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Dreamhost was started in 1997 and then veryfirst time I used Dreamhost hosting in 2008.Dreamhost is one of those hosting companies that are known for their good work and adding value to the whole industry. TodayI will be sharing Dreamhost promo code that will help you to get a discount tot $50 and onefree domain. In short you will be paying only $69 for one year of unlimited web hosting and onefree domain. Technically a domain itself cost $12, so here you will be paying only $10 for one year of hosting. I have also updatedDreamhost WordPress installation guide, to match with their new dashboard and WordPress installation process. Dreamhost Promo Code and Tips for this discount: Dreamhost is...

You probably know about WordPress and Blogger and likely have a blog on one of them. Now, you are about to start a new blog and are looking for an alteative. So here’s the question: Are there any other viable options apart from WordPress and Blogger? Let’s find out. #1 Tumblr Yes, the first entrant on the list is a hybrid of sorts. At first look, it seems like a potent mix of WordPress and Twitter. It has the right amount of “coolness”. If you are a social butterfly,Tumblr might just do the trick for you. It’s fun to explore and has a magical quality that keeps you hooked with its beautiful UI. I spent a good 15-20 minutes exploring the site while researching for this post. If you are a fa...

When you start a new WordPress blog, one of the hardest choices you have to make is whichtheme to use. Needless to say, it can be a little overwhelming… WordPress is so popular that there are tens of thousands of themes to pick from. And things geteven harder when you have to pick between free and premium themes. Thankfully,there are some high-quality theme providers who you can go to when you start your search. ThemeIsle is definitely one of those providers. They have some of the most popular free themes in the WordPress theme database. Their Zerif Lite theme is the fifth most popular theme and their ShopIsle theme ranks at tenth. To have two themes in the ‘Top 10’ of the WordPress.org pop...

I’m not a native English speaker and here’s my confession: I’m a trained translator with a degree in my pocket. I speak English fairly well, but I never thought I would ever create content on my own. When I got to the English-speaking world of content marketing, I was lost, frustrated, and paralyzed with insecurity. I strongly doubted if I could ever enter a league of those smart guys who create killer content. To be honest, I wasn’t even sure if I could write anything high-quality at all. If you’ve ever been in my shoes, this article is for you. I’m going to share the tips and tricks that have worked (and still work) for me. To begin with, there are only two points you need to consider wh...

Note: This post is a little long, but if you give me 15 minutes of your attention, I guarantee I can make your online appearance more professional. My name is Eric and I’m an editor. I’ve been a freelancer for many years working with various companies, marketplaces, students, professionals, joualists, entrepreneurs, copywriters, travel portals, bloggers, musicians, and all other facets of writers. If you’vesubmitted a post here at ShoutMeLoud, you may have had an encounter with me. Some of those encounters may have been favorable, and others, well, maybe not so much. First, let me start off by answering this question: What is an editor? Editors are essentially grammar nerds. We seek to make ...

On 15th August 2016,India celebrates its 70th Independence Day &being an Indian, here is how we are celebrating this day with our readers around the globe. This year celebration is going to be different for ShoutMeLoud readers around the globe, as we are offering Up to50% discountfrom 13th-16th August. The discount is on all of our products & I have listed the discount offer, coupon that you can avail right now. 70Th Independence day Discount from ShoutMeLoud Affiliate marketing eBook -50% flat discount ShoutMeLoud’s affiliate marketing eBook is the most desired & popular product from our store. We are offering 50% discount on Affiliate marketing eBook until 16th August 24.00 I...

Update: Web-push notifications arenow enabled for the Chrome browser. This article has been updated with new information. How many subscription chaels are you offering on your blog? If you haven’t already enabled themust-have subscription options, you should do that now. With recent advancements in technology, there are now a fewnew methods that you can use to notify your readers of latest posts or important updates from your blog. Today, I will be talking about PushEngage:Aweb-push notification service for WordPress. It alsosupports other platforms like e-commerce sites,BlogSpot,Joomla, Drupal, bbPress & much more. Using the PushEngage service, you give another subscription option to th...

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. ...

If you’ve landed here, you’ve probably spent the time looking for all sorts of solutions to get Stripe to work on your website without an SSL or formultiple different free SSL solutions. As a small business owner, I know paying for SSL or premium plugins can bestressful for start-ups with small budgets. I am happy to share our solution for a FREESSL on your woo commerce website, with FREE functioning stripe payment gateway with- No Coding Needed. Follow the five steps below and you will be ruing in no time! For our example, we have a ruing installation onwww.wearATA.comso feel free to headover there and check it out before you get started. 1. Install and activate all the following FREE plug...

