• The two different versions of WordPress.
• How to set up web hosting and domain registrar the correct way.
• Installing WordPress.
• A Dashboard overview.
• Cleaning out the stuff that is installed by default.
• Finding and installing WordPress themes to change the look and feel of your website instantly.
• What Plugins are and how they can add fabulous features to your site.
• How to update WordPress, themes, and plugins.
• Understand every single setting, including my recommended defaults.
• How to find and use the RSS feeds to help search engines find your content.
• Importance of user-profiles and assigning an image (Gravatar) to your email address.
• Creating great navigation systems on your site, with custom menus, internal linking, and related posts.
• Enabling and dealing with visitor comments.
• Using the media library for images, video, and more.
• The difference between pages and posts, and when to use each one.
• Effective use of categories and tags. Misusing these can get your site penalized or even banned from search engines.
• How to create content using both the Classic editor and the new Gutenberg editor.
• Publish or schedule posts for a future date.
• Post revisions.
• Two different types of homepage. A blog-style page v a more traditional "static" homepage.
• Using widgets.
• Types of sites you can build with WordPress (blog, business, and a typical "hybrid" site), with videos on setting these up.

• Automatically take backups and get them sent to the cloud.
• Automatically create important legal pages on your site, like terms and privacy policy.
• Creating a contact page so visitors can contact you.
• Add a related posts section to the end of every post to keep visitors on site longer.
• Setup good SEO practices.
• Setup social sharing buttons on your site, so visitors can easily share your pages with friends.

Wordpress for Beginners - Wordpress v4.x

A Visual Step-by-Step Guide to Creating your Own Wordpress Site in Record Time, Starting from Zero!

• Check if there is a hungry market for your book.
• Find the best keywords and know how to use them to help your book rank higher in Amazon.
• Estimate sales of other Kindle books.
• Format your book as you write it, without having to buy any tools or hire someone to do it for you. A single document can be used to create both your Kindle and paperback versions.
• Create a table of contents properly so that it works with the Kindle reader and is properly formatted for your paperback version.
• Create book covers, or where you can get them from if you are not a designer
• Submit your books so they have the best possible chance of ranking in Amazon's search engine.
• Create formatted book descriptions on Amazon.
• How to update your book.
• How to promote your book for free.
• How to set up your Author Central profile.
• How to make use of the look inside feature in your books.
• Why serialization of books works, and how to do it.
• Basic Text Formatting.
• Which Font?
• Links and formatting checks.
• Page Numbering in Word.
• Adding a new paperback.
• Price calculator and deciding on Trim size.
• Common formatting problems.
• Book Cover Templates.
• Submitting the paperback and choosing distribution channels.
• Tracking sales, plus lots of other stuff ...
• You can use Amazon's "Look Inside" feature to check out this book before you buy it. Just click the cover image above to read the first section of the book for free.

1. Setting up with a domain registrar and host, and installing WordPress.
2. Logging into your WordPress dashboard and finding your way around.
3. Exploring the demo content that WordPress installs, including the post, page and comment.
4. Planning your website before you start working in WordPress.
5. Working your way through the important settings, and getting the site set up for success.
6. Posts v Pages are one of the most confusing aspects of WordPress for many beginners, but we cover those in depth, and you'll learn when to use a post and when to use a page.
7. Using the old WYSIWYG editor AND the Gutenberg editor to add content, and how to use categories and tags to classify and group your content. This is important as it will make your site intuitive for visitors, and the search engines.
8. Adding navigation to help your visitors.
9. Creating custom menus and adding them to your site.
10. Using widgets to add new features to your web pages.
11. WordPress defaults to a blog style homepage, but I'll show you how to set up a more traditional static homepage where you control 100% of the content.
12. Using plugins to extend the functionality of WordPress. We'll look at a number of essential plugins that I use on most of my own websites.
13. Keeping Wordpress and plugins up to date.
14. Customizing the look and feel of the site with WordPress themes.
15. How you can make money with your website by adding affiliate programs and/or Google Adsense.
16. Three website models: Business, Blog, and Niche site, with instructions and videos showing how to implement them in WordPress.

Do you want to learn an SEO strategy that works? SEO where you can build authoritative links that will catapult you to the top of the SERPs without risk of a Google slap or penalty? Pure White-Hat SEO strategy where you can sleep at night AND build traffic-busting websites.

In 2017, how many SEOs can offer that type of search engine optimization? This book can!

Google is on the SEO warpath.  Anyone caught breaking the rules or trying to manipulate rankings through aggressive SEO techniques, will find their website dropping out of the top 10, top 100, or out of the search results altogether.  Common SEO techniques can now kill your rankings!

