Professional Blogging
Insights Into Professional Blogging With WordPress 
Have a look at this very website! FrogenYozurt.Com started off as a personal blog, and has now grown into something much bigger. We call it now an Online Magazine, and there is a good number of guest writers contributing aspects on writing, blogging, cooking, lifestyle, and more. And yes, FrogenYozurt.Com is based on WordPress.
The general conception that WordPress is only suitable for personal blogs is simply wrong. Have a look at the online versions of The New York Times and The Washington Post. Yes, their websites are also based on WordPress.
In this section of our website we are sharing some of our experience gained through several years of blogging, posting, and growing. We will address technical topics and issues, but also general aspects of the blogging life including the myth of making fast money through a website.
Have a look at our posts, and please feel free to add, correct, or share information. Your feedback is appreciated!
General Aspects
- Top 5 Priorities For Running Your ecommerce Website
So you are excited. You have just started your new ecommerce website, and you are anxiously awaiting the first orders. Or, better, you have been waiting anxiously for orders for weeks and not much has happened. Been there, done that, didn't like it...
There is one MAJOR problem with ecommerce websites [More...]
- Totally Fed Up With the Snobby 1&1 Tech Support
My history with running websites, specifically a number of WordPress blogs hosted by various services, goes back for many years, and I always switched and upgraded when I deemed that I needed better server performance or was fed up with snobby tech support. As it turns out, wherever you go [More...]
- A Day in the Life of a Blogger – Thoughts by Wilfried F. Voss
Wilfried F. Voss is the author of The Bleeding Hills. For more information see his website at http://wilfriedvoss.com.
Oh well, my blogging day usually starts at 5:30 in the morning and ends about two hours later. Yes, I do have a daytime job that pays the bills, and blogging, as much [More...]
- Bloggers: Be Aware of Sabrina Jackson, Webmaster of BestFreeDatingSites.net
When you run your blog successfully for a good while, it will happen that people contact you to write guest articles. The obvious purpose is to promote their website and associated service. Nothing wrong with that, and I have always been willing to lend a helping hand provided the subject [More...]
- The Myth About Starting Your Own Internet Business
For more tips on WordPress blogging see our section on Professional Blogging.
A lot has been written about cyber crime these days, may it be the hacking of the communication of large corporations by foreign governments, the raiding of hacker server facilities, stolen identities, and so on. One of the biggest [More...]
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WordPress
- Bloggers: Never Update Plugins Without Updating WordPress
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Today was one of those days when I seriously considered giving up blogging. Blogging is supposed to be fun. The enthusiasm vanishes, however, when you have to deal with technical issues. This morning, for instance, I was unable to [More...]
- WordPress: Neglected Database Management Will Impact Performance
For more tips on WordPress blogging see our section on Professional Blogging.
When you run a website like mine, and you care for visitor numbers, you also need to keep an eye on your website's performance, especially the page loading time. Through the years, I took some hits in terms of [More...]
- WordPress Bloggers: Are You Tired Of Manually Posting On Your Blog?
Just the other day I received one of those promotional e-mails by Shudogg Marketing:
Are you tired of posting on your blog? Do you find it hard to come up with things to talk about?
Well, I have a solution for that!
Never again will you have to manually write on your blog again! [More...]
- WordPress Blogging – Annoying Blank Lines In Posts Or Pages
For those who don't already know, yes, FrogenYozurt.Com is a website managed through WordPress. WordPress is currently the most popular "Content Management System" (CMS), even though it was originally intended for blogs only. These days, even established newspapers like The New York Times or The Washington Post use WordPress for [More...]
- WordPress – Error Establishing A Database Connection
The following scenario will sound very familiar to a great number of bloggers who run WordPress on their own domain: You have maintained your blog for months or even years and added new posts frequently, and during that time period the system ran smoothly without noticeable problems. However, now that [More...]
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Tips & Tricks
- Bloggers: Attract Search Engines’ Attention With Hyperlinks
For more tips on WordPress blogging see our section on Professional Blogging.
Just the other day I received one of those promotional emails asking me if I was prepared for Google's new search algorithm, and, being curious, I followed the link. However, the article about search engine optimization (SEO) did not [More...]
- WordPress Bloggers: Monitor Your Website Statistics Daily!
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If you run your WordPress website seriously, whether you're using it to promote your business or try to contribute to your income by placing ads from affiliate programs like Google AdSense, you should monitor your website's performance on a [More...]
- WordPress Blog: How To Boost The Ranking Of Your Website With The Right Plugins
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Not every WordPress blogger is out to reach the maximum exposure in the cyber world. After all, blogging is about expressing your opinion, writing about those things you love or hate, and letting off some steam. However, for those [More...]
- How To Make $100+ Per Month Through Your Website
For more tips on WordPress blogging see our section on Professional Blogging.
Yes, this post will explain how you can make $100+ per month through your website, and to make sure we are on the same page: I am talking $100 and maybe a little more. I don't promise a $10,000 [More...]
- Ground Rules For A Successful Website
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The key to a successful website is not based on a secret formula, but a simple list that, if followed meticulously, will create a solid basis for good website traffic. Nothing in this post is really new, but those [More...]
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WordPress Plugins
- WordPress Blogger: Don’t Rely On The Google Search Engine Alone
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It is a sad fact of a blogger's life that we all depend too much on Google's daily mood when it comes to search engine optimization (SEO). One day, Google decides that content aggregation is bad and punishes the [More...]
- WordPress Blog: How To Boost The Ranking Of Your Website With The Right Plugins
For more tips on WordPress blogging see our section on Professional Blogging.
Not every WordPress blogger is out to reach the maximum exposure in the cyber world. After all, blogging is about expressing your opinion, writing about those things you love or hate, and letting off some steam. However, for those [More...]
- WordPress: Shopp e-commerce Plugin Damages Website Traffic
For more tips on WordPress blogging see our section on Professional Blogging.
First of all, let me emphasize that it is not my style to "trash" another business' product, but I deemed it important to share my experience with the Shopp e-commerce plugin for WordPress, and that experience was not pleasant. [More...]
- WordPress: Neglected Database Management Will Impact Performance
For more tips on WordPress blogging see our section on Professional Blogging.
When you run a website like mine, and you care for visitor numbers, you also need to keep an eye on your website's performance, especially the page loading time. Through the years, I took some hits in terms of [More...]
- The Most Dangerous WordPress Plugin: Classifieds… When They’re Free…
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So, I had this idea. I am in the process of creating an interactive website for our local community. The idea is that everybody can submit news about upcoming events, opinions, or any kind of information that might [More...]
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