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Grow Your Traffic with Keyword Research

July 7, 2016 By Chris Smith Leave a Comment

Grow Your Traffic with Keyword Research

This post is an introduction for WordPress.com bloggers to the concept of keyword research, with some real-world examples, tools, and step-by-step guidance.

Filed Under: Keyword Research, SEO, WordPress.com Tagged With: google suggest, keyword research, Keywords, keywordtool.io, long-tail keywords

Bing Webmaster Tools: Three Steps To Search Engine Domination

January 28, 2016 By Chris Smith Leave a Comment

Bing Webmaster Tools: Three Steps To Search Engine Domination

Bing is an often-ignored and forgotten search engine, but for certain demographics, it’s a valuable source of traffic.

Filed Under: Bing, Bing Webmaster Tools

Arizona WordPress MeetUp Slides – December 17, 2015

December 17, 2015 By Chris Smith Leave a Comment

Intro To Calypso: Simplifying WordPress from Christopher Smith

 

Github for Calypso – https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso
WordPress.com Account (no site needed) – http://wp.com/start/account

Filed Under: Meetups, Presentations, WordPress

Help Me Learn Javascript In 2016

December 17, 2015 By Chris Smith 1 Comment

Javascript LogoTaking a page from a fellow Automattician’s goals for 2016, I am making a goal for myself that I’ve put off far too long: learning Javascript.

I’ve built many, many themes for WordPress, but was always able to get by with jQuery and learning just enough to do something simple. However, backtracking and learning Javascript from the beginning will open up many more opportunities for me. I want to be able to do things like:

  1. Contribute to projects like Calypso. With WordPress.com moving to Calypso, and the potential for self-hosted WordPress.org sites to use it, being able to understand it on a deeper level (along with the API) can help me be able to dig out bugs, submit fixes, and work towards enhancements.
  2. Build out home automation controls. My home automation system runs on a Mac Mini Python server. While it’s got a suitable app and prebuilt web frontend, there are a lot of things about it that are lacking that could be solved with even a simple HTML/CSS/Javascript site instead of the built-in stuff. By goal is to access the site via older iPads throughout the house for a “whole house” automation and monitoring solution.
  3. WordPress Plugins. I’ve got a couple of very niche plugins out on the main WordPress.org plugin directory. While they’re very basic, they work well for what I needed at the time, and it seems a few other folks needed them too! I would really like to work on enhancing one of them with some settings, since it enables Jetpack functionality for a theme framework that otherwise would require the user to modify their theme.

Additionally, with all of the frameworks heavy hitters are getting behind (like React), Javascript shows no signs of becoming irrelevant in the foreseeable future.

So, how can you help me? Send me resources. What site/book/course helped you learn Javascript quickest? After the basics, where did you go from there? More importantly, what parts did you struggle with, and what helped you get over the hump?

Filed Under: Javascript, Web Development, WordPress, Work

Three Google Search Console Tips for Better SEO

December 16, 2015 By Chris Smith Leave a Comment

Three Google Search Console Tips for Better SEO

This is a post I wrote geared towards WordPress.com users. However, the tips are great for any site, no matter the platform, and are the very first things I do after verifying a site on Google Search Console.

Filed Under: Google, Google Search Console, SEO, WordPress.com Tagged With: fetch as google, google search console, googlebot, international targeting, internationalization, sitemaps

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