Google released a whole menagerie of animals (Panda, Penguin, Pigeon, etc), but also employs humans to rate your content.  You cannot fly under the radar any more.  Gone are the days of fast rankings with SEO loopholes.  Today, SEO can be dangerous if you follow the wrong advice. Most free online SEO advice is very wrong because it's either out of date, or written by someone that doesn't do it for a living.  I've been testing for over a decade and making a living with SEO.

SEO 2017 & Beyond is a book that will teach you the safe, white-hat search engine optimization strategies I personally use to get my web pages (and those of my clients) to rank high in Google.  This is battle-tested, white hat SEO that I've learned, developed and tested over the last decade.  On-site optimization techniques that I was teaching my newsletter readers back in 2008, is only now becoming mainstream in SEO.  I play by Google's rules, meaning I never have to wake up after a major update and wonder if my sites have been hit.  I am always looking forward and asking myself what Google wants, and how I can deliver.

With so many algorithm changes taking place at Google, you might be wondering how it is possible to stay up to date with all the changes.  The good news is that it is easy once you acquire the right mindset.  Understand what Google is trying to do, and give it to them.  This book teaches you that type of search engine optimization.  You will not find any strategies to beat the system.  You will not find any loopholes to beat Google.  You WILL find solid strategies, solutions & advice to create great content and build high authority links and domain authority.

You won't be learning any black hat SEO backlinking techniques.  These would only serve to get your site penalized.  I only want to teach you a "future-proofed" strategy.  You'll learn the truth about anchor text links and why everything changed when Penguin was released.  You'll also learn what makes a backlink valuable in Google's eye, and what makes a backlink spammy.  I'll tell you about the Holy Grail of backlinks, and how to get them for your site.  They take more work, but a few of these links are priceless when it comes to ranking.  You'll also learn why it is important to focus on building your site authority.  I'll go through some of the older backlinking techniques and mention any that still have value. Most don't. The good news is you don't need to use those techniques. I'll show you how the high domain authority sites build natural, high impact links.

This book is now in it's 6th major edition -  SEO 2017.  In it, you also get the comprehensive SEO Checklist (the same checklist that is available as a standalone book on Amazon).  Use it to find and fix SEO problems on your site, and reverse Google penalties.

Learn PowerPoint with this complete PowerPoint tutorial, including the theory, quizzes, exercises and videos.

PowerPoint is a powerful tool that was developed to help anyone create amazing presentations, no matter what their technical ability. But too many people use PowerPoint the wrong way. What is the wrong way? Well, I’d say it was any way that makes your audience wish they weren’t watching your presentation. Or worse, puts them to sleep.

I am sure you have you seen PowerPoint presentations like that. What made them boring? Too much text? Endless bullets? Maybe the presenter just read the slides?

But PowerPoint presentations don’t need to be boring, and that is why I decided to write this book.

I have two goals:

1. To teach you how to use PowerPoint, so you are comfortable and competent finding your way around the interface. When you need to create a presentation, I want you to feel confident in using PowerPoint, even excited.

2. To explore the basics of good presentation design. We’ll consider what makes a presentation boring and try our best to avoid those things. We’ll look at how you can keep your audience engaged and interested in what you are saying by strategically using the tools built into PowerPoint.

The ultimate goal of this course is to teach you to create engaging PowerPoint presentations that entertain and educate your audience, while keeping them awake and focused on you. I want to teach you to create PowerPoint presentations that you are proud of, and people talk about – in a good way.

This course uses PowerPoint from Office 365, so it is the most up-to-date version. 365 is almost identical to the 2019 version and I have included tips in the book for 2016 users.

What is covered:

• How to set up your PowerPoint presentations the correct way from the start.
• The principles of good design when it comes to PowerPoint presentations. You'll learn about the mistakes most presenters make and how to avoid them in your own work.
• The slide master, and how to use it effectively in your own workflow.
• Inserting objects, aligning, the selection pane, Z order, grouping, and much more.
• Adding an formatting text, including WordArt.
• Adding shapes and joining, merging, flipping and rotating them.
• The format shape options and Format Painter tool.
• Adding pictures and removing backgrounds inside PowerPoint.
• Vectors and icons.
• Smartart.
• Adding charts and configuring them to show only the information you want them to show, with a look at chart elements, and chart data.
• Adding and configuring tables.
• Adding audio and video.
• Choosing the best transitions for your slides.
• Using animations strategically to draw the eye of your audience to the part of the slide you are focusing on.
• Transition and animation timing.
• Motion path animations.
• Using the animation pane to fine tune the sequence of animations on your slide.
• Stacking animations so that a single object can have more than one animation on a slide.
• Setting up the slideshow to run full screen or in a window, or using the outstanding presenter view which gives you all of the tools you need to create that perfect presentation.
• Printing stuff, including handouts for your audience or notes for yourself.