waiting for this great content please do not purchase this product!

Price $24.97 – for the first 5 people then going to $49.97 – AND it is free for all our blog clients!

How To Make Your Blog Load Faster

Tara Jacobsen — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:31:16 +0000

So I am on a mission (again) to try and make my webpages load faster. Sigh.

It is vital that you have a fast website so that when you generate traffic don’t lose them before they even have a chance to know how great your site is! I am going to be doing A LOT of marketing my site in the coming weeks and want to make sure I put the best site forward!

The first thing I did was analyze how fast my site was to start (I like The Website Optimization Site) It told me that I had a lot of objects and to try and combine them, so I did.

Then I made my beautiful header images smaller by reducing the quality of the graphics. Then I took off the My Blog Widget (I know – it is back! It literally reduced the load times by one-hundreths of a second so I kept it!!!). Then I took off the “archives” section as it was just by months and didn’t seem helpful anyways. I made all the sidebar items on the right in one textbox instead of having 5.

And I reduced the load time of my site from 7.68 seconds to 7.49 seconds. Sigh.

The last thing I am trying is to see if I can be a little smart about this. I have two HUGE posts that are showing on the homepage right now (how-to’s with graphics and BIG links). I am going to check and see if I can make a difference by having a post with more text and less graphics. If that is the case I will try to alternate between graphic heavy posts and “plain” posts like this one. On a side note, I already have limited the number of posts that display to 3 which helped the load times greatly the last time I was on this bender!

UPDATE – I have achieved sub 7 second scores! I hit 6.9 seconds. I guess almost a second is okay, not fabulous but better than nothing!!!

UPDATE TO THE UPDATE – I got down to 5.96 by deactivating the plugins that I was not using. I have a couple, like CommentLuv that are frivolous but I like them too and I am keeping them…:)

Blogs are the answer, what is the question?

Tara Jacobsen — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:58:32 +0000

I talk with A LOT of realtors and other businessÂ ownersÂ about whether they should have a blog at all or if they should focus on their website. If it is one or the other I ALWAYS recommend a blog for numerous reasons.

It MAKES you keep up with your site because it looks downright silly to have a blog with the last entry from a year and half ago (and shame on you if you have a website that has not been updated in a year and a half either). The days of being about to spend the big bucks to have a site built that will stand for the next 5 years as a symbol of your business is over! Today’s internet is a dynamic one that addresses current issues and REQUIRES input from the author. Information is the new exchange currency and having an outdated marketing piece for a website just won’t cut it.

It lets the world know how you sound and lets them get to know you better. I spoke with a friend who reads this blog and she said she can hear me talking as she reads. She can see me waving my hands around and emphasising points as I get excited about a topic. Do NOT get hung up on whether you are a good enough author to blog. Do NOT worry that the grammar police are going to come and get you if you say something wrong. If a commenter points something out, thank them and then ban them from reading – JUST kidding! Fix the error and go on with your day. Two of my favorite bloggers who I look forward to reading every day are Seth Godin and Kris Berg. They both have a VERY interesting and ironic style that is compelling to ME. But, no matter what your style is it will be interesting to SOMEONE. Not everyone will like it, BUT if you offer great content and genuine insite into what makes you tick you WILL get an audience.

I tell almost everyone that having a blog means instant access to search engines and clients. You can write an post about how “blogging and niche marketing go hand in hand” and find it on a search engine in DAYS not months or years. The law of large numbers then takes over for you. There are GAGILLIONS of people searching the internet for something interesting RIGHT NOW. No one can know what they are thinking of BUT if you have enough content through blog posts about a subject they are searching for your odds of being found go WAY up.

Blog OR website is YOUR issue, not thiers. Your blog can bring you clients and new clients will NOT be judging you on whether you have a blog or a website. A good portion of the population doesn’t even know what those “new fangled blog thingys” are. If they find you through a search and they come apon your blog, and then they find the information that they are looking for, they WILL NOT care if it is a blog or a conventional site. I found a GREAT example of a web log today that looks like a site! Real Estate Entrophy. Now don’t get me wrong, I am not throwing accolades out about design right and left (I am a graphic artist in a past life) but this a GREAT design! Bloggy enough not to turn off readers but pretty enough that if a real estate client comes along they will not be confused about what to do.

And last but certainly not least, it took about 8 hours to set up this blog. It took over 80 hours to set up my www.cometoclearwater.com website. You do the math!