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Why Blogging Is Important To Your Personal Branding Efforts

May 30, 2013December 6, 2012 by Kumar Gauraw

Speaking of Personal Branding, first of all I encourage you to visit the post I wrote while launching my e-book Personal Branding GPS. If you haven’t taken a look at that article yet, go ahead and take a peek to see what Personal Branding is and why is it important to you no matter what your personal or professional goals may be.

To briefly recap, you might want to be recognized for your talents, you might want to create a reputation in the online world to reach out a wider range of audience or you might want to build a business online using the talents and abilities that you are proud of.

Why A Good Hosting Service Is Important To Your Website Performance

April 5, 2014November 20, 2012 by Kumar Gauraw

We previously discussed how CloudFlare and MaxCDN can, not only tremendously help improve your self-hosted WordPress website's (or blog's) performance, but also increase the security of your websites against the various threats.

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You may want to refer to those articles by clicking on these links below:

In these articles, I shared how the performance of my website improved significantly as I measured using tools like Pingdom and GTMetrix. I was extremely pleased with this result and not just that, it showed significant increase in organic traffic from search engines on my website as well.

How Cloudflare Supercharges Your Website Security And Performance

March 12, 2014October 17, 2012 by Kumar Gauraw

We all know the importance of fast loading website pages. In addition, website security is another concern for most website owners because a hack can be devastating especially to small business owners.

These were my two main concerns since I have several of my own websites plus client websites to support.

Whether you have a personal website, company site, blog, website security definitely is your biggest challenge and then, a fast loading website brings so many additional benefits.

CloudFlare offers both the benefits to you at once. Faster loading times, more security, happier visitors, better SEO and thus, more business!

Best Ways To Take Regular Backups Of Your WordPress Websites

September 2, 2013September 27, 2012 by Kumar Gauraw

I recently met a few awesome WordPress bloggers, web developers and other hosting experts in a recent a WordPress meetup event this month. It was an interesting event targeted at educating WordPress developers and website owners about various security threats and how to take care of those.

One thing that stuck me during the meeting was, the realization that so may people are not very deligent about taking backup of their websites. I was amazed to see the number of people who fell in that category not knowing how fatal mistake it may prove to be in case something goes wrong. Many people take backups here and there, but most aren't very systematic in this regard.

Free WordPress Hosting Installation And Setup For Your Website

April 5, 2014September 24, 2012 by Kumar Gauraw

Many people find that setting up a website is complex task. It can be a little intimidating especially if you don't have experience with web technologies. Another option is to hire an expert. But, sometimes, your budget may not allow you to hire somebody to get your WordPress hosting, installation to get your blog set up.

If you have known me for a while, you now understand the importance of having a website. I have spent years helping my clients build a strong and profitable brand identity. And having a website, is a must for anyone wanting to do anything about their branding.

Many others those who want start a good professional, world-class website, continue to ask (or wonder) how to setup a self-hosted website. The question is obvious and indicates that many people get intimidated with this task.

Scribe SEO – WordPress Content Optimizer Plugin For Your Website

February 4, 2013August 16, 2012 by Kumar Gauraw

Scribe SEO is a copywriting tool by Copyblogger that I personally started using as a trial since Michael Hyatt recommended in his book, Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World. It comes as a plugin for the WordPress users though it's available for other blogging platforms as well. Since I installed Scribe's WordPress plugin, I have been exploring its features.

Meanwhile, I ran surveys on social media platforms, asked question to the SEO experts around in my network and other bloggers. I actually got mixed responses from the people who responded. The most interesting thing was, most people I asked responded, "I have heard about it but I have not yet tried the tool personally." Anyways, since I have been using the tool personally, here are the 3 highlights of Scribe in my experience: