Find Your Blogging Specialty – Beware of Jack of All Trades Syndrome!

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Successful bloggers find, focus on and cultivate their blogging specialty.

Everybody else tries mastering a wide range of blogging skills. Being a jack of all trades guarantees you master none. Meanwhile, bloggers who find and master one core skill through diligent practice become successful because you make a huge impact by doing one thing incredibly well.

My blogging specialty is writing. I love writing and write fairly well too. Knowing this, I write 4-5 blog posts daily between guest posts and posts on Blogging From Paradise. I give most attention and energy to writing because writing is my talent especial.

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Error Establishing Database Connection WordPress (FIXED definitely)

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This WordPress error, establishing a database connection is normal so please do not panic. I want to guide you step by step to fixing it.

I’m going to propose a solution irrespective of your Web Hosting provider. I have seen many guides how to fix this database connection error. But most of these are specific to different hosting solutions.

We will look at salvaging this in 3 different ways:

  1. Checking to make sure we are properly connecting to the database
  2. Using the WordPress Database repair tool
  3. Contacting your host

Again don’t panic. These are very friendly tools and methods and I will make sure even my grand ma can follow these instructions and fix the problem.

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January 2020 Commenting Report: 150 readers made 201 comments!

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January 2020 is over. That means we are beginning to feel the new year.

It’s really been a busy month for me. There has also been an increase in my natural traffic too. I will soon be publishing a report on the exact things I did to get those results.

150 readers took their time to drop 201 comments which is great. Many of these comment authors are new timers and I do highly appreciate the engagement.

One thing that happened was Neil Patel’s post mentioning CommentLuv plugin. As a result of the post, I had a little more engagement on this blog and on this post. You know I have Commentluv premium enabled, giving you dofollow links from the comment section of this blog.

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Pogo Sticking is killing your SEO! Here’s how to fix it!

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When it comes to SEO, there are only two things;

  1. Get to Search result page #1 and position #1
  2. Be there for as long as possible.

If you are doing any SEO and these two are not your top priorities, then you have to sit down, grab a cup of coffee and think!

NB: Take a look at this post on SEO for newbies

Now, if you are on Google page #1, position #1 for your hunted keyword, don’t celebrate yet. You still have work my dear friend. Pogo-Sticking may be your next enemy to deal with.

The battle for position #1 on page #1 is fierce – keyword research, competition analysis, creating great content, backlinks, etc.

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How to make your website accessible to people with disabilities [AccessiBe Review]

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Is your website accessible to people with disabilities?

Has it ever occurred to you this was going to be a serious concern at some point?

As the Internet expands and penetrates all areas of live, with people increasingly depending on it for survival, there is growing need to make websites accessible to all people, regardless of disability type or severity of impairment – Web accessibility

But isn’t this (web accessibility) going to be a big pain in the back of website owners? Doesn’t this require spending huge sums of money? Is there any risk if I don’t give this any attention?

Ok let’s look at why you must have this done and how it’s dead simple to implement on your website in a matter of minutes using a tool called AccessiBe

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How to Get Rid of 404s on Your Site with 301 Redirection

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Let’s start by setting the scene right: You are in a bit of a time-pinch to find the information you desperately need at the moment.

You could be in a foreign city and you are lost. It’s raining heavily, and you’ve lost an umbrella. You Google your hostel, and it pops right on top of the Search Engine Results. You click on it, and then…

…you end up on a 404 error page.

Can you feel the frustration of this imaginary situation? Even though the situation around it isn’t so dire, whenever someone lands on a 404 page, the feeling is the same.

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