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Weekly Links Roundup – Appointment Plugins, Push Notifications, Making Money Online

This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. In the last month two clients have contacted me about adding an appointment scheduling capability to their websites. Here’s a review of 15 appointment plugins – I’m a fan of BirchPress, having used it several times, but any…

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Weekly Links Roundup – Conversions, HTTPS, SEO, A/B Testing

This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. Is your website suffering from a lack of conversions? Here’s a guide to four common problems that drive low conversion rates and how to address them. I’ll add a fifth: no or ineffective calls-to-action (or sometimes, way too…

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Weekly Links Roundup – Credibility, Real Estate Plugins, Hosting

This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. You’ve got a great-looking business website full of useful, high-quality content. What else can you do to enhance your site’s credibility? Try using these trustmarks to make your customers more confident in using your site. They include things like…

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Friday Link Wrapup – Decluttering, CloudFlare, Blogging Plugins, Lazy Loading Images

This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. Is your WordPress site looking a bit cluttered? WordPress makes it easy to add lots of different kinds of content – but at some point, enough is enough (besides being harder to comprehend, too much stuff can impact…

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Friday Link Wrapup – Messy Media Library, Permalinks, Blogging Tips, Themes for Musicians

This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. Is your WordPress Media Library one big mess? The older your site gets the more it’s likely to happen, because (surprisingly) core WordPress still doesn’t come with any organizational tools for media files. So, here is a review…

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Friday Link Wrapup – Sliders, Changing Ecommerce Platforms, Redirects

This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. To slide or not to slide? The poor slideshow has taken a beating from web designers in the last few years as being too big, too distracting, and a waste of space, but some of us still believe…

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Friday Link Wrapup – Contest Plugins, WooCommerce and Square, Site Speed

This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. Looking for a way to run a contest from your WordPress site? Here’s a review of 10 competition plugins that will help you do that – from photo and video contests to polls and surveys. If you’re a…

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Friday Link Wrapup – Analytics, True Cost of WordPress, Membership Sites

This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. If you’re new to Google Analytics and not sure how to use it or even what you should be looking for, here’s a good introduction. See 6 things that Google Analytics can tell you about your WordPress site….