Input and ideas on my recently published forever theme

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  themindfulcenterknoxville · Member · May 20, 2013 at 2:26 pm

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  Hello WP Community,

  I just published my site a few weeks ago, and wanted to ask a couple of questions, as I am a little stuck on how to move forward on customizing my site to function how I would like…

  A few facts:
  1. I purchased the “Custom Design Package” and the Domain name to my company.

  2. my site is: http://www.themindfulcenterknoxville.com

  Wondering if you can help me with:

  1) As you will see, my pages and posts are the same. As far as functionality, does this make sense? I (think) know the difference between “pages” and “posts”, but any advice on whether this is a good move would be welcomed.

  2) How do I add plugins to my site?

  3) How do I make sure my site is optimized for SEO? Where do I check?

  Any help, advice, wisdom would be greatly appreciated!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · May 20, 2013 at 2:44 pm

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  Pages and Posts are different. Pages sit outside the blog structure and are for content that rarely changes. http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  Please read WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

  There is no FTP access to our free hosted WordPress.com blogs and we bloggers cannot install plugins or upload third party themes.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/#uploading-custom-themes

  FTP access, plugins and third party themes are available only for VIP bloggers http://vip.wordpress.com/our-services/ or for those with WordPress.ORG installs. WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate. As I said above there is no upgrade aside from being VIP hosted http://vip.wordpress.com/our-services/ that you can purchase to install plugins. They cannot be installed by bloggers on any free hosted WordPress.com blog. if you require plugins you hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/ and set up your own WordPress.org install. http://wordpress.org/ Then you move your content from the free hosted WordPress.com blog into the WordPress.org install. http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/

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  timethief · Member · May 20, 2013 at 2:47 pm

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  WordPress.com SEO is very good and there is no need for any SEO the plugin. If you had two identical sites, one hosted here and one self-hosted using that same plugin, the site hosted here would have better SEO than the self-hosted site. WordPress.com has huge SEO and you get the benefit of that by having your site as a “subdomain” here.
  Please read this > http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/

  These 5 videos introduce how Google discovers, crawls, indexes your site’s pages, and how Google displays them in search results. It also touches lightly upon challenges webmasters and search engines face, such as duplicate content http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/22/5google-webmasters-video-tutorials/

  If you are using a WordPress.com theme good SEO is a given. However, going beyond the theme what the blogger has done within that structure is worth evaluating. Whether you write informative, persuasive or controversial content learning how search engines work, and how to apply basic SEO to you content will benefit your blog as it will increase traffic from targeted readers. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/10/21/two-seo-videos-for-bloggers/

  See also http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/10/08/6-ways-to-make-google-your-blogs-best-friend/