January 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Selling Cars Online Academy has been updated

WordPress Training Videos and More

You may have noticed an update email last weekend for our blog & training site, the Selling Cars Online Academy. We added over 40 WordPress tutorial videos and made it easier to navigate at the same time.

If you are already a Selling Cars Online Academy member make sure to log in so you can view the training content. If you would like to become a member and get access to all the WordPress videos click here.

Another benefit of the new site is that it is running on a new Genesis child theme and uses a responsive layout. This means that it will work on all “smart” devices; iOS, Android etc.

As always if you have any requests for tutorials let us know.

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August 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Build a page in WordPress for SEO

WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin

WordPress is known for being a great website platform for SEO. It is also known for having a lot of really cool plugins. In the video we will take a look at WordPress SEO by Yoast which is a great plugin that provides user input for the SEO elements on your pages or posts.
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Filed Under: Plugins, WordPress, WordPress Tutorials
August 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Service appointment form with Gravity Forms

How to create and import forms with Gravity Forms

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Gravity Forms Contact Form Plugin for WordPress

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July 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment

iFrame Embedder plugin to add iframe content on WordPress

Adding Factory Incentives to Your WordPress Site

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Iframing content is something that you want to avoid whenever possible on your site, especially with key content. However there are times that will require you to use the iframe technique. A few circumstances that come up on car dealer websites are factory incentives and service appointment schedulers.

This screen shot is what we will be adding to a WordPress site in the following video. Just about every manufacture has a similar page that is designed to be iframed into a car dealers website.

Incentives

The following video will walk you through how to add iframe content on WordPress in the form of Toyota factory incentives to your site.

Xtime is another popular tool that gets framed into sites quite a bit. If you ever thought of having a site for just your service department, you could create one with WordPress and add a scheduler like Xtime using the iframe plugin. You can also build your own form using Gravity Forms as described in in this post;

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If you are interested in a more technical review of this plugin please visit http://sterlinghamilton.com/2011/06/29/plugin-review-iframe-embedder/.  Sterling’s reviews go over the basics of WordPress plugins and gives it a score.

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April 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Adding a video plugin to WordPress easy as 1-2-3

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WordPress as a “social” machine

One of the great features of WordPress is that “social” is built in. In addition to having blog roots there are thousands of plugins that you can add to extend the abilities of your site or micro-site. As more and more social and review applications are introduced like Foursquare, Facebook, Twitter, SCVNGR, Yelp, etc., WordPress developers answer the call. This makes it possible to integrate social [Read more...]

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December 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Install a WordPress site on Godaddy

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Install a WordPress site on your Godaddy hosting in just a few minute work

In our first video you set up a hosting account on Godaddy, and in this video we will go through the steps of installing WordPress to that hosting.  It’s super easy and will only take a few minutes of actual work.

You will remember from the first video that we set up a new Godaddy account and then added our hosting to it.  Because of this there wasn’t a domain in the Godaddy account and we set up the hosting based on a domain located in another account all together.  In this video we will not only cover how to install WordPress but will also go into the account with the domain and point it to our new site. [Read more...]

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December 3, 2010 By 1 Comment

Create a Godaddy Hosting Account

How to Create a Hosting Account in Godaddy for an automotive WordPress micro-site

This is a very easy process once you know which links to select and steps to take.  Within about ten minutes you will be done setting up the hosting and will just need to wait a little for the set up process from Godaddy.  In the next video [Read more...]

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November 18, 2010 By 1 Comment

Creating a Satellite-Site Strategy

How many times have you heard that you need to have a plan before doing anything online. Well here is your plan, this is a complete strategy on creating satellite sites for strong SEO. The end result will increase your main website’s search strength, add value to your customers and your community all while increasing your POD score.  Make sure that you are signed up for email updates to get the how to make a free social website with WordPress series as well as other special content that we will send out from time to time.

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