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We use and recommend the following resources for managing your Website and Social Media Accounts.* If you have questions about how these resources could be used, please, just let us know.
WEBSITE RESOURCES
Website Domains, Hosting, and Email
- $5.99 .com Domain Names for 1 year at Go Daddy They are one of the largest domain registrars in the world. Generally friendly and easy to work with. They do a good job of helping novices use and setup their pages. Watch out for upsales-buy what you came for and don't get distracted by their deals.
- Paradux Media Group Email Services Paradux Media Group offers business class email hosting services. Our Email Hosting and Business Class Email Retention Services eliminate the need for businesses to manage, host and archive their emails in-house.
- Paradux Media Group Website Hosting With our hosting plan, your website receives regular updates for Wordpress versions and plugins to make sure that your site is not left vulnerable. Off-site Automated Backup Solutions are provided at our network operations center but housed in another networked location. Backups are run on a frequent basis and held on our backup server. These backups can be restored almost instantly if needed and in a catastrophic event are capable of a bare metal restoration. As an added bonus, for websites with fewer than 100k API calls/month, when hosting with Paradux Media Group, you receive automatic Akismet Spam Protection for your website.
- Wordpress Hosting Plans at Go Daddy Once you have your domain name, you can get your Self Hosted Wordpress site here. GoDaddy offers an easy installation. Please note: the links to GoDaddy products offer coupon-based sales. But they cannot be combined in one transaction. To take advantage of these deals, click on one, buy it, then click on the next and buy it, and so on.
- Google Apps Google Apps for Business offers powerful messaging and collaboration apps that meet business-critical needs. Gmail: Get custom email like hikingfan@your-group.com. Google Calendar: Organize your schedule and share events with friends. Google Sites: Create websites and group wikis. Google Docs: Share online documents, presentations, and spreadsheets.
Website & RSS Analytics
- Feedburner Replace your RSS feed on your blog with this to be able to see how many subscribers you have.
- Google Analytics Use this free site to monitor traffic to your website, where they came from, how they found you, and what they looked at
Search Engine Optimization
- Organic SEO from Paradux Media Group At Paradux Media Group we understand the importance of organic SEO. We also understand that every business is different and has different needs. Paradux Media Group offers affordable customized packages to fit your company’s organic SEO needs.
- Submit Your Site to Google This is the biggest one of the big three. Be sure to submit your website to Google!
- Submit Your Site to Bing Microsoft's answer to Google -- take the time to submit your site here as well.
- Submit Your Site to Yahoo! It's been around a long time and still going strong - this it the third don't miss search engine submittal.
- Get Listed Make sure your business is listed on these directories.
- SEOPressor SEOPressor is like an SEO expert standing beside you. It intelligently optimize your website to rank high on search engines and automatically attract FREE organic traffic automatically, guaranteed!
- Biznik Open a profile on this social network to enhance your search engine visibility. You do not need to put a lot of effort into maintaining this profile
- LinkedIn Open a profile on this social network to enhance your search engine visibility. Also open a "Company Page." Update this profile at least once a month
- Manta Open a profile on this social network to enhance your search engine visibility. You do not need to put a lot of effort into maintaining this profile
- Merchant Circle Open a profile on this social network to enhance your search engine visibility. You do not need to put a lot of effort into maintaining this profile
- Gravatar Get Your Photo/Avatar on your Wordpress Blog
- Google Analytics Use this free site to monitor traffic to your website, where they came from, how they found you, and what they looked at
- Google Keyword Tool This handy free tool allows you to explore the exact words and phrases people are typing into Google when searching for information. Be sure to look for “long-tail” keywords that clearly represent people who are interested in what you offer but don’t have a lot of competition.
- A Beginner's Guide to SEO New to SEO? Need to polish up your knowledge? The Beginner's Guide to SEO has been read over 1 million times and provides comprehensive information you need to get on the road to professional quality SEO.
Website Tutorials
- Wordpress Lessons Straight from Wordpress itself, lessons for creating and using your site.
- How to Create a Blog Post Blogging with WordPress lets you share your thoughts for free, and posting is easy. The blogging software lets you add a photo, video, audio file, or other media. This video tutorial shows how to post a blog in the program and join the blogosphere.
- HTML Code Help This is a great reference site for finding html code to do almost anything you want. From creating hyperlinks, to lists, tables, and hardcoding pictures - it's here.
- Webmaster Tutorials This site is also a great resource HTML code language and many other aspects of creating and using websites.
- Wordpress Videos If you prefer to learn via video, this site has quite a few videos on many different aspects of using Wordpress
Payment Processors
- Authorize.net Authorize.Net manages the submission of payment transactions to the processing networks on behalf of its merchant customers. Since 1996, Authorize.Net has been a leading provider of payment gateway services, enabling merchants to accept credit card and electronic check payments from Web sites, retail stores, mail order/telephone order (MOTO) centers or mobile devices.
