Upon setting up your WordPress site, your mind is racing with the gamut of things you want to do with your site. What products will you be selling? What kind of design you want your site to have? What blog post topics do you want to publish on your blog? Who will write for your blog?

While all these things are equally important, questions that get lost in the shuffle are the following:

• How can I protect my site from malware and hackers?
• What’s the best way to get rid of comment spam?
• How should people reach out to me if they have problems with the site?
• What should I do for Google to index my site?
• How can I make my site load faster for the sake of my visitors?

From the untrained eye, you’d think these questions have nothing to do with making money on your blog. However, at closer inspection, all these questions affect the bottom line of your website. Without am efficient website, for instance, almost a quarter of your visitors will leave your site (especially if it loads longer than four seconds). Also, you won’t have visitors at all if people can’t find you on search engines.

Therefore, before thinking big about your WordPress site or blog you built, you need to download the most important WordPress plugins below first before anything else.

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As a blogger, you may have been continuously building your brand online because the impact of blogging as it is is not even debatable. Few months or years of blogging can do you so well but sometimes, there are far more things you want to achieve and you will eventually reach the stage when you are ready to take your business to the next level.

There are things you can do online, however, aside from focusing on all the best online outreach and promotional tactics. You can also build more relationships with people face-to-face using offline marketing tactics.

One way to do that is to organize an event that’s geared towards building your brand.

First, let’s see benefits of doing an offline event for your online blog.

• Showcase your products and services
• Build stronger relationships with your followers
• Get noticed by a larger audience
• Meet other bloggers

After that, we’ll take you to the steps on how to organize an event as a blogger. Here are five must-do things for your future event.

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After having years of blogging experience, the most frequently asked question is…

“How do you come up with marketing blog topic ideas?”

Getting writer’s block after writing about SEO, social media, email marketing, and others on your blog or client’s is inevitable. It’s just a matter of overcoming it. One of the best ways to push through writer’s block is to develop sustainable habits that allows you to generate a steady stream of marketing blog topic ideas.

In this post, you will learn the different ways on how you can generate marketing blog topic ideas for your blog or client’s so you can sustain blogging no matter how many you write in a day.

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The digital nomad lifestyle is a reaction to the 9-5 full-time office job.

Employees are required to work in an office while commuting to and from work, which zaps hours of their time. Not to mention, they need to clock in extra hours doing something that they have zero passion for.

Don’t get me wrong: there’s nothing wrong about working on a 9-5 job. However, some people feel stifled and restricted as an employee. Therefore, becoming a digital nomad is an ideal choice for people who wish to take control of their lives.

If you want to become a digital nomad, expect to be your own boss. You can work at your own pace and time. More importantly, you can get the job done regardless of where you are!

As a blogger, it is possible to live as a digital nomad since you can get everything done in your laptop. However, there are issues that you need to consider if you want to go all with your digital nomad lifestyle.

In this post, learn the factors that you need to take into account so you can take better control of your life as a digital nomad.

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