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Weekly Links Roundup – Nofollow Links, WooCommerce, Great Headlines, Blogging

This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. Should you ‘nofollow’ all outgoing links in your blog posts? It’s a big question with a complicated answer. Basically, when you link to another site you’re giving them an official vote of confidence, or a statement of trust….

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Weekly Links Roundup – Page Builders, Headline Formulas, Better WordPress Search

This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. As a developer who hand-codes I’m not a fan of page builder themes and plugins. Though I agree that they accomplish their goal very well – enabling users to make nice-looking complex layouts without knowing any code –…

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Weekly Links Roundup – Membership Sites, Not Secure, Emailed Blog Posts, .com to .org

This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. Ever thought about starting a membership website? It can be a daunting proposition. Here’s a short but informative list of FAQs for starting a membership site from MemberPress that may help you gel your ideas before you decide to…

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Weekly Links Roundup – Event Calendars, WooCommerce SEO, Blog Kickstart, Category Pages

This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. Need a great event calendar for your WordPress site. This post (don’t worry that it’s from 2017, it’s all good) reviews 9 top WordPress event calendar plugins, both free and commercial. I’m currently a fan of the free…

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Weekly Links Roundup – CRO, Traffic, 504 Errors, Tag Clouds

This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. CRO (conversion rate optimization) is something I’m always trying to increase for my design clients. Here’s a great post showing how a few key small changes in design can have a huge impact on CRO – in this…

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Weekly Links Roundup – Disabling Comments, Stripe and WooCommerce, Blogging

This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. Should you disable comments on your blog? That can be a big question for some – consider whether comments provide value to your site and readers or not. Is it mostly spam? A plugin can fix that. There…

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Weekly Links Roundup – No Search Indexing, Email Newsletters, 2FA

This week’s WordPress and web marketing links. How to keep Google from indexing your WordPress site for search… Wait! Why would you want to do that? Isn’t the whole point to get found in search? Normally, it is. But there are some situations when you…