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May 21

Resolving WordPress You Do Not Have Permission to Preview Drafts

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Ran into an interesting problem with WordPress the other week and thought I would share the various solutions to the problem where you do not have permission to preview draft posts in WordPress or end up with 404 errors on posts in WordPress that are published. One or more of these tips may resolve your issue, but remember to first and foremost disable all plugins as a first step when troubleshooting any WordPress issue. If that resolves your problem, then start activating 1 plugin at a time until you find the culprit plugin. This resolves about 90% of all WordPress issues that crop up, so make sure you do the disable all WordPress plugin method of troubleshooting first.

If you try to preview a published or scheduled article and you get a post page that says you do not have permission to preview this post then the following should be attempted.

Check WordPress Address and Site Address

The culprit which may be a bug in WordPress that leads to you do not have permission to preview drafts in my case ended up being a mismatch between the WordPress Address and the Site Address.

You can find this in the WordPress –> Settings –> General

In my case, one of the URL’s was set to http://domain.com with the other set to http://www.domain.com and because one URL had the www and the other did not, it caused the you do not have permission to preview this post WordPress error.

Update WordPress Permalinks

This is especially an issue if you do a bulk import of WordPress blog posts or create a new WordPress blog, sometimes the permalinks can get confused and this will lead to 404 errors when viewing published WordPress blog posts or other URL oddities. All you have to do is Open your WordPress –> Settings –> Permalinks menu and then click on one of the permalink settings, click update and then select the permalink setting you had previously and click update again.

Typically you could use Post Name instead of Custom Structure for the post name, as this is now built into the later versions of WordPress and having custom structure with %postname% is a legacy configuration from older versions of WordPress.

Flush Browser Cache

Another thing you may need to do as an additional step or the only step is to flush your browser cache or try your same attempt with an Incognito or browser with a Private mode. This is different for each browser, but if you still have the issue with being unable to preview WordPress posts or getting permission issue with WordPress preview after the above attempts try flushing browser cache.

Update WordPress

Finally, the last step if none of the above has solved your issues you can replace your WordPress install, you can do this with the automated WordPress reinstall which can be found in your WordPress –> Dashboard –> Updates

Then go ahead and click on Re-install Now

again, remember to make sure you have any caching plugins disabled and try to hit your preview button again on a blog post and you shouldn’t see the you are not authorized to preview this post error any longer on your WordPress blog.

If one of the above tips to solve your preview not authorized WordPress issue, let me know and I will see if I can find something else that helps but in doing my research as well as resolving my own issues one of these should resolve the issue, especially if you disable all WordPress plugins and try again after completing the above options to try.

Good luck WordPress users.

Tags: wordpress help, wordpress not authorized, WordPress Tips

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May 20

Shared Web Hosting – Is It the Best Web Hosting for Beginner Bloggers or Webmasters

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Web Development

by Guest Blogger

Choosing the right web hosting provider is one of the most common problems faced by beginner bloggers or webmasters. There are many free hosting companies, which will allow you to create sites on their platforms and host them. However, it is best to avoid them if you are taking blogging seriously because there are limitations and technical hassles with the free hosts. Therefore, I would recommend a beginner blogger who wants to earn through blogging to get some cheap, reliable shared hosting.

The kind of hosting you should choose depends on the kind of platform your site is running on. This article mainly deals with the kind of hosting to choose for those on the WordPress platform.

As a beginner, you may get confused with the many packages Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting, VPS and Dedicated Hosting. In addition, you do not have much money to spend monthly (or yearly) on hosting because you have not earned a single penny yet from your online business. We have already talked about the things to consider before buying new hosting. In this article, I will talk specifically about the type of web hosting you should consider as a beginner.

The Type of Hosting to Buy as a Beginner

Technically speaking, there are many types of hosting Shared Hosting, Reseller, VPS, Dedicated server, Could Hosting. Each of them is further divided into Linux hosting and Windows hosting. Now for example, if you have a WordPress site, it is best to go for Linux hosting because if you do not have technical knowledge, you can still install your WordPress site by following the manuals. However, for Windows hosting, you need a little technical knowledge, and it is costlier too.

When I started out about 6 years back, there were not as many video tutorials or manuals available. I switched between various hosts, and learned the hard way. I tried and tested on various servers until I found the one that satisfied my requirements completely. However, now that is not the case, as the internet is flooded with video and instructional tutorials.

Through the experience gathered all these years, I can say that shared web hosting is the best for beginners. Plenty of resource of hosting is available to meet your basic requirements in the shared servers. Once you feel the need for an upgrade due to growth in business, you will be free to do so.

