61) Use WordPress’ URL shortening service
Shortened URLs are used by a lot of bots and spammers to make people enter websites they don’t want to enter, so using shortened URLs sounds bad. But the new WordPress service takes care of spammers and allows you to get targeted traffic, while saving precious space.
62) Avoid bulky page management – install a plugin
Too confused and hassled by how WordPress allows you to manage your pages? You can install a plugin that will allow you to reorganize pages quickly and easily, using various categories – or either via a WYSIWYG editor. It will allow you to move old “timely” posts to the front page.
63) Add a drop down menu to your admin area
Managing your website is tough – especially when you have a lot of users and a lot of different blogs, websites, and social media websites’ accounts. WordPress’ user interface isn’t “bulk” friendly. A drop down menu will allow you to edit a lot of article quickly and without much hassle.
64) Add a user login to your website
If you’ll add a login interface to some pages in your website it will intrigue your users, and it will allow you to provide privileges to other users – usually ones that advertise your blog plenty of times. There’s nothing like a “Do Not Enter” sign to get people interested.
65) If you post a lot of videos on your blog, use a good theme
If most of what you do with your blog consists of posting videos and commenting on them, instead of embedding them every time, you can install an interface/theme that will make your blog look like a video website, or a video rental website, making it more attractive and easier to use.
66) Use a theme that is content-specific
Do you find yourself doing the same thing over and over again? Are youposting or commenting on the same type of content all the time? Do youwant to target the appeal of your blog? you can do that by using atheme that makes your blog look like it – either a video website, newswebsite, etc.
67) Do you want readers from a specific location? Use widgets &plugins
If you are interested in readers from a specific physical location – either a country or region, etc, you can use widgets and plugins that are tailor made for them. Things like a weather forecast widget for that specific physical location, new movies to see widget, event calender widget, etc.
68) Want to attract people to your articles? Use a magazine theme
By using the tested theme of a magazine you are providing people witha strong and attractive title, an excerpt or summary of the article, and abig, crisp and attractive image that is related to it. It gives readersenough data to decide if they want to read your posts or not.
69) Want to merge your blog and your website? Now you can!
Why get stuck with the hassle of taking care of two websites? You can just merge them and enjoy the best of both worlds. You can use a theme that showcases your bio and your companys’ bio at the top, with eye grabbing photos, but users will still be able to comment on articles and interact with each other.
70) Want to grab people’s attention? Use a news interface
A news interface or theme allows you to showcase the beginning of an article and a small photo next to it. It is ideal for showcasing a lot of short articles per page, and for grabbing a user’s attention. Deliver the users all the data that they need – it’s a fast world nowadays.
71) Someone is riding your wave? Use API to take care of it
Some people use trackbacks in order to comment on a blog post – itallows them to leave their content on their own blogs, and it allows themthe freedom to control it. But they sometimes do it in order to get freereferrals – use Akismet or other programs together with WordPress’ APIto fix that.
72) Make links understandable
Avoid numeric URLs ‚Äì as much as you can. They tell the reader nothing. A descriptive URL can become a hassle length-wise, but if you keep it concise, it shouldn’t be a problem. It will also allow search engines to give you a much more fitting placement in results.
73) Stay ahead of the crowd
Do you want to make your blog shine? Do you want to make your blog unique and attractive? Than you need to keep track of updates and new abilities, and use them to your best advantage. That way you will never get stale, and it will show users your blog is very active.
74) Exchange links with related blogs
Check to see which users comment a lot, and if they have a blog. Also keep track on who trackbacks a lot to your blog, and if they provide good attractive content with those trackbacks. Ask them if they want to exchange links – that way you’ll achieve targeted advertising.
75) Submit your blog to search engines
Don’t wait for search engines to find your website. It might take too much time. Submit them – as long as you have decent content and you’re not just trying to get traffic revenue by doing nothing, you will probably get included. There are a lot of search engines so they keep trying to be more extensive than the others.
76) Add basic website pages
It might seem weird on a blogging system, but you need to add the famous website-specific pages. You’re not the only content provider on the internet – far from it. So you need to entice people – make an FAQ page, an About page, a Contact page and a Help page.
77) Text? That’s so last century
Even with today’s technologies and customization abilities, and the ability to embed almost anything, you’re still blocked by one big hindrance – text. You need to make your website available as an audio as well – there are plenty of plugins that do that, or you can narrate your articles yourself.
78) Assist people with bad eyesight
You don’t want to alienate a certain portion of your readership or potential readership. There are a lot of people with eyesight problems – all over the world. You can help them by installing a plugin that reads to them what they wrote as they write it. E.g. FlameReader.
79) Keep your site up-to-date – even the comments
You want to attract people to your newer timely blog posts – you want tocenter the attention and the discussion to that place. One way of doingthat is by disabling the ability to comment on old posts. Sometimes apost achieved all it could achieve comment-wise, and it’s time to let go.
80) Don’t overdue it
You want targeted traffic – not all of the traffic. Targeted traffic will stay longer and will be more beneficial in the long run. If you post on various subjects, separate them into several blogs based on categories. Also never mix two languages unless you’re teaching them using your blog.
