When running a WordPress blog, most of your work will revolve around writing. That means you’ll also need to spend a lot of time editing your WordPress content to ensure the quality of all the content published on your website.
A lot of changes are coming for WordPress in 2018, and not the least of which is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that the European Union is enacting, beginning May 25, 2018.
The most popular anti-spam plugin for WordPress is currently Akismet (this is helped by the fact that it’s shipped out with every WordPress install). But, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk is a more than worthy competitor.
For the past couple of years, there’s been trouble brewing for certain SSL certificates. (If you don’t know, SSL certificates encrypt data sent between web browsers—like Google Chrome, Mozilla’s Firefox, and Apple’s Safari—and servers.) You can easily recognize if a site has a valid SSL certificate by the familiar green padlock in a URL bar. The point is, SSL certificates are extremely important to online security—which is why you should be aware of the recent findings discovered by Google.
Keyword research is something that starts long before you’re filling in the SEO plugin fields when adding a post. In fact, it is something that should happen before you even start writing. This article will show you why intentional – but not manipulative – use of keywords is so important. Then, it will offer some quick and simple SEO keyword research tips for bloggers.