Questions I’ve been asked….with answers on the blog.
Blogging
- I need help getting over how overwhelmed I am with all there is to know!
- Why don’t people comment on my blog?
- What are the biggest problems you find on beginning blogs (from a technical perspective)?
- How do I get more traffic to my blog?
- I notice other blogs with terrible writing and design get so much traffic. Why?
- What are the best blogging tools out there?
- What are some unique ways to market my blog?
- Why should I spend money on my blog when it doesn’t make me any money?
- Where do I put a privacy policy and how do I create one?
- I don’t understand what services I need in order to get a self-hosted WordPress blog
- I feel like I failed at blogging. How do I get back on track?
- My life is getting in the way of blogging. Is there a way to stay on track even when my personal life is a mess?
Design
- What should I focus on with my blog design?
- What are all the various design elements called?
- Where can I find a background for my blog?
- How do I create a header for my blog?
- I would like to make my own logo. Do you have any resources for beginners?
- How do I create a menu bar on my blog (beginners)?
- How do I create a menu bar on my blog (intermediate)?
- How do I add an image to my sidebar?
- How do I create a Grab My Badge button for my sidebar?
- How do I upload a favicon?
- How can I create custom social media buttons for my site?
- If I don’t have Photoshop, how do I create design elements for my site?
- If I want to hire someone, what questions should I ask?
- How do I add social media follow buttons to my signature at the end of a post?
- What key points should I remember about the mobile version of my site?
- How can I customize my blockquote style?
Email Marketing
- How do I get a custom email address that matches my blog and then how do I access it?
- How can I turn off my email blasts temporarily if I need to post a lot of posts at once?
- How can I set up a MailChimp account and use it for newsletters?
- How can I create one of those opt-in’s to entice email subscribers?
- How do I set up a weekly newsletter and daily newsletter and allow people to choose?
Moving a blog
- I can’t figure out how to get into the host panel for the URL I bought for my blogger blog!
- I imported my blog from blogger but now all my labels are categories! How do I fix that?
- How can I move my WordPress.com subscribers over to my new blog?
- I moved my blog from Blogger to WordPress but the 301 isn’t working. There’s this weird ?m=1 in my permalink and I don’t know how to fix it!
- I need to make a 404 page after I move. How do I do that?
Plugins
- What plugins do I need to get started with WordPress?
- How do I install a plugin?
- What’s the difference between a plugin and a widget?
- Can I embed a Google calendar onto my blog?
- What is Jetpack?
SEO
- I know nothing about SEO. Can you give me a summary in plain English?
- How do I verify my site with Google webmaster tools?
- How do I set up a sitemap and submit it to Google?
- How do I make a link a no-follow link in a sponsored post?
- How do I use the SEO by Yoast plugin?
- How do I get Google to show sitelinks under my main URL?
- How do I get my post to show up on the first page of search results for a particular topic?
- What do I do if I have to take down a post, but don’t want to lose its SEO juice?
- How do I create great titles for my blog posts?
Social Media
- My social media skills are lacking. How do I learn to be better?
- How do I get started on Twitter?
- How do I get started on Google plus?
- How do I get my Twitter share button to pull my Twitter handle automatically?
- How do I use Twitter lists?
- How can I get a Twitter timeline on my sidebar?
- What is a hashtag?
- How does a blogger use Pinterest effectively?
- How do I claim my blog on Bloglovin?
- How do I get started with Hootsuite?
- How do I find relevant hashtags on Instagram?
- How do I automate some social media tasks to be more efficient?
- How do I keep my blog’s Facebook page working well and getting readers?
- Do you have a to-do list for bloggers and social media? I’m overwhelmed.
Troubleshooting
- I tried to install Cloudflare but now my site doesn’t work. Can you help?
- What are some beginner mistakes I should avoid with WordPress?
- My site was infected with Malware and now I need to rebuild it. Help me!
WordPress
- How do I get started with a blog?
- How do I install WordPress on my server?
- What’s the difference between a page and a post?
- How do I create a link in my posts?
- How do I insert an image into a post?
- How do I create a gallery in my post?
- Can I make the gallery linkable?
- What’s a featured image?
- I don’t understand all these blogging terms. Do you have a glossary?
- What commenting system should I use for my blog?
- Can I turn off comments or change the author for one particular post?
- How do I make a post private?
- How do I change how many posts show up on the homepage of my blog?
- How do I deal with awkward spacing in the WordPress edit screen?
- How can I make my blog have a static landing page rather than my latest posts showing up?
- How can I write a summary for my blog (for social media, Google, and/or my front page excerpts)?
- How do I write the most basic html for my blog?
- Where can I find the visitors vs. pageviews using Jetpack site stats?
- How do I change the little picture that shows up when I comment on someone else’s blog?
- How do I backup my blog?
- How can I add social media follow buttons to my signature area?
- What’s the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org?
- Do I need a WordPress.com account if I’m going to be self-hosted?
- What’s the difference between a category and a tag?
- I want to put something in my sidebar, but I don’t know code. How do I do it?
- Can I make widgets on my sidebar hide just on certain pages?