Jerod Morris, Author at Copyblogger Page

Written by Jerod Morris | November 19, 2012 | 119 Comments

15 WordPress User Errors That Make You Look Silly [Infographic]

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Through superior flexibility and excellent quality, WordPress shed the label of mere “blogging” software long ago.

It’s become an indispensible content publishing platform for millions of real businesses and talented writers and thinkers across the web.

Chances are, it’s even powering your website, which makes the infographic you’ll find below indispensible.

If you’re running your site on WordPress there’s a chance you’re running into certain errors that can make you look, well, just a little bit silly.

Written by Jerod Morris | October 16, 2012 | 57 Comments

How to Set Up Your SEO-Friendly WordPress Website in 15 Minutes

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For serious WordPress publishers with specific online business objectives, there is no more critical component to your website’s long-term value than its search engine rankings.

Brian Clark reiterated this just a few days ago when announced the launch of Scribe 4.0:

“… we consider targeted search engine traffic the most valuable site visitors you can get when it comes to meeting business objectives.”

Written by Jerod Morris | October 2, 2012 | 49 Comments

The WordPress Website Owner’s Emergency Checklist

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As a human partaking in civilized society, there are certain pieces of information that you simply have to know, and critical documents you need to have at-the-ready at a moment’s notice.

For example, I bet that right now you know what your social security number is and where your social security card is located.

I bet you also know where your birth certificate is. If you have a passport, I bet you know where that is, too. Driver’s license? Deed to your house? Debit card? You can likely rattle off their locations without much thought.

Written by Jerod Morris | September 18, 2012 | 138 Comments

10 Steps to a Secure WordPress Website

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Every day, some scary report about a major site being hacked or a sensitive database being compromised hits the web … and freaks everyone out.

Last week, in preparation for an interview about my work at Copyblogger’s managed WordPress hosting division, I chicken-scratched a top 10 list of tips for keeping your WordPress website(s) secure.

We’ve been discussing WordPress security a lot over at the Synthesis blog, here, here, and most especially here), but these days, you can’t be secure enough, right?