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Imagine if you could send an email to users based on the exact actions they take. What if you could automatically email anyone who visited a specific page or clicked on a certain button? That would be pretty cool, right? With SendinBlue’s WordPress plugin, you can do just that. Without needing to know any code or set up detailed tracking. It’s a really nice tool. SendinBlue also functions as a complete email marketing service, letting you build subscriber lists and create beautiful email campaigns. Why should you care about all that? Because email marketing is important. I think all smart bloggers need to take advantage of email. That’s why I’m sharing about SendinBlue with you. You can crea...

The Clk.im Integrator monetization plugin is perfect for WordPress publishers looking to make money with their site. Many WordPress monetization plugins have limited functionality, which can be fatal for your monetization efforts. With Clk.im, the versatility of your ad serving goes to a whole new level. (The full functionality of the plugin is unlocked when you sign up for an “Expert”account.) In this article, we’ll go into greater depth of using these features to maximize the monetization potential of your WordPress site. We’ll also cover how you can create trackable shortened links for your entire site. These links will allow you to launch: Top-bar HTML ads Full-page interstitial ads Pop...

As a blogger, you’re probably always worried about writing interesting blog posts that your readers care about. But you can’t just spend time on blog posts – there’s another type of content that you need to focus on: Landing pages. If you ever want your readers to complete an action – like joining your newsletter or buying a product – you need a good landing page to convince them. In the past, you used to have to hire designers to create good landing pages. Luckily, you don’t have to do that any more thanks to some awesome services and WordPress plugins. There are now some great landing page creators that helpyou create beautiful landing pages for WordPress without the help of a designer. So...

Are you looking to move to managed WordPress hosting?If you’ve been using shared hosting but find it no longer powerful enough for you site, this post is for you. I’ve talked before about how shared hosting is best for a new blog. But as your blog traffic grows, you need to think about upgrading your hosting. Shared hosts can’t handle really high traffic sites, which means you’ll have to move up. All the way back in 2008, I started ShoutMeLoud on cheapshared DreamHost hosting. But as ShoutMeLoud grew, I knew I needed to upgrade my blog’s hosting to keep everything ruing smoothly. That’s why I eventually made the switch to managed WordPress hosting. I moved through a few managed hosts until ...

Do you know you can change your domain name without losing search traffic? Yes, it’s possible. But once you have changed your web address, you need to do some post-site address change things to ensure you don’t lose organic traffic. If you don’t tell Google about this change of address,you might be putting your site’s organic ranking into danger. Let me help you with fixing this potentially big error. (In the below example, I have placed a URL change request using the Google Search Console. The process is the same for anyone needing to change their domain.) Let me first give you a background of why I had to change the URL of one of my popular niche blogs. If you are a regular reader of Shou...

The whole world is moving their websites from HTTP to HTTPS! Why? Because it makes their sites secure &rumor has it thatsearch engines favor websites using the “https” protocol. Sooner or later, you will be moving your site to HTTPS. But before you do, you need to consider a few factors in order to make a successful migration from HTTP to HTTPS. In this article (& in upcoming articles), I will cover migration techniques for different scenarios. Here’s our first scenario: The site is hosted on a Nginx server. DNS is managed by CloudFlare. SSL certificate by Let’s Encrypt. Let’s Encrypt + Nginx + CloudFlare : Scenario 1 In this case, my hosting people configureda free SSL certificate ...

Tweet your post multiples times! Keep tweeting your old evergreen posts! Stop your old posts from dying by resharing it on social media! These are all pieces of advice you have likely heard before in order to keep driving traffic to your old blog posts. In fact, I have written several guides myself to help you overcome “dead, old post syndrome”. Today, I have an interesting Twitter plugin to share with you which will not only drive traffic to your old posts, but doesn’t make it look like you are tweeting the same thing over. Before we move ahead, I suggest you read these few posts to master the art of overcoming“dead, old posts syndrome”: If you have already used the popular Revive Old Post...

A robust email subscription list is the key to any successful online business regardless of the niche you’re in. A powerful email list not only helps you get more traffic but also lets you make a stronger bond with your audience. Its ability to generate online profit effectively makes it a cardinal marketing strategy of any website. Once you have a robust list, it becomes much easier to convince your trusted audience about your products, thus making the conversion process easier. Now the biggest question comes – How do you get more subscribers? Unquestionably, professionally designed optin forms along with some enticing incentives to subscribe are essential for developing email list optins. ...

ThemeForest & CodeCanyon are two very popular places to buy premium WordPress themes & plugins. Here at ShoutMeLoud, we have featured many useful themes & plugins from these stores. (At the end of this post, you will findlinks to those articles.) One of the challenges that users like you & me face after purchasing aproduct from both of these stores is updating. I have purchased a few plugins (like WP LinkStatus)& it’s a pain to download updated versions and manually update them. Well, today is a good day, as now we have an official WordPress plugin called WP Envato Market that will make the updating process automatic. Sound good? In this tutorial, you will lea how to use...

Comment spam is the harsh reality and every green behind the ears, enthusiastic, unprepared blogger will be staggered by the sheer volume they receive of it. WordPress can help, but you need to mentally prepare yourself for the hard fact that more than 99% of the comments you will receive is going to be spam. If you leave the issue unattended, the spam can quite literally overtake your site database and get you permanently baed from search engine index. The first thing on your to-do list should be to prepare your website admin (backend) to help you deal with such massive amounts of bull. That’s where WordPress bloggers have an advantage. As much spam there is, there are quite a handful of po...

