How to Videos for Wordpress Blogging

Social Bookmarking Made Simple

This is an overview how to video that shows you what bookmarks are, why to use them and how to bookmark.

Social bookmarking is a great way to get your blog posts noticed, to get backlinks to your Wordpress blog, and ultimately will help you drive traffic to your blog.

It’s not uncommon for new bloggers to be confused as to how and why to use social bookmarking, so we hope this how to video on social bookmarking will help you begin to understand and use bookmarking to your blogging advantage.

Optimizing Your Blog

You’ve probably heard the term “SEO”, and may, or may not know what it means, and more importantly, understand it.

That’s ok.  My best suggestion is that you do not try to absorb and master SEO at this phase if you are brand new at blogging.  It’s something that you can learn, over time, and implement as you go.

For simplification, it stands for “Search Engine Optimization”, and it is how the search engines, and spiders, read your site and then translate into a viable link to be placed in their directories.

So knowing how to optimize your blog, and if what you’re doing is working, is critical to your long-term optimization success.

Blog Tools for Optimizing your Wordpress Blog

There’s plenty of blog tools on the market and even more services that will support you in this effort.

However, there is one free blog tool that I’ve used for a number of years that I would like to share with you in this short video below.
This how to video will explain how to use this free blog tool, what to use it for, and how you can save money using it.  As your Wordpress blog grows, and your SEO knowledge also grows, you will move onto and into bigger blog tools, but all in due time!

If you’d like to learn more, as you go, about blogging, SEO or Wordpress, then be sure to register below for our free report, updates, blog tips, and more…

Wordpress Blogging – What is a Permalink?

A permalink is a piece of code that you can add to your blog to create user friendly URLs for your blog posts.

Now, it is not possible to change the URL of a blog post on just any blogging platform. On a Wordpress Blog it is not only possible, it is also extremely easy to do.

The Wordpress.org software platform enables you, the blogger, to have a self-hosted blog.

Wordpress Blogging  – Why do I Need A Self-Hosted Blog?

The benefit of having a self-hosted blog is that you have complete control of your blog. You control how your blog looks with your choice of theme and you can choose a domain name (URL) that is search engine optimized.

Another benefit of a self-hosted blog is that you control your content and you own your content because it is on your own server and not on someone else’s server. Your blog can never be shut down without your knowledge or approval.

So back to permalinks, after a short digression to Wordpress.

Wordpress Blog – You Control the Permalink Structure

So when you use a Wordpress.org blog you can change the permalink structure to anything you choose. Within the Wordpress software there are a couple of standard permalink options.

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