If your site is heavy and it is consuming much resource, I would recommend you to optimize the site. What you need to do is lessen the use of plugins, optimize the database, and clean up the orphan tables.

In a nutshell, those who are starting out with blogging on WordPress can choose shared hosting because:

Shared Hosting is cheaper
The traffic is less, so you would not need high configuration servers
They lack experience in handling cPanel and lack technical knowledge

As a beginner, you need to have the knowledge of handling FTP, and making changes to your website through cPanel. That is all you need and you will be in a good position to start your site.

According to you, what would be the best kind of web hosting or webhotel as the Danes call it, for beginner bloggers or webmasters on a WordPress platform?

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May 15

Internet Marketing- SEO Or PPC? How To Decide Which To Use Or Both

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SEO

by dragonblogger

When it comes to marketing your business if you know little about internet marketing in can be difficult to know which route to go down. There are two main options when it comes to internet marketing; SEO and PPC. SEO stands for search engine optimization. SEO is used to get your website ranked on search engines for targeted search terms increasing your traffic. PPC stands for pay per click. PPC is paid advertising which is displayed above organic results on search engines and is used to increase conversions. Choosing which method is best for your business can be tricky if you don’t know the details, so here is a look at both and when they should be used-

SEO

When it comes to looking for a product or a service online almost everyone turns to search engines to do this. This is why as a business it is important you are ranked well on search engines for your targeted key words. Being on page one of Google and page two can be the difference between getting 1000 visits a month and 10 visits a month.

SEO does take time and it’s safe to say that when it comes to SEO slow and steady wins the race. SEO cannot be used as a quick fix and takes time, commitment and perseverance. Choosing search engine optimization means your traffic will slowly increase month after month and you will see a slow and constant growth in traffic to your site.

Choose to use SEO if your business is doing well but you wish to grow it slowly over time leaving you able to adjust and expand as your rankings improve.

PPC

PPC unlike SEO is paid advertising on Google. Like the name suggests you pay a set price every time someone clicks on your advert taking them through to your site. PPC is displayed above the organic results at the top of Google and are the first results the user sees. You can set a daily budget for clicks when using PPC and once this budget has been spent your ads will no longer appear to avoid any over spending.

Use PPC if you want to see quick results, unlike SEO PPC results appear right at the top of Google straight away, if you are willing to spend the money Google are happy to put you straight to the front resulting in more clicks. PPC is a great way to get a start up business off to a kick start or help pick up a business that is struggling.

When To Use Both

There are no rules against using both SEO and PPC. You may choose to do this if your business needs an extra kick when you don’t have time to wait for the results of SEO to take effect. Using PPC and SEO means you can bring in the traffic you need whilst increasing your organic rankings until they are ranking well enough to bring in enough traffic without PPC.

About the Author

Eilidh MacRae would recommend using SEO or PPC to help grow your business and bring in targeted traffic. She works for Marketing By Web who are a Bristol SEO Agency.

Tags: google adwords, internet marketing, online marketing, ppc, ppc advertising, search engine optimisation, Search engine optimization, seo, seo marketing

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May 13

Knowledge Of SEO Tools Are Vital For Your Website

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SEO

by dragonblogger

SEO used to be easy and simple. All it took was a few minutes of some tedious work and that was that, your SEO tasks were complete.

However, all has changed and SEO now continues to increase the stress level of many website owners. SEO tools are very helpful to a website’s needs. SEO is something that needs constant attention. As technology is always changing and growing, new SEO techniques and tactics will appear, thus having the knowledge and being updated and upgraded is vital.

How SEO Affects Your Mood

As algorithms are being updated, it is essential for your business to possess some of the best tools available to you. People are either happy or sad when the search engines update their algorithms. Their mood depends on how their website reacts to the update. Some see a big boost and practically overnight success from all their hard work, whereas others see their hard work just fail.

However, search engines such as Google are updating their algorithms more often as time goes by. Instead of the regular 4 month period that goes by, you may start to experience a monthly update. The right SEO tools are vital to have and some can even assist you in the overall appearance of the website.

Not Every Tool Is a Good Tool

Tools you and your business should possess shouldn’t necessarily be to make magic work on your website, nor allow you to see overnight success because with SEO that is impossible.

There are a dozen of very good SEO tools you can get your hands on that will be of great assistance to your SEO presence, however, you will still be required to manage and work on SEO tactics, but the tools may lighten your load.

