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Weekly Links Roundup – Yoast SEO, Caching, Printing, Ebooks

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This week’s WordPress and web marketing links.

Yoast SEO can be an overwhelming plugin for newbies. If you’re a beginner, here’s a good, basic introduction to Yoast SEO.

Speed matters. If your site is slow to load, it’s almost certainly having an impact on your business whether you realize it or not. In WordPress, there’s a lot of talk about caching. What is it? How can it help speed up your site? Learn about caching (and other actions to help improve page loading times) in this article. Just FYI, my current favorite caching plugin (when one is needed) is WP Fastest Cache, it’s lightweight and very easy to set up.

You may for some reason want to make your WordPress site print-friendly. The easiest way for most site owners will be with a plugin like Print-O-Matic – learn more here.

Finally… if you’re in the mood for some self-torture, why not turn your already-published WordPress content into an ebook? I’m doing this myself, and it’s a big job for sure. Learn why and how you might want to undertake this adventure in publishing.

 

Friday Link Wrapup: Online Courses, Job Boards, Repurposing Content

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This week’s WordPress and web marketing links.

If you’re interested in selling courses through your WordPress site, Lifter LMS is a really interesting-looking new plugin. It includes:

  • Ability to build multiple courses
  • Enrollment and student management
  • Drip content
  • Paypal integration built in for payments, or you can buy a Stripe addon or integrate with third-party plugins like WooCommerce
  • Quizzes
  • Badges and certificates
  • Grading

You’ve likely seen a lot of scary news lately about WordPress security. Is WordPress safe? I agree with the author that the answer is yes, as long as you’re on a reasonable host and doing your part to keep your site updated, etc. Read the post to learn more.

If you’re interested in running a job board in your WordPress site here are eight plugins that may be just what you need.

And finally…. do you have a ton of blog posts? Looking to repurpose all that work? Consider turning them into an ebook! This is one way to turn blog posts into an ebook (the hard way). There are a few plugins out there for this purpose, but I’ve not tried them. If you do, please comment and let me know what worked for you.

Friday Link Wrapup

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This week’s WordPress and web marketing links.

3 Email marketing practices for all small businesses from Constant Contact.

Another great email marketing resource from Mailchimp: download their free Common Rookie Mistakes ebook.

Using WooCommerce, or thinking about adding this awesome cart to your WordPress site? Here’s a guide to accepting Stripe (my favorite payment processor).

I get asked this question a lot and this post has some good answers: why would anyone want to hack my little website?

And finally, here are 10 SEO myths that just won’t go away.