Email marketing is probably incomplete without a good newsletter plugins that add subscription forms in our WordPress sites. There are a lot of free plugins to add newsletter forums to a website, but the features they offer are limited. For example, the MailChimp plugin doesn’t support popups, and it lacks an Ajax based form which makes the sign-up process fast. You can only change the...
Blogging is a type of online business. If you invest money in your WordPress site, your business will benefit from it. In WP, investment is nothing but purchasing premium themes and plugins which help in improving UX. When it comes to plugins, the most important plugin is the one that allows visitors to share blog posts on social networks. Yes! You’ve guessed it right! We’re talking...
BigRock is an India web hosting and domain name registration company owned by Directi, a company with excellent infrastructure and revenue more than 300 MN USD. It is one of the best hosting companies in India. Bigrock is the first choice for people who have just begun their online careers by launching a website., thanks to the cheap web hosting plans. Around million users use it. Bigrock is...
All my websites are hosted on an unmanaged VPS. The VPS has enough of RAM and a decent CPU. It can handle ten high traffic blogs. I had never faced any problems until last week when my website started displaying error establishing a database connection to the visitors instead of the content. This error was reported after I changed one of the table’s structure. Why the heck did I change the...
Blogging is the best way to express thoughts, share knowledge and reviews. Starting a blog is easy, but making money through it is difficult. Many people abandon/delete their websites or fail to succeed online because of the below blogging mistakes: Not using self hosted blogging platform A self hosted platform is one which allows you to install a blog software of your choice on a shared, cloud...
Hosting a website is an easy task, but choosing a company which offers this service is difficult. There are two types of hosting platforms, free and premium. Newbie or wannabe pro bloggers would prefer signing up with a free blog hosting site. An experienced webmaster will avoid it. If you’re wondering what’s the reason for the same, then go through the below cons and pros of FBHS...
WP login.php is the most critical page on a WordPress website. Without it, you will not be able to access the WP-admin area aka the WP dashboard and other users will not be able to register an account with your website. No website owner would ever want a hacker or an intruder to get full access to the WP-admin area. If they do manage to get its access, intruders will delete your website...
WordPress saves the post, settings and other data related to your website in an MSQL database. The DB is handled by the user through CMS with a DB management plugin or through a command line terminal from a remote computer (on unmanaged hosting environment). Sometimes, the WordPress PHP files will not be able to connect to the MySQL server, and you’ll be notified of this error when you try...
Before buying any product from a website or before contacting a business, search engine users will go through the reviews. If the reviews are negative, the user may not communicate with the business or he’ll leave the website without making any purchase. Customers are the best people to judge a product and the best way to get their feedback is by adding a review section to the website...
Google PR is dead, and it will never be updated in the future. Advertisers have started using Moz rank and domain authority to know whether a website is ranking high in search engines or not. One more important factor they consider for checking the popularity of a website is the Alexa rank. Domain authority and MR is generated by inbound link data of a website. Thus, a site with a good number of...
A website which opens quickly in the browser ensures the best user experience and higher rankings in Google search engine. Thus, the first thing that you should do after launching a new website is to check the page loading speed. Pingdom is one of the most widely used website speed checking tools, but it offers limited features due to which many people will use its below 2 top alternatives:...
There was a time when bloggers used the guest blogging technique to create backlinks. For those who are not aware, in Guest blogging, SEO agencies or companies pay website owners or writers to publish a guest blog post with one or two backlinks to another site. Companies use this technique to rank their sites high in search engines. They are constantly in search of high domain authority websites...
Some webmasters are concerned about their online privacy, and they will never use a popular third party analytics tool like Google Search Console, webmaster tools, clicky, StatCounter, and others. To safeguard their website statistics, people use a plugin which will create a database to store data related to websites. One of the best plugin to do this job is WP statistics. The plugin works 24 x 7...
Affiliate programs from e-commerce portals are the best way to earn money online in India. If you have a website with decent traffic and a bank account, you can quickly join them. I’m one of the 1000s of affiliate marketers who are earning decent money with e-commerce based affiliate programs. I’ve signed up with Amazon, Snapdeal, and Flipkart. Amazon is the biggest online retailer...
The font is one of the most critical elements on a website. Developers make sure that the typography of their website is best in class. If your visitor finds that your site is ugly, he’ll leave it immediately without reading the content or making a purchase. There are 100s of fonts that you can use for free, but you will have to spend a lot of time in searching for them unless you use...
The sidebar is one of the most critical section of a website. It not only helps in improving the revenue of a site by allowing users to place adverts above the fold but also helps in decreasing the bounce rate. On WordPress blogs, you’ll find banners, related/latest/popular post’s widget on the sidebar. The content you add to the sidebar will be visible on all posts. If there are 1000...
The Google Search Console tool make us aware of various errors that Google encountered while crawling our website. 404 errors don’t have any impact on the ranking of a website. But if the error is generated because of change in permalink or its structure, you’ll lose traffic from the search engines as well as the social networks. Page Rank will be lost as well. For the best experience...
Sometimes, you may not like your current WordPress theme, and you may think of replacing it with some other template. Themes allow you to export settings. But the settings you back up will be compatible only with the theme i.e. You can’t move settings of a Mythemshop template to TagDiv NewsPaper or Elegant Themes Divi. When you change your template, you may have to tweak the design for the...
We all know how easy it is to create a contact form page in WordPress. If not, then you might be a newbie who should explore the WordPress plugins repository. A contact form plugin will allow you to create and add a customized form to your WordPress website. The plugin will allow the user to add fields of his choice to the contact form page. WordPress CMS has been built with PHP, the server-side...
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