MolecularcodeWeb Design and Development

Alex Ruauxhttp://molecularcodewebdesign.comalex@molecularcodewebdesign.com

Beginners WordPress.com Course | West Island Women’s Centre |Winter 2014

Wrapping Up

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

It’s all about convincing Google that your website is the most appropriate place for someone to visit for a particular set of search terms.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Write good content

Publish regularly

Promote yourself on social media

Use short, easy to read slugs

Use keywords in your text

Titles and alt text on images

Bilingual Sites

Unfortunately there is no easy way to do this with wordpress.com.

http://en.support.wordpress.com/set-up-a-multilingual-blog/

Bilingual SitesYou have 3 options:

- write both the French and English in a single

post/page

- have one website and write a separate French and English version of the

post/page

- create 2 websites, one for each language,

and link them

Gravatar

http://en.gravatar.com/

Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site?

Multiple UsersAdministrator – nothing is off limitsEditor – has access to all posts, pages, comments, categories, tags, and links.Author – can write, upload photos to, edit, and publish their own posts.Contributor – has no publishing or uploading capability, but can write and edit their own posts until they are publishedFollower (public sites) / Viewer (private sites only) - can read and comment on posts and pages

http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

Autoposting using PublicizeConnect your website to your social networks and automatically share new content with them.

http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/

Autoposting using PublicizeOnce you’ve approved a connection to any of the below services, you’ll see a Publicize section in the Publish box on your post writing screen each time you write a new post.

Settings > Sharing

Comments

http://en.support.wordpress.com/comments/

Decide if it’s appropriate for your site to have comments.You can enable or disable globally.You can change the setting on a page by page basis.Make sure you approve comments before displaying them on your website.Settings > Discussion

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