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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 to update the DB with visitor data. You can use it to compare website traffic from the best search engines i.e. Google, Bing, Baidu, Yandex, DuckDuckGo. ...

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, and its affiliate program is active in every country it operates. ...

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 Google web fonts. ...

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 posts on your website, each and every advertisement or URL you’ll add as a widget will be displayed on each post. You may have grouped your posts in many categories. Suppose there are four categories on your website - phones, laptops, tablets, and desktop. Imagine you’ve published an article on a notebook. ...

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 of the search bot and user, it is important that we fix the reported error. ...

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 best experience of the user. You may also have to change image sizes so that the blog posts don’t look horrible or broken. ...

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 scripting language. PHP includes the mail function that accepts some parameters to send a mail to an email address. The function is implement, and many WordPress plugins are powered it. ...

Facebook allows the webmasters to add the Facebook comment form, like box or the page feed to their websites. In WordPress CMS, adding a comment form or the like box is easy, but inserting a page feed is usually a tricky task for a webmaster. Even if the user manages to add FB feed to the sidebar, he won’t be able to customize it unless the user knows the working knowledge of CSS. In such cases, the user should use the free custom Facebook feed plugin. ...

WordPress supports taxonomies. In the WP CMS (content management system), the user can create as many tags and categories as they want. A category is different from a tag. It is used to build a menu. If you create a treemap of WordPress structure, then the categories will always be the child of index or root page. They make navigation easier for the search bots and the visitors. On a small blog or a website, the webmaster should create only a few of them. ...

Dual factor authentication has become one of the most important security features in the last few years. Major websites like Google Mail, Outlook, Facebook are now protecting user accounts in a better way by allowing them to use a mobile device as their identity. To activate 2 step authentication, the service provider will ask you to install Google Authenticator app (or any of its alternative). Some websites will ask you to verify the mobile phone number so that the authentication service will send a 4 or 5 digit code when required. This code will be used for one-time verification, and it will be valid only for a few hours. ...