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• WordPress (wordpress.com)

WORDPRESS.COM

Dashboard

REPLACE INSTAGRAM

• Pressgram (pressgr.am)• WordPress iOS app

PRESSGRAM

WORDPRESS FOR iOS

Dashboard New Post

DO A GIVEAWAY

• Rafflecopter

RAFFLECOPTER

RAFFLECOPTER

SCHEDULE YOUR POSTS

• Keep drafts• Editorial Calendar

(wordpress.org/plugins/editorial-calendar)

EDITORIAL CALENDAR

SHARE YOUR POSTS

• Jetpack (wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack)• Social (wordpress.org/plugins/social)• Twitterfeed (twitterfeed.com)• IFTTT (ifttt.com)

JETPACK SHARING

SOCIAL

TWITTERFEED

IFTTT (if this, then that)

INVITE A GUEST BLOGGER

• Link sharing• they link to your blog• you link to their blog

• Use roles to manage permissions/access

• Edit Flow(wordpress.org/plugins/edit-flow)

EDIT FLOW

EDIT FLOW

EDIT FLOW

GIVE YOUR SEO A BOOST

• “Pretty Permalinks”• Include keywords in post titles• WordPress SEO

(wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo)

PRETTY PERMALINKS

INCLUDE KEYWORDS IN POST TITLES

Including a keyword in your post title will help you rank for that topic in search engine results

WORDPRESS SEO

WORDPRESS SEO…does a whole lot more, too

USE TAGS AND CATEGORIES (APPROPRIATELY)• Tags

• keywords• search terms

• Categories• general topics/ideas

“music” is a category“jazz” is a tag

HAVE AN AUTHOR PAGE

• Create an about page• Set up Google authorship

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-get-googles-verified-authorship-for-your-wordpress-blog/http://www.copyblogger.com/wordpress-google-authorship/http://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google-authorship

GOOGLE AUTHORSHIPIt looks like this:

…so of course you want that, right?

QUESTIONS?

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