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How to Add Feedburner Email Subscription to WordPress

Custom WordPress Sites, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Tutorials

Feedburner is a wonderful tool that allows visitors to your site to either subscribe via email or an RSS feed and received updates of your site every time you add one.  I find this tool extremely helpful for the person who enjoys my content but may not always have time to come by my site every day and see what I have written.

Adding this simple widget to the sidebar of your site gives people a really easy way to enter their email address, confirm their subscription and then get email updates.  I was having a conversation with someone earlier today who didn’t realize this option was available on Feedburner, so I decided I would do a quick tutorial on how to set it up:

So do you use Feedburner?  If not, what do you use to give your consumers the ability to subscribe via email?

Tracking Your Images Through Google Search By Image For Theft

Online Consulting, Social Media Advisors

If you are like me, you spend a good amount of time either taking your own photos or creating graphics for your sites.  From time to time though, I have found others using my pictures without my permission.  When this happens it really upsets me.

In the past I have tried other image search services, but was not really impressed by the results.  It seemed they would always miss several places that I personally knew the image was placed because I put them there.  My thought always was that if it missed the places I know I put it, how many others did it miss.

Today though, I found Google’s Search By Image. I gave it a test run & was very impressed with the results.  I believe one reason this works better than many of the other image search platforms is that it is directly connected into Google which is the world’s largest search engine of anything.

Here’s a short video walkthrough of it:

Have you tried Google search by image yet?  If so, I’d love to hear in the comments below your thoughts on this feature.  If you haven’t given it a test yet, go try it out & let me know what you think!

How To Embed YouTube Videos in WordPress

Custom WordPress Sites, How To Blog, Video, WordPress Tutorials

I had a friend the other day who said it was hard to create a new page inside WordPress and then embed a YouTube video into it.  Since I’ve been asked this question before, I figured it was time to do a quick tutorial.  Watch the video below and it will walk you through both of these steps:


One thing to remember when doing this:  Write all of your content before clicking over to the HTML tab to embed the code.  If you switch back from the HTML to visual tab to add more content or edit the content, it strips out part of the coding making your video not load.  The pasting of the embed should always be the last thing you do.

Hope this helps, and if you would like to see more tutorials like this, leave a comment below and I will make one in the near future!