July 14, 2015 — Okay, so you have a blog set up.. now what?
What are the guidelines for Google?
How to get your readers to sign up.
What are dofollow links?
Ad what? Using Adsense and other sources to monetize your site.
Depending on the audience, either start with the basic setup and plugins needed to run a blog on your site or take things to a higher level with affiliate links, ads and sponsored posts.

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July 13, 2015 — This talk focuses on my five key tips and tricks to creating better product photos for social media, marketing, and website use. While we will focus heavily on the photography side of things, there will be social media tidbits thrown in along the way.

July 13, 2015 — In this session, I plan to solve the “pages vs. posts” mystery. Many new users of WordPress get confused by this. What’s the difference. When to I post, when do I add a page. We’ll dawn our best Scooby Doo hats and solve this mystery once and for all.

July 13, 2015 — Vagrant is a fantastic piece of software that allows developers and testers to create portable, reusable and easily reproducible development environments. This session covers the functional aspects and a quick demo of the workflow of using Vagrant specifically for WordPress development.

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July 12, 2015 — Sharing data on the web can unlock benefits both for yourself and for others. We’ll explore the different ways data can be published, the advantages of publishing open data and the extra things you can do to make that data more accessible and easier for others to reuse.

July 12, 2015 — PHP 7 is right around the corner, aimed to be released before the end of 2015. With the previous major release of PHP having happened more than a decade ago, it’s an exciting milestone in PHP’s history, that promises to bring both far-reaching performance boosts for real world workloads and a host of new features. In the keynote, Zeev shares the evolution of PHP’s major versions, the behind-the-scenes story of how PHP 7 came to be and its key benefits and features.

July 12, 2015 — Learn how I use my WordPress blog to build my personal brand, Become Visible and push the other Ryan’s further down in the search results.

July 12, 2015 — Podcasts are rising in popularity and allow you to connect more personally with an audience. You can share your passions, or build your business. Learn the plugins, tools, and techniques you’ll need to launch and host a successful podcast from your own WordPress-powered website.

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July 12, 2015 — Even directly out of the box WordPress is one of the most search engine friendly CMS’s in existence. However it doesn’t offer everything you need to make your site search engine friendly without doing a bit of customization. This presentation shows the audience how to make their site search engine friendly. We go through various settings and different plugins that are needed to truly prepare a WordPress website for a full-scale web marketing campaign.

July 12, 2015 — Lessons learned and technologies used in the HeroPress Kickstarter project. (note, this kickstarter will be closed by the time WordCamp comes, I’ll get no financial benefit from this at all. Also, at this point I don’t know if it’ll be a success or not, so it might be a look at what we SHOULD have done)