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Can anyone advise me on which theme would be best for my Wordpress website? Just setting it up properly for future intention. Taken on board that I need written substance on my social media, so have decided to concentrate on my script, which doesn't require feedback from a fan based, and in the mean time set up my sites for activating once I start on my prose, in addition to the script..
can anyone suggest which themes to select from? There's so many I'm a bit confused...?
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I have a favourite and can let you know the name but have to go out soon and blood sugar ow, I'll have a look later.
You need to try a few and see which you like best. They don't all have the same options and colour schemes, so if you want a particular look that will influence your decision.
https://3000poems.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/first-blog-post/?preview_id=6&preview_nonce=8617ce0164&_thumbnail_id=-1&preview=true
Once I know which things I want to blog about and how I want to relate to any potential subscribers etc, then I will have a better idea of what is needed for my social media.
For now, experimenting is the key. To find out what works and what doesn't...
https://themoustachioedreader.wordpress.com
I want to change this name to my author's one to enable potential followers to search on Google for it. The advice I received was too keep the current custom name.
So confused now. Wouldn't that make it more difficult to locate my writer's name, which is what would need to be promoted..?
Can anyone give me a straight forward answer as to how these would help people find my website posts?
Thinking that I should use the words romantic author in this domain name, to represent my novellas, but what about my film scripts? Should I include a reference to these and, if so, wouldn't the name be getting too long and no longer catchy and simple to use? What word could I substitute instead of author? There's writer but that sounds too general and non specific... any suggestions here..?
'Romance words linger' or 'Romance word slinger'?
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Can anyone suggest a strong keyword to use for writing to add onto a primary custom name to easily be located on search engines..? Using .net and or .org...? Bearing in mind I am now concentrating on script writing, but keeping the keyword as open as possible in case I divert in other writings later..
will do a search on Google, but thought I'd ask the experts here too.
Quill and Ink?
If I chose a .net or .org for my domain name and no other writer had the lhthorn.writing.net/org would search engines by able to distinguish between mine and the other writer and their domain name, .which has the writing.com attached which is why I cannot use it...?
And surely if you are trying to lure followers to your social media then using your pen name is a must? A given...?
lhthornwriter.whatever (co.ok/com/net etc)
If you use something like 123-reg.co.uk you can test out any permutation of names and co/com/net/org etc and see which is/are available and the cost to buy. 123 also do a web builder package - was quite cheap for a years use when I signed up a few months back. £12 for first year or something. They have many templates you can build your site from.
To simplify, what I meant by that is that when a person clicks on romanticink.co.uk, the reader will see that the site is a showcase of works by LH Thorn.
Too many late nights for you, Lydia.
And thanks, Kramer, but I'm having enough difficulties with this website to consider going elsewhere.
It's simply that my mind functions creatively, so analytical thinking is difficult for me. Apologies if this is all self evident to you experts...
Not understanding the differences of these domain names properly, would it make any difference with search engines, quickness in locating the name etc, if I put .com or .blog on the end of my domain name... tried googling this but nothing relevant came up.
Should you later want to sell books, etc from your site, it will appear far more professional with a dot com (slightly more expensive too) tag. One could see a dot blog tag as restricted only to a blog. I can't offer much on the search results for each, save to say that searches generally rely on number of hits per site for their ratings. On that basis, either should rate similarly.
Just wondering about my tumblr site. It's domain name and whether I should map it to Wordpress? Or to link Wordpress with tumblr, other way round? They are two different social media sites with different followers expecting different things. So should I directly link them or just add contacts details for them?
The Fiverr expert that set up tumblr said I didn't need to post on Wordpress, just link it to tumblr....? They do seem to be more wordy on Wordpress, the bloggers and, aiming my stories to primarily the Wattpad crowd, think they would mostly be on tumblr, from my research, and prefer mostly images than lengthy blog posts...?
And it works great as a personal blog, as well as for business. So I'd just like to thank Liz for suggesting this theme as being a suitably simple one for my needs..
At the bottom of your Wordpress blog you can put buttons to share to Facebook, Tumblr, Google+ and Twitter.
Each time you blog you can set it up to go to Facebook automatically. Then you go to your page with your bog post on and press 'Tumblr' and it will post to Tumblr and so on. You don't need ot worry about who reads what as it can post to all places.