- PayPal Business Standard With Website Payments Standard, you can add a payment button to your site and accept credit card orders securely or integrate it into a small shopping cart on your website. Your customers don't even need a PayPal account. Easy setup, no programming skills required. No setup or monthly charges. Best for incidental income for your business. If your website represents a significant portion of your income, Authorize.net is a better solution.
Wordpress Plugins
- All in One SEO Pack Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).
- CommentLuv Premium CommentLuv Premium allows you to unlock advanced backlink features on 10′s of thousands of blogs. It has been shown to increase comments and traffic to blogs that install it and helps to make your posts go viral by integrating with twitter, facebook and google plus. It combines 8 plugins in to 1 which all work in harmony to reduce spam, provide stats of where your links are being clicked, deny trackbacks from spammers, allow users to use keywords in their name, leave their twitter name in the comments, showcase your top commenters and more.
- FoxyCart FoxyShop is an extremely flexible e-commerce application that lets you set up a fully-functional web store in minutes. WordPress developers can easily customize the way everything looks and feels. FoxyCart’s hosted solution takes care of the SSL as well as the shopping cart and checkout experience.
- Google XML Sitemaps Generates a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog.
- Gravity Forms Allows you to create a whole host of forms, from Contact Us to community submitted posts. All with the option to automatically add them to your MailChimp list (with double opt in). This is a premium plugin, but well worth the cost.
- SEOPressor SEOPressor is like an SEO expert standing beside you. It intelligently optimize your website to rank high on search engines and automatically attract FREE organic traffic automatically, guaranteed!
- Popup Domination Pop Up Domination is a plugin that works on WordPress blogs and HTML websites that allows you to create beautiful pop up ads that you then use to capture more email subscribers.
- Sucuri Web Integrity Monitor Has your site been hacked? Did you find malicious content on your server and can't get rid of it? They can help you get cleaned up, and keep it clean without the fuss!
- WordPress Security Monitoring Do you need extra security for your WordPress site? Want to keep it fully monitored and protected? Want to block attackers before they do any damage? You are on the right place. Their WordPress Security Plugin will monitor your site from the inside, creating a complete audit trail, alerting you of possible security issues (file changes, password guessing attacks, etc) and blocking the attackers. This is the perfect complement for their external security scans.
- WP Complete Backup WP Backup Complete is an easy to use, complete backup solution for WordPress. The plugin offers the ability to backup the database as well as make a complete file system backup.
- Zemanta Zemanta finds related content while you write your post, so you can add pictures, links and widgets with a single click.
Email List, Opt In, and Campaign Management
- MailChimp MailChimp helps you design email newsletters, share them on social networks, integrate with services you already use, and track your results. It's like your own personal publishing platform.
- Popup Domination Pop Up Domination is a plugin that works on WordPress blogs and HTML websites that allows you to create beautiful pop up ads that you then use to capture more email subscribers.
SOCIAL MEDIA RESOURCES
Facebook Management and Apps
- Create a Facebook "Like" Page Start here to create your new Business Page on Facebook
- Inside Facebook
- MailChimp Facebook App This is the connection between your MailChimp account and your Facebook tab or landing page
- RSS Graffiti Insert RSS Feeds onto your Facebook page
- dlvr.it Insert RSS Feeds into your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc to create posts & updates
- Hootsuite With HootSuite, you can monitor keywords, manage multiple Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Ping.fm and WordPress profiles, schedule messages, and measure your success.
- Klout The standard of influence in social media - offers pointers for improving score. Measures how "influential" Twitter accounts, displays in Hootsuite
Twitter Management
- Facebook ➽ Twitter Connect Connect your Facebook Business page to your Twitter account here. If it happens on Facebook, it happens on Twitter
- Listorious Use to find lists of Twitter accounts to follow by subject, location, or interest
- Socialoomph Get the free account and signup for "Follow those who follow you" to automatically followback everyone who follows your Twitter account.
- Manage Flitter When it's time to see who isn't following you and to unfollow them, Manage Flitter is the best app out there
- dlvr.it Insert RSS Feeds into your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc to create posts & updates
- Hootsuite With HootSuite, you can monitor keywords, manage multiple Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Ping.fm and WordPress profiles, schedule messages, and measure your success.
- Bit.ly This is a URL shortener to save space in Twitter, you can use the API from your account in dlvr.it to monitor usage of your shortened URLs
- Klout The standard of influence in social media - offers pointers for improving score. Measures how "influential" Twitter accounts, displays in Hootsuite
- Twitter Grader Another Twitter ranking system, also offering pointers, search others in your area to find/follow influential followers
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