Other Things to Keep In Mind For Your SEO

Search engines and Google are now looking at your websites load speed and page speed to assist in determining the overall SEO quality and ranking of your site. Make sure your website, along with the pages loads quickly. Comments are also a big factor.

If the search engines see a lot of spam visitors coming through your site, you may want to reconsider your recent SEO strategies, as the spam visitors and comments can tremendously affect your website’s presence.

Another Consideration

As you can see, SEO tools are vital to maintaining a good on site SEO presence. If you operate your website on high quality and SEO rich articles, it will ultimately result in a good SEO website.

There are a handful of very good plugins to choose from. It is best to install a few and see which seo ranking tool will best fit your business needs and which you are most comfortable using. For example when using a platform such as WordPress, consider downloading a plugin. That will assist you in developing a high quality presence.

Robert is a new media consultant. He works with various business sectors, mainly focusing on their internet marketing needs. Robert hopes to one day develop his own seo ranking tool. However, until then, he enjoys reading and expanding more in the marketing industry.

Tags: Blogging, business, Internet, link building, seo, social media, technology, websites

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May 11

Your Homepage Must Be Designed In A Certain Way To Maximize Its Effectiveness

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Blogging Tips

by dragonblogger

Take a look at your analytics and you will see that your homepage is the place where the majority of people end up when they first arrive at your site. This is because most people who link to your website will send everyone there. You need to make sure that your homepage is ready to turn each visitor into a loyal reader otherwise most of them will leave and never return. If you don’t design it the right way you will really struggle to make money.

We’re going to look at some things you must make sure you’re doing. It’s possible that you’re making a lot of mistakes at the moment and when you look around the web after reading this article you will know exactly what I mean. Try to remember that when you’re working with high traffic webpages you need to spend a lot of hours trying to make them as perfect as possible. Here are a few of the obvious things you need to do right now.

Speak to your ideal customer

If you want to attract a certain type of customer you have to be careful about the way you speak to them. A lot of websites try to be too fancy and it’s only going to help ensure the majority of people who land on their website click away and never come back. Make sure you keep everything as simple as possible unless your website is targeting rocket scientists.

Tell them they are in the right place

When you land on a website you want to know you are in the right place. If someone mentioned any problems you had it would help convince you. If someone wants to lose weight you can ask them if they’re sick and tired of tiring themselves out when they play with their children. You can guarantee anyone who struggles with this will know they are in the right place.

It’s all about the benefits

After you have identified problems you now need to talk about the benefits of your site. Will you help them become fitter than they have ever been in their life? Will you help them lose a lot of weight so they can run around with their children as much as they want? You need to speak about benefits whenever you tell someone what you can do for them because they will become more emotionally invested in your site.

Start building trust

You need people to trust you before they will be happy to buy your products. The easiest thing you can do is add testimonials on the page. Another thing you can do is make sure your design looks professional enough. You can design the homepage in a certain way, but if it doesn’t look nice it won’t help you gain anyone’s trust. If you don’t want to take any chances you should just make sure the design is as clean as possible.

Send them into a sales funnel

Once someone is lucky enough to land in your sales funnel they will be given some great information and somewhere down the line you can ask them to buy your products. This sounds great, but first you need to make sure they land in your sales funnel. A very attractive and tempting opt-in form should convince them to give you their email address.

This is just one page

The homepage is obviously one of the most important pages on your entire site, but you still need to make sure you carefully design each individual page. Do you have any idea about how you can improve any of your other pages?

About the Author

This post was contributed by Neena Jones; she works for a well recognized Mississauga web design company as a website developer. She likes to read science fiction books during her free time.

Tags: homepage, web design, website

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May 09

How to Write a Post that Goes Viral

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Blogging Tips, Social Media

by Guest Blogger

Creating viral content is starting to become the standard for a lot of businesses/bloggers out there looking to get major visibility and sales. Here are a few ways to help you develop this type of traffic:

Writing great content

Great content writing such as using an SEO service like 180Fusion is one way to help you in developing viral content. You’ll find that great posts that explain a topic in detail will get a lot of traction to help your posts do well on the search engine. Learning how to use keyword density correctly is solid for creating a focal point within your text so web spiders can crawl your site.

Evoking emotion and alertness with your title

It’s easy to write a long and dreary post but you have to know how to manipulate the sense? A post such as “Fight back Google Panda with these SEO tips” will work better than “SEO tips to help you after Google Panda”. One, “fight back” is taking action and it evokes emotion. It creates a type of alertness that people look for online and will entice them to read your post. A killer title is one of the first steps to drawing more attention to your blog. This will help you start to dominate over other posts just because the title is outstanding. It also helps if your title addresses a certain current issue whether you are for or against that specific premise.

