WordPress Tips from Sacramento
Technical guides, case studies, and SEO strategies from 19 years of WordPress development.
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AI Content Strategy: 6 Ways to Use AI for Your WordPress Blog
I publish 8 to 12 blog posts per month across the WordPress sites I manage. Before I built an AI content strategy into my workflow, that number was four. Same hours, double the output, and the content performs better in search. The difference is not working harder. It is working with AI at every stage
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Redirect Chains: How to Find and Fix Them in WordPress
I ran a redirect audit on a 300-page WordPress site last month and found 47 redirect chains. Some of them were four hops deep. The site had been accumulating redirects for six years across three redesigns, two domain changes, and dozens of slug updates. Google was burning crawl budget following those chains on every single
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AI for Content Marketing: What Works and What Doesn’t in 2026
I have published over 400 blog posts using AI-assisted workflows since 2024. Some of those posts rank on page one and generate leads every week. Others got flagged by Google’s helpful content system and tanked within a month. The difference was never the AI tool I used. It was how I used it. AI content
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Content Hubs: 7 Steps to Beat Big Competitors With WordPress
A 12-page WordPress site cannot outrank a 500-page enterprise domain by publishing random blog posts. But it can outrank that domain on specific topics by building content hubs. I have used this approach on over 30 WordPress sites since 2020, and the pattern holds every time: a focused hub of 8-15 interlinked pages will outperform
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Content Promotion: 15 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your WordPress Blog Posts
Publishing a blog post without promoting it is like opening a store and never telling anyone the address. I have seen WordPress site owners spend 8 hours writing a post and 0 minutes on content promotion. The result is predictable: 12 pageviews in the first month, most of them from the author checking if the
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Content Cluster Strategy: How to Structure WordPress for Topical Authority
I have audited over 60 WordPress sites where the blog had 50+ published posts and fewer than 800 monthly organic visits. The problem was never the writing quality or the keyword targeting. The problem was structure. Every post existed as an island, unconnected to any central topic. Google could not figure out what the site
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How to Write Headlines That Get Clicks: 15 Formulas for WordPress Bloggers
I published 312 blog posts across WordPress sites last year. The posts that flopped and the posts that drove thousands of visits had one consistent difference: the headline. Not the content depth, not the featured image, not the publish time. The headline. Copyblogger’s research puts a hard number on it: 80% of people read the
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How to Update Old Blog Posts for SEO in WordPress
Most WordPress sites have blog posts sitting at the bottom of page two in Google, collecting dust. These posts already have backlinks, indexing history, and topical authority. They just need a refresh. When I update old blog posts for SEO, I regularly see 40-80% traffic increases within 30 days, and the work takes a fraction
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Ideal Blog Post Length: How Long Should Your WordPress Posts Be?
I’ve published over 200 WordPress blog posts across 14 client sites since 2019. The ones that rank on page one average 1,547 words. The ones stuck on page three average 612 words. But the ideal blog post length is not a single number. It depends on what you’re writing, who you’re writing for, and what
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How Often Should I Blog? A Realistic Publishing Schedule for WordPress
I have managed blog publishing schedules for over 30 WordPress sites since 2019. The sites that publish once per week consistently outperform the ones that publish five posts in a burst and then go silent for two months. Frequency matters, but consistency matters more. The question “how often should I blog?” has a real answer
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