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Weekly Links Roundup – Easy WP Guide, Podcasting, Post Excerpts, Yoast SEO

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Here’s our latest selection of curated WordPress and web marketing links to help your business thrive.

The latest edition of Easy WP Guide, an evolving manual on all things WordPress, is available now. You can read it online (recommended) or download a PDF in English or Spanish. Keep in mind it’s  PDF that gets updated frequently….

Looking to start your own podcast? Here’s a roundup of 7 of the best WordPress podcasting plugins right now. One of my colleagues recommended Blubrry PowerPress for a new project this week.

If you ever wanted to change the length of the blog post excerpt, which is by default 55 words, this post is for you. The excerpt is the first bit of each blog post that’s displayed on the blog archive page. Learn how to change the excerpt length with or without a plugin.

If you’ve installed Yoast SEO and used it a little bit to try to get your pages or posts ranking higher, it may still not be clear exactly how Yoast works. Learn what Yoast SEO actually does for you. You don’t have to be a tech wizard to get the benefits Yoast provides.

Did you find this information useful? Please share with your friends and colleagues! And comment below with questions or observations.

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 – Sliders, Yoast SEO, Security

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This week’s WordPress and web marketing links.

Love them or hate them, sliders just aren’t going away. If you’re looking for a slider plugin for WordPress, here’s a fairly new plugin worth checking out: Smart Slider 3. There’s a free version as well as a commercial version with Premium features. For more info, here’s an in-depth review about Smart Slider. From the stellar reviews it sounds like an awesome tool and I’ll be giving it a try myself.

Here is a big, thorough guide for setting up and using Yoast SEO, one of the premier SEO plugins for WordPress.

If you’re concerned about site security and are a DIY type, here are 10 simple tips for securing your WordPress site. Note: you will need to get into the core files and theme to implement all of these.

And finally – yes, I realize it’s June 2016, but this post still has a lot of valuable info. Learn how to do an overhaul of your WordPress site – or maybe put this on the calendar for December!

Get Rid of The Yoast SEO Nag

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If you’re like me you like Yoast SEO (one of the most popular SEO plugins) quite a lot – but you don’t like all the extra junk it comes with, such as this irritating little nag that appears with every update:

Yesterday I found a wonderful plugin called SO Hide SEO Bloat that can handle all these unwanted extras for you, like the nag and the cartoon ads and the tour notification, etc. This plugin gives you a lot of options on what you’d like to see or prefer to hide, including:

  • The sidebar ads
  • The nag bar
  • The SEO score, title, description, keyword columns in Posts and Pages
  • The SEO dashboard widget
  • Featured image size warning
  • and more…

Give this plugin a try and you may be happier with Yoast SEO.