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May 05, 2014

Nick Schäferhoff

Nick Schäferhoff is an entrepreneur, online marketer, and professional blogger from Germany. He found WordPress when he needed a website for his first business and instantly fell in love. When not building websites, creating content or helping his clients improve their online business, he can most often be found at the gym, the dojo or traveling the world with his wife. If you want to get in touch with him, you can do so via Twitter or through his website.

6 Outdated SEO Strategies You Should Stop Using Immediately

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January 19, 2017

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Here at Torque, we are big fans of SEO and have already published plenty of material on the topic: How to Do an SEO Audit of Your WordPress Website 44 of the Best SEO Tools and SEO WordPress Plugins of 2016 WordPress SEO 101: How To Find The Right Keywords For Your Site SEO Copywriting – An In-depth Guide to Rank High and Wow Readers Are we obsessed? Maybe. But why? Because proper SEO can greatly help you increase traffic, improve your search rankings and overall make your site more successful. However, it’s also a field that is constantly changing […]

A Comprehensive Guide to Google Search Console for SEO Success

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January 11, 2017

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In this Google Search Console guide, you will learn how to use the Google tool for your SEO efforts. Formerly known as Google Webmaster Tools, Search Console is a platform for optimizing your online search presence. It contains a collection of reports and tools to find errors, improve search engine rankings and site performance. It will also alert you of malware and spam issues, as well as allow you to learn more about the people visiting your site. Like Google Analytics, being familiar with GSC is very useful for the success of your website (beginner’s guide to Google Analytics here). […]

17 WordPress Web Design Trends We Can Expect in 2017

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January 5, 2017

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The end of the year is in sight. 2016 has come and gone, and that means it is time to reflect on what this year has brought us. Two major WordPress releases so far with another one scheduled for the beginning of December, ten minor releases, the largest WordCamp to date, hundreds of new plugins and themes, and much more. However, it is not only time for reflection but also for looking ahead. 2017 is right around the corner and promises new developments. In that vein, we thought it would be a good idea to try and make some predictions […]

43 of the Best WordPress Blogging Tools 2016 You Shouldn’t Miss

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December 27, 2016

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What are the best WordPress blogging tools 2016? And why would you even need them? Good question. Blogging seems so simple from the outside. Just sit down in front of your WordPress website, type in some words, publish them and that’s it, right? After that, all you need to do is wait until your content gets picked up by Google and traffic comes in, correct? Unfortunately no. People are often surprised to learn that writing is actually just one part of blogging and that a lot more goes into running a successful blog. For that reason, full-time bloggers can use […]

How to Do an SEO Audit of Your WordPress Website

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December 15, 2016

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Taking care of your SEO is one of the most important tasks for any website owner. By failing to do so, your WordPress site stands very little chance of getting significant organic traffic. However, search engine optimization is a big puzzle with many moving parts. Every little thing has an impact on your site’s performance in search engines. For that reason, it is important to learn how to do an SEO audit of your WordPress website Auditing your site means looking at its most important SEO markers to make sure it’s up to snuff. That way, you are able to […]

What is Schema Markup And How Do You Add It to WordPress?

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December 8, 2016

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Anyone who is serious about their website wants to rank high in search engines. It’s the reason we publish a lot of SEO articles here on Torque. To achieve this, two factors are most important: relevance and authority. You can demonstrate them to search engines by writing content for both users and search engines as well as getting your technical SEO up to snuff. Using the right keywords doesn’t hurt either. For human visitors, the relevance of your content is especially important. That’s why in this article we want to talk about an underused way to increase it: Schema markup. If […]

7 Mental Barriers That Are Hurting Your WordPress Business

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November 17, 2016

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We repeatedly mention on this site how easy it is to start your own WordPress business (at least I do). The WordPress platform is free, user-friendly, easy to learn, and offers many different business opportunities. It seems like all you need to do is get started. So why doesn’t everybody? I mean, there is a staggering number of people who play with the idea to start their own online business for years but never pull the trigger. In addition to that, of those who do make the leap, many fail. According to some statistics, 90 percent of Internet business startups […]

WordPress Vs. Tumblr – Which One Is Right For You?

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November 10, 2016

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WordPress isn’t the only free publishing platform out there. By now, anyone who wants to start publishing online has many different platforms to choose from. In the past, we have already looked into how Medium and Joomla compare to the WordPress platform. It’s about time we turned to another competitor: Tumblr. The WordPress vs Tumblr duel is an interesting one. Not only is Tumblr one of the most popular publishing platforms out there, at WordCamp Europe 2016, Matt Mullenweg also called it the most serious competitor to WordPress of the last five years. For that and other reasons, we will talk about […]

44 of the Best SEO Tools and SEO WordPress Plugins of 2016

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November 8, 2016

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Search engine optimization is a complex topic involving many different disciplines. No wonder we have written extensively on this topic before, for example here, here, here and here. Especially website owners who take care of SEO themselves can use all the help they can get and do well using all the tools at their disposal. Last year we already looked at the best SEO tools and WordPress plugins for 2015 and now it’s time for an update. For that reason, below we will have a look at some of the most useful SEO utilities 2016 that will help you make […]

So Your WordPress Site Just Got Hacked, Now What?

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November 7, 2016

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Getting your WordPress site hacked is unarguably one of the worst thing that can happen to a website owner. It’s super stressful and impacts your business, reputation, search rankings, traffic, and much more. A while ago we talked about how WordPress websites get hacked and what you can do to prevent it from happening. However, what if it’s already too late? How do you recover WordPress website that has already been hacked? This is what we will talk about now. In the following article we will look into how to spot whether your WordPress website has been compromised and how […]

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