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HERE are a bunch of How-To books — and some offer a free download.
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Jason Huggins · Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 9:54 pm Post subject:

I'm about to start a rebuild and conversion to a WordPress site, and that is some good resources! Thanks Deebs! You are awesome. (in more ways than one)

Bruce · Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 6:49 am Post subject:

Yikes, too many choices for the semi-technophobe. Any recommendations for beginners anyone?

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Deirdre · Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 1:52 pm Post subject:

I always like the O'Reilly "Missing Manual" books.
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Lance Blair · M&M Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 2279 Location: Atlanta

Thank you. I'll definitely go through this tomorrow. I'm very happy with the functionality and appearance of my new self-hosted wordpress site, but I need to snag the appropriate widgets to help my SEO. I took on the recommended Yoast plugin, but that unleashed a cascade of spam comments (thanks for nothing!). Also, I was looking today into how to get snippets and markups into my new site. I knew how to do it when I published my own code directly, but now it's a much more squirrely endeavor. I know what I need to write, but now I need to figure out where to edit that in my server.
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Deirdre · Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 11:18 am Post subject:

Yeah— that's the big, fat tradeoff for "scalability" and "responsiveness".
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Lance Blair · M&M Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 2279 Location: Atlanta

Yay to awesome website nobody can find!!! Sarcastic

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Deirdre · Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 11:22 am Post subject:

All the awesomeness— all dressed up and no place to show.
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Pam · Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 5:34 pm Post subject:

fantastic resource DB. Thanks! Wish I could find something for the headway theme I'm trying to use.
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Lance Blair · M&M Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 2279 Location: Atlanta

I chose to go with wordpress because I wanted my blog to be a part of my website. I suppose that if I get off my rear and write all the posts I have bouncing around in my noggin then I will have generated a substantial amount of original content...and that's more important these days than traditional SEO techniques anyway, yes?

Old SEO: lead horses to water.

New SEO: make lots of better water.
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DougVox · Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 8:35 pm Post subject:

You've probably seen this already, Pam, but if not, maybe it'll be helpful?

http://docs.headwaythemes.com/
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Lance Blair · M&M Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 2279 Location: Atlanta

I didn't care for the Yoast plugin for SEO, (I mean, what does it do???) but I just got the SEO Ultimate plugin and I like it. An hour later I was able to markup my site and be verified by Google & Bing. You have to have a self-hosted site, upload it to your server and then activate it in your WP dashboard. Voila! My morning call in session got cancelled, so it's Website-o-Rama this morning.
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DougVox · Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 12:09 pm Post subject:

And HERE is a page with a really wide selection of free ebooks...

Tumblr
Pinterest
Feedly
GMail
Illustrator
Chrome
Photoshop
Google+
Linkedin
Reddit
Ubuntu

And yes, even a "How to Set up Your Own Online Broadcast book.
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vkuehn · Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 1:10 pm Post subject:

bransom · DC Joined: 06 Nov 2008 Posts: 650 Location: St. Louis, MO

Lance, thanks for the recommendation for the SEO Ultimate plugin. I just downloaded it and, hey, it (more or less) makes sense! I'd been using the Yoast thing but spent more time scratching my head than actually getting any use out of it.
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