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...

Wow, you’ve just gotten a new visitor on your blog. Congratulations! From the look of things, theyfound your blog posts very interesting and are now wondering if you’re someone they can coect with.Who knows? Maybe you’re a good fit for a potential business partnership. So theydecide to find out more about you. Obviously, the firstplace to start finding more about you is the About Page. (Interestingly, the “About Page” is also the most viewed page of many popular websites.) Unfortunately, your new visitor can’tlocate your “About Page”, or worse, they saw one which sucked. Because of this, theydecide to take theirbusiness proposalsomewhere else because they came to conclusion that you’re not ...

Online courses started a couple of years back, but they arenowbecoming the primary way many people are leaing and getting proficient in various fields. It is: The Rise of the Autodidact and DIY’ers “Autodidact” is a person who teaches themselves. “DIY”means “Do It Yourself”. When I started my first web development business, I had no idea how tocodeand I knew nothing of web development. Armed with a few courses and some online content, I taught myself Python. With this knowledge, I approached a client and closed my first $3,000 e-commerce website project.(I was a commerce major in school.) More and more people are picking up money making skills through online courses and content. A person ma...

Let’s start this article with a story about Steve Jobs and Mac. Many years back, during testing, the Mac took a few minutes to start up. Steve Jobs was furious that it took so long. He had this to say: “Well, let’s say you can shave 10 seconds off of the boot time. Multiply that by five million users and that’s 50 million seconds, every single day. Over a year, that’s probably dozens of lifetimes. So if you make it boot ten seconds faster, you’ve saved a dozen lives. That’s really worth it, don’t you think?” The Mac series of laptops are definitely some of the most solid devices out there compared to their numerous competitors. Compared to Windows, the Mac is: Blazingly fast Not prone to vi...

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...

Optimizing images & using aCDN has become essential for online publishing. A few days back, I talked about thebest image compression WordPress pluginswhere I highlighted some great solutions for compressing images on your blog. Butnot everyone is using the WordPress platform for their website. Many of us are blogging on various other platforms like BlogSpot, Tumblr, orsomething else. What’s the best image compression solution for these users? Well, this is whereonline image compression tools come into the picture. Whenyou search online for photo compressor tools, you will be awestruck bythe sheer number of tools available. To make your work easier andsave you some time, I’m listing some...

As we were landing into the mid of an year, like everybody else, I retrospected and reevaluated my last year’s jouey. I thought it’s the perfect time to start making the changes which Ithought of doing few weeks back or last month or last year. When I brooded about what is that one habit which I want to improve upon and change is, the only thing which came into my mind was to stop complaining. As mindful I strive to be with my words, I always used to end up complaining, be it the weather, job, clothes, relationships, worldly situations, traffic, high prices etc..The list goes on. Have you ever thought of the amount of time you complain in a day. The thing is we have made ourselves so mise...

If you are ruing a tutorial blog or a blog where you write evergreen content, there is no reason that you should stop promoting your old articles. I have already shared tips to promote old blog posts, and today I will be talking about one WordPress plugin, which will help you in social media promotionof old blog posts. Revive old post is a free WordPress plugin which supports Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and will automatically share your old posts on these networks. I have already talked about the importance of tweeting your posts multiple time, and we will be taking the same approach here, but for an indefinite time. We will be looking at tweet old posts WordPress plugin, which is a simple t...

It’s often frustrating to sendan important email to someone and notget a response within an acceptable amount of time. You’re left to wonder whether or not they’ve read the email or if it went to their Spam folder. This predicament can be avoided by using an email tracking tool like Mixmax for Gmail. Mixmax is a free email monitoring and scheduling tool that can be used as a web app and a Chrome extension. Mixmax is primarily designed for email marketing, where you need to track email messagessent to multiple recipients. However, it’s still useful for anyone who wants to know what happened to anemail they sent. Whether it’s for personal or business purposes, tracking an email can help you g...

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...

Howdy Shouters, How are you doing? So another month has passed by & I’m here with many juicy updates related to blogging, last month’s experiences & most importantly, our transparency report. A quick brief for newcomers: Our transparency report is a monthly serieswhere we share all of the important thingsthatwe have leaed so that you don’t have to experiment as much & can take smart,immediate action. Along with this, we also share last month’s traffic+ eaings. This will give you an idea about new traffic sources and/or new income sources that you can applytoyour blog. To get a better picture of why we share such confidential reports, you should refer to these two posts: Why Blog...