There are many WordPress plugins out there and every day a new and exciting WordPress plugin is launched either on WordPress plugin repo or on any premium WordPress marketplace. I like discovering new WordPress plugins and especially when a popular website is using it, I find it quite tempting to know what plugins that website is using. There are few ways by which you can find the list if plugins on a WordPress blog, but there is no way to know the complete list until blog plugin folder is publicly accessible or you have FTP login for that blog. Though there are still few work-around to get the list of plugins which I will list down here. Before that you should check out my earlier post on...

Choosing a hosting for your new blog is tough. Most of the newbies usually like to start with a free hosting to lea WordPress & try things out, and after leaing, they prefer to move to premium hosting service later on. Are you one of them? Do you want to start a quality blog on WordPress for free? If yes, today I am going to share four best WordPress Hosting for newbies that are free. List of Free Hostings for WordPress 1.x10Hosting.com It’s is one of the oldest hosting provider since 2004 and provides cool offers and features at azero cost.Here are some of its features:- It has the latest version of Cpanel. Private Cloud hosting. Advanced versions of MySQL and PHP. There are never any...

Kinsta hosting is not new, but a few of you might not knowabout it yet. Kinstais one of the top names in the Managed WordPress Hosting industry & is also where ShoutMeLoud has beenhosted for the pastyear. A few days agoI upgraded my plan which now lets me host up to 20 WordPress sites. I will leave the full detailed review on Kinsta for another day, but if you are interested inleaing more about them, you can do so from the following two links: The other day I had to add a sub-domain to my blog (which is hosted on Kinsta) and install WordPress onto that sub-domain. Sub-domains are helpfulwhen you wish to add new stuff to your existing domain. What kind of stuff? Well, you can add many new...

WordPress.com is a good blogging platform to start your career with, but over the time when your realize the real potential of blogging for yourself, for your business or for making money, you want to move your WordPress.com blog to a self-hosted WordPress (WordPress.org). This is a detailed guide for you to move your free WordPress blog to your hosting. If WordPress.organd WordPress.com terminology is confusing you, you should read my earlier guide on the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org (Self hosted WordPress). Now, since you and I are on the same page, it’s time for you to take that big decision which you wanted to make it for long, and migrate your WordPress.com blog t...

If you are one of those bloggers who is using a free WordPress theme, you are likely changing your theme around a lot. Two of the most commonly asked questions regarding changing a WordPress theme are: Will it affect myblog’s SEO? Will it affect myblog’s traffic? The answer to this question changes with different scenarios, and I will try to answer this question from all angles with regards toWordPress, SEO, and traffic. But before I move ahead, there are a few things that you should know: Many WordPress themes like GenesisandThesiscome with built-inSEO options, and if you are using the theme’s SEO feature, chances are high that your blog’s SEO will be affected. If you are using anSEO WordP...

I remember a time when compressing images on this blog used to be free. Thanks to developer of the Smush.it plugin, we got very spoiled and became used to free image compression. In the last few months, everything we know about free image compression has changed. Now, most of the WordPress plugins which are available online offer a small quota of free compressions & then you have to pay. So in this post, I though it would be a good idea to look at all the existing image compression tools out there (free & paid). Those who have a small or medium sized WordPress blog can use multiple WordPress plugins to optimize all of their existing/future uploads for free. It might be time-consuming...

Are you plaing to shift your WordPress site to managed WordPress hosting?.. .. Want to evaluate & understand the good & bad side of Managed WP Hosting? Well, let me share what I have leaed after spending almost $6500 in last three years by hosting ShoutMeLoud on various managed WordPress hosting. If you are new to this not so new form of hosting, start by leaingwhat is managed WordPress hosting. You will also lea about features and advantages you will get with them. Now, as we all know there are two sides of coins and same goes with managed WP hosting. However, there is no as such limitations or bad thing about Managed WP hosting, but there is few downside, especially for tech-savvy ...

So you started blogging on WordPress our of passion & like million others you started your jouey with entry-level shared hosting. Now your blog is getting great traffic & it’s becoming a source of your bread butter, just like mine. One fine day, your existing hosting company emails you to “Buzz off” as they can’t handle your website load.In most of the cases, a non-technical blogger would feel dishearten, dissatisfied & helpless. I had been that situation when ShoutMeLoud traffic grew from hundred of page views a day to 10k+ pageviews a day. Have you ever felt the similar situation? If your answer is “No”, then you are probably already on a hosting company that can handle high t...

A clean, minimalist theme for any website is equivalent to abreath of fresh air in the inteet space. With all the ads, pop-ups and flashing text one may see in a day of browsing the web, minimalist blogs and websites offer focus and clarity. In addition to being clutter-free, minimalist themes tend to improve site speed as they are generally lightweight and well-coded. There are literally hundreds of minimalist themes that have been released for WordPress, as it continues to be the trend for blogs that plays importance in their content more than anything else. What Minimalist WordPress themes are for? Minimalist themes are made to limit your blog visitors to doing only one thing: read your ...

Will they come back? To be profitable and celebrated, yourwebsite needs retuing visitors. Now, the content you provide on your site will have the biggest impact on whether or not people retu, but there are other factors too. One such factor is your domain name. Have you ever read an article you really liked or found an interesting fact online, and then forgot where you found it? You may try to Google it, but sometimes you just can’t find it again. You don’t want that to happen to your site. You want people to visit your site, be struck bythe brand name, and never forget it. This will make all of your promotion a little bit easier. Just think, if you do a great job picking your name, every si...