If you are anything like me, your website is like your baby. You put in a lot of effort, time, and often money to care for it the best way possible, make it user-friendly, and have it run smoothly. In addition to that, you do your very best to keep it from harm. However, just like parenting, when it comes to website security, you won’t always get everything right. One hundred percent safety is just not achievable. So, instead of trying to do everything right, how about concentrating on not screwing up completely? Avoiding the most common pitfalls can often […]
How to Build Your Own Affiliate Website Using WordPress
There are many ways to make money with WordPress. You can become a freelancer (complete with your own portfolio website), open up an online store, or sell WordPress themes and plugins. Another possibility is to build your own affiliate website. Affiliate marketing is an interesting option because you can essentially earn money in your sleep. All you need is a website, traffic, and products you are willing to advertise. The rest sort of happens by itself. If that sounds good to you, in this article you will learn how to create your own affiliate website using WordPress. We will explain […]
Starting From Scratch: How to Generate Traffic For a Brand New WordPress Site
Since WordPress allows pretty much anyone to build a website, the playing field for starting a web venture is pretty level. However, while all sites start from the same place, it’s what happens after the initial launch that determines whether or not it’s going to be successful. The skill that makes all the difference is the ability to generate traffic. Because there is no “build it and they will come.” Nobody is going to just start sending you visitors, you need to make a real effort to attract an audience. Thankfully, there are many ways to do so. To help […]
WordPress is The Best CMS for SEO And Here is Why
Search engines remain one of the best sources of online traffic. A high-ranking page can bring in thousands of visitors to any web presence. For that reason, pretty much every website owner is (ideally) concerned with SEO. We have talked about this topic in the past, for example how to do proper on-page SEO, technical SEO or keyword research. However, just using WordPress is already putting you ahead in the SEO game. In fact, some would argue that WordPress is the best CMS for SEO and there is merit to this view. In this article, we will have a look […]
6 Simple Ways to Create an eCommerce Website in WordPress
Lately, we have been putting a lot of emphasis on WordPress and eCommerce. For example, with posts like 30 real-life examples of eCommerce websites built with WordPress and how to build a WordPress eCommerce site with Shopify. As it turns out, WordPress is an eCommerce powerhouse. Not just because the leading WordPress eCommerce plugin, WooCommerce, is powering almost 40 percent of all online shops. By now, WordPress offers many different ways to build an online store for all sorts of markets and types of products. For that reason, in this article, we want to take a closer look at the […]
How to Build an Online Shop with WordPress and Shopify
WordPress and eCommerce go hand in hand, and many turn to the WordPress platform to build an online shop. We have already covered how to do this in our WooCommerce beginner’s tutorial. Today we want to show you a different way: Shopify. Shopify is a standalone platform that allows users to open up a hosted online shop in mere minutes. At first it might seem paradoxical to mix the two platforms, however, last year Shopify announced the publication of their WordPress plugin and three free WordPress themes. Clearly, this is a move to break into the larger WordPress community and […]
30 Real-life Examples of eCommerce Sites Built with WordPress
One of the benefits of WordPress is that you can use it to build pretty much any site you want. Portfolio websites, blogs, business websites, you name it. No wonder so many famous companies, celebrities, and brands rely on WordPress. Another area where WordPress excels is eCommerce. As we showed you in our WooCommerce beginner tutorial, building an online shop with WordPress is quick and painless. In fact, WooCommerce powers an estimated 42 percent of all eCommerce sites on the web. If that’s not impressive, I don’t know what is. Yet, if you have never built an online shop with […]
10 Easy Ways to Speed Up Your WordPress Website [Case Study]
Many elements make a successful website: Design, content, SEO, mobile-friendliness — to name just a few. Yet, something that has become more and more important over time is website speed. Consumers are impatient. If a website takes too long to load, they move on to something else. How long before they get itchy feet? Two seconds, that’s it. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that visitors are mostly using mobile devices that often have a slower data connection than desktop and laptop computers. As a consequence, WordPress users are hard pressed to make their sites as fast as possible. […]
6 Outdated SEO Strategies You Should Stop Using Immediately
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
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). […]
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