Create powerful images and videos that can easily be shared

Infographics are a great way to help attract people to your blog post. You can create your own infographics within your written post that can easily embed on other pages. You can even write a code that sends a backlink to your blog for extra link juice. These do well not only on the search engine but great for social sites such as Tumblr, Pinterest, and Instagram. Videos are also another great thing to have within your posts. Whether it’s someone else video that correlates to your topic or you have your own video that you put in a specific, it keeps your audience’s attention! Also, they will be more willing to share if it’s a video that’s funny, unique, or informative. There are numerous ways to help spread your content throughout the search engine. Find a way that works best for you and your target audience.

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May 07

When it Comes to Analytics, are You Doing Enough?

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Web Development

by dragonblogger

When you have a website or an online presence that you want to grow or maintain, it is important to stay in tune with your audience of followers and what they are interested in during their visits. Utilizing analytics and various statistic tools and programs online can help to drastically increase page views while giving you additional benefits that can extend the livelihood and popularity of any type of website or blog. Knowing whether or not you are doing enough when it comes to analytics can help you to make the changes you need to ensure your site is getting as much exposure as possible.

What is Analytics?

Analytics involves the study of statistical and numerical data provided based on tracking or a recording system. Using analytics software and online tools for websites gives you the ability to record visits, page views and even the most and least popular articles you have published to your site. Using analytics for any individual blog or professional website is highly recommended to gain insight into a site’s target demographic and the overall popularity of it at any time.

The Benefits of Using Analytics Tools

Using analytics tools is beneficial for any type of website as it helps to boost your knowledge of the popularity of your website for potential partnerships and future ad sales. You can also review the pages and the articles that are the most popular and where visitors are finding said pages themselves. Researching referral links allows you to view who is linking to your website and what keywords are begin searched to find the content you have published online.

Change Unpopular Titles

Finding the least popular types of content on your site with an analytics tool allows you the option of changing its title manually in hopes of receiving more page views and changing where the link appears within search engines. Researching trending keywords and phrases online can help you to title content appropriately based on the purpose of your site or blog.

Check Consistently

Checking your analytics tools each day and multiple times throughout the day allows you to easily see when the most visitors view your site in addition to keeping track of the content that generates the most buzz and interest. It is also important to export the data you save within any analytics tool you are using regularly to compare your visitors, page views and the overall success of your site over time.

Interested in an SEO company that can help you with analytics? Take a look at the reviews of 180Fusionhere.

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May 05

Finding Free Logos and Vectors

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Web Development

by dragonblogger

Whether you are working with websites or WordPress blogs sometimes you just need to find some great vectors or logos to help jazz up the appearance of your posts, sidebar or header on your site. There is a very impressive free vector search engine that helps you quickly and easily find the vectors or logos you need without having to worry about blowing your budget.

Vector.me has hundreds of thousands of free vector images that you can browse and choose from, all you need to do is search for what you are looking for in the top search bar. In my example I was looking for some creative Twitter logos to help spice up a new social media article.

A very fast search result gives you plenty of choices to help narrow down what you are looking for, this starts with selecting the specific file type, choosing the color of the logo or vector you want and also whether you just want to find free vector images or find free logo images.

You almost always get a wide variety of formats when downloading these vectors too, many come with PNG, PSD files of the images in various sizes, and .ai and .svg files are also present. Others are just .ai files so you have to check the file types listed for the image.

Even if you don’t have Adobe Illustrator to open those .AI files you can use the latest version of Adobe PDF Reader which can open the AI files for you, though you cannot edit them you can save them as a jpg and then open them in your favorite image editing program you already own, or a free program like Paint.NET or GIMP.

You can find great backgrounds for documents, designs for static websites or as I mentioned vectors to help spice up posts, sidebars or mailing list newsletters. There is a wide variety of topics to choose from and range from Agriculture to Wine and everything in between.

If you are looking for free vectors or free logos then I recommend you visit Vector.me and take a look to see if you can find something that fits what your looking for, it is very easy to search for, filter and find a free vector to use. Also if you create vectors you may want to upload some of your library and contribute to the free Vector library offering your designs to other designers. You can choose to list your vector as Freeware or Creative Commons where others should provide link attribution if they use your vector.

