Many recent reports have indicated a rise in fraudulent traffic on number of ads. Both publishers and advertisers are suffering due to fake impressions. According to AdExchanger, ad industry is losing as much as $6 billion every year and the numbers are rising as you are reading this. Other than publishers and advertisers, there is a very complex advertising ecosystem … [Read more...]
15 Best AdSense Optimized Themes for WordPress
AdSense is probably the most common way of making money online because of the way it integrates ads into your website that are both relevant and lucrative. Now, building a website with WordPress is great, because you get to tinker with various themes to get the precise look and functionality you always wanted. There are WordPress themes that have been precisely optimized for … [Read more...]
Guide to WordPress Optimization & Cleanup: An 8-Step Checklist with Plugins
What do you do when your computer slows down? Defragment the hard drive? Delete duplicate and old files? Clean up the registry? Remove obsolete startup items? Yes? Well, then why don’t you do the same for your content management system? If you think this analogy is strange, think again, WordPress, like any other content management system, is majorly engaged in the work of … [Read more...]
8 WordPress Blogs to Follow for the Best Tips, Tutorials, Guides, and More
WordPress is the most popular CMS for many reasons, but the most important one is that it's free and open source. This has fostered a huge developer community around the platform that continuously builds beautiful themes, premium plugins, and even contributes to the core code. As the user, you have the freedom to stick to the basics or really get hands-on with … [Read more...]
10 WordPress Security Tips to Defend Your Site From Hackers [Infographic]
WordPress is a popular choice among bloggers and web publishers alike. As a CMS, WordPress promises a lot of features and benefits to its users such as a simple to use interface, flexibility in terms of the content that it can handle, a wide array of publishing tools, a huge library of free and paid plugins, among other things. According to WordPress.org, WordPress is currently … [Read more...]
How to Speed Up Your WordPress Installation [Infographic]
A common knowledge about running WordPress as your CMS is that it's prone to slowing down over time. This puts users off because who has the time these days for unresponsive websites? Moreover, this might also lead to a poor search performance as page load speeds is strongly suspected to be one of the many ranking signals. However... there are things you can do. How to … [Read more...]
6 WordPress Ad Plugins to Set Up and Manage Your Ad Layout
Displaying ads is by far the easiest way to monetize your website. A staggering amount of blogs and websites are created with this singular purpose in mind – publishing good content, generating organic traffic, and getting paid for displaying ads on web pages. WordPress gives you many tools to accomplish all this in a seemingly easy way — publishing (it's the most popular CMS … [Read more...]
30 Free Modern and Minimalist WordPress Themes for Bloggers
Do you want a simple and clean theme for your WordPress website? A design that is uncluttered so that your readers don't get distracted? A theme that has a high-quality design, provides a beautiful reading experience and doesn't weigh down on the server? Well, you need a minimal theme. I've collected 30 awesome minimal themes for you in this post. All these themes are … [Read more...]
10 Smart Ways to Get More Conversions from Your WordPress Site or Blog
When businesses create their WordPress websites, they have a certain purpose in mind, be it to sell, inform, entertain, or generate leads. There are many ways to achieve those goals, some better and some worse. While they may know what needs to be done in order to get people to the website, but in many cases, that’s all they know. Once you have managed to get visitors to y … [Read more...]
30 WordPress Monetization Plugins to Help You Make More Money
Going in 2016, probably the best web monetization strategy is to simply have more than one strategy. With ad blockers eating into ad revenues across the board, bloggers and web publishers are feeling the heat. Thankfully, when it comes to alternate means of revenue generation... there's no dearth of options. You can choose to sell affiliate products, optimize your existing ad … [Read more...]