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Features, How To, WordPress

Easy and Effective WordPress Features

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WordPress has many features and options. So many, that it is easy to get a little overwhelmed as a newbie to the blogging platform. There are a few simple features that can help you best take advantage of WordPress. We share them below.

Widgets

What is a widget? It’s WordPress’s name for any special feature you can add, adjust, or tweak within their platform. Examples of widgets might be a calendar, a drop down list of categories for your posts or just space for some HTML coding. The GDI Affiliate Blog takes advantage of widgets—everything you see on the right-hand side of the blog is a widget from past posts to our current Facebook feed. Some blog themes have widgets already built into them. To see what widgets you have, add more and edit them, log in to you blog and navigate then to Appearance>Widgets.

For a more in-depth explanation of adding a widget, see our video tutorial on it HERE.

Scheduling

WordPress allows you to create posts and set when you would like to publish them. If you’re going to be away from your blog or just like to stick to a schedule, you simply edit the date and time when you would like you new post to go live. Then click “Schedule” which will appear in place of “Publish” and your post will be waiting in the queue ready to go on your set date.

 Easy Embedding

Embedding YouTube videos into your WordPress posts is very easy, and requires no HTML knowledge. To add a YouTube video to a post, navigate to the video you wish to add on YouTube. Then click Share>Embed just below it. A code will appear in a box, copy that code. Now head back to the post you’re creating and click the HTML tab at the top of the edit window. Now paste your code where you would like it to appear in the text. Update your post to save it and preview. Your video will be embedded and ready to play.

What WordPress features are you favorite?

Advice, How To, Marketing, Opportunity

Five Ways to Enjoy Your Vacation and Maintain Your Business

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Whether you’re traveling for the holidays or just taking a mental break, here are five simple ways to maintain your business while you take a break.

  1. Set up an auto responder for emails when you’re out of town. This will reply to any incoming emails with a preset message. Keep your message short and let senders know you’ll be in touch soon.
  2. Create blog posts and schedule them to post while you’re way, keeping content fresh and the appearance you’re still working behind the scenes
  3. Let your downline know you’ll be away form email and phone for sometime and direct them to other resources to help them, like this blog or our Support Team.
  4. Include a signup link in your auto responder and any profile. You don’t need to post on social media that you’re traveling, but be sure a link to your WebSite is easy to see so people can join while you’re away.
  5. If you’re feeling ambitious, you can easily access .WS email on your smartphone to stay on top of your business form afar. .WS mobile email supports Apple iOS and Android.

Advice, How To, Marketing, Q&A, Social Media, Tools

Quora for Affiliate Marketing

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You may not have visited Quora just yet, but it’s very popular and gaining momentum. Quora, as its own website states, “A continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it.”

What it’s good for

Quora is good for answering questions you feel you are an expert on and of course getting answer to your own questions. Search a phrase like “affiliate marketing” and you will be given a list of results with that phrase, most of which will be helpful. You can also add your own answer to questions that come up in search results.

How it’s unique

Quora is unique in quite a few ways. First off, if gives you a great direct opportunity to be a thought leader and establish yourself as an expert in you field. Twitter and Facebook offer this, but it can require lots of searches to find people discussing the information you interested in. With Quora there is a direct way to do this. The site is also different from other social question and answer sites in that each question and following answers are held to strict guidelines and are peer reviewed often to be sure those guidelines are respected. For example, when addressing a poster you must address them by first and last name, to ensure there is no confusion if there are multiple posters with the same first name. Questions must also be formatted in a specific way, which Quora will show when you start to post questions.

Ways to use it

Use Quora to establish yourself as in expert in the fields you have the most knowledge, like affiliate marketing or website design. Ask and answers and follow questions to get updates. You can also follow people on the site to see when they ask or answer a question. Link your Quora and your Twitter to drive your followers to see your answers and discussions. Quora is great to establish as a thought leader as well as ask and learn other leaders.