Tags: free vectors, online vectors, vector search engine

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May 04

Change Font Styles in WordPress Posts with TinyMCE Advanced

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WordPress

by dragonblogger

Say you want to have multiple different font choices in the same WordPress article but you don’t want to go through the hassle of setting up custom style options in the style.css or manually deal with HTML code to change font family style in your WordPress post manually.

The TinyMCE Advanced plugin from the WordPress Archives is free and gives you many options, including the option to set WordPress font for posts and change it between paragraphs or at any point in a WordPress post. This means you can choose Arial font for part of your WordPress article and Times New Roman for another part or select any of several different fonts for your WordPress blog articles.

To get started you have to install TinyMCE Advanced

Installing TinyMCE Advanced in WordPress

Go to your WordPress Dashboard

Click on Plugins

Click on Add New

Type "TinyMCE Advanced"

Click Install next to the TinyMCE Advanced plugin

Click Activate Plugin

There, the TinyMCE Advanced plugin is installed, now it is time to configure it.

Configuring TinyMCE Advanced for WordPress

Click on Settings –> TinyMCE Advanced in the WordPress Dashboard

Now you will see 4 toolbars (the original 2 in the post editor and 2 blank ones) drag and drop the functions that you want to add to any combination of the toolbars above.

For the example image, if you want to add font family so you can change fonts in WordPress posts then drag the Font Family configuration to the 3rd toolbar or add it to the 1st or 2nd toolbar.

I also added styles, replace function which allows for find/replace in article, as well as the table configurations to easily add tables into articles. The horizontal ruler (HR) button was also another good easy feature to add. By default TinyMCE Advanced will also add the SuperScript and PostScript buttons too which are very helpful if you have to use those font styles.

Click Save Changes at the bottom of this screen.

Changing Font in WordPress Post Editor

Now you simply go into your WordPress post editor and click on the Visual tab, you may have to click on the "expand kitchen sink" button to see all of your new options.

Now you can select the text that you want to change the font type in WordPress

Then select the Font Family drop down and select the font that you want to use for that section.

You can set any number of font families, styles, sizes for your articles now.

TinyMCE Advanced is a great tool for easily adding the ability to change fonts in WordPress articles if you want to use varying fonts within the same article.

Tags: change font in wordpress, tinymce advanced, WordPress, WordPress Plugins

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May 03

Top tips for staying secure when using my tablet to connect to the internet

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by Guest Blogger

The Internet is growing bigger and better by the minute and is a massive necessity to those that use the likes of tablets, laptops and mobile phones.

The Internet offers a wealth of possibilities: it allows you to surf a vast amount of web pages, speak to friends half way across the globe, watch movies on the go, and much more besides.

If the Internet were to suddenly collapse, a number of businesses would probably go into ‘shut down’ mode, causing chaos to the daily running of certain services. However, this is very unlikely and more and more are choosing to use the Internet on a daily basis. If you ask yourself this question ‘when was the last time I didn’t use the Internet?’ you may be unable to give an answer. This is mainly because most individuals cannot go a minute without checking their phones, sending emails, making calls and surfing the web.

In fact, it is now possible to complete a huge number of tasks without leaving the house. Such tasks include completing the weekly shop, buying an outfit for an upcoming event, buying gadgets, reading news reports, and discovering ways in which to recycle or sell MacBook devices and other laptops.

Finding a secure connection

If you wish to complete such tasks online, finding a secure connection is imperative. If you have a Wi-Fi connection in your own home, make sure that it is a locked connection. Other users are able to access Wi-Fi from up to 1,000 feet away, which means an unlocked Internet network is a target for techno-thieves. Once inside this connection, computer hackers will be able to peruse your content at ease, ranging from music to pictures. Another way to stop this from happening is to put a lock on any shared servers.

If you choose to connect to public Wi-Fi, it is important that you issue the same lock on files, photos, music and personal documents. This will put a stop to strangers viewing personal items. Many cafes, restaurants, bars, airports and public shopping centers feature free Wi-Fi, which means accessing the Internet has never been easier. But it also makes it easier for computer hackers to get into such systems, which is why you should do everything in your power to protect your assets. Without protection you could fall victim to fraud and you may even end up sharing personal details without consent – which is why you should never enter your credit card details in a public place. If you must, ensure your bank offers a high level of fraud prevention.

About the Author

Liam Bennett boasts an advanced knowledge of all things technical and enjoys communicating this knowledge to others. His tips will often include information on how to sell macbook devices as well as other unwanted laptops. His passion for technology is ongoing and as such, he will often contribute to a number of technically orientated blogs.

Tags: Security, tablet security, wi-fi

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