The FirstSiteGuide Blog
Welcome to the FirstSiteGuide blog where you will find everything you need to know about blogging. It doesn’t matter if you’re an experienced blogger or a total beginner, we cover topics of all levels. This blog also includes extensive sections about WordPress.
Information is all around us, and more often than not, it is simply hard to keep track. It can be frustrating, as important news are happening every day and it is important to stay up-to-date. Such a significant amount of information is probably hard to filter out, to only follow what you want and what […]
With more than 3+ million active installations, Yoast SEO is one of the most popular plugins for WordPress. There are more than 150,000 new downloads each day, and it doesn’t surprise that this free plugin is one of the first choices for new bloggers. Even if you are just starting out with WordPress, the chances […]
It may be nobody’s fault that the word “copywriting” has started to lose its meaning. In linguistics, we recognize this phenomenon as “semantic satiation” – you repeat a word so many times that it eventually starts disintegrating into an incomprehensible string of letters. As copywriting is everywhere around, it’s nothing peculiar that we’ve lost every […]
Blogging and commenting go hand in hand – you pretty much can’t have one without another. Right after you start receiving first comments on your new WordPress blog, you will realize that managing discussions take time. Although there is nothing wrong with having the default comment system which comes pre-installed with WordPress, there are alternatives that […]
For years, Facebook has been one of the most popular social media sites on the planet. So, it does not surprise that most of the new bloggers already have a personal Facebook account. More often than not, bloggers will create a fan page on the social media as well where they have a chance of […]
So far, we have been mostly talking about images when it comes to WordPress media. We tried to stress out the importance of adding pictures to blog posts, and on several occasions, we talked about featured images and how to resize them. But since the birth of Youtube and faster Internet connections, videos have entered […]
A lot of people would love to start a blog but have trouble deciding what types of content they could post. Some would like to have mixed content but can’t decide what to choose. Every day we can see different content types, and they all have their respective audience. Surely, one can’t relate to every […]
Writing a few articles as a hobby on some of the free blogging platforms is one thing, but being a professional and running a full-time blog is entirely another thing. The first one comes at no cost, except, of course, your time. And it is a viable option if you want to keep the things […]
For complete newbies, the whole process of picking a blogging platform could be confusing with some many choices out there. Or you might not even understand what is a blogging platform. The first thing that might come to mind is to find some free option to setup your blog. We are here to disappoint you […]
Are you thinking about starting a blog? Do you need one for personal use or you want to create one to promote your business? Whatever is the case, that kind of step can be very beneficial, but you need to know how to do it right. Before you start the process of setting up a […]