I have been doing web design for over 10 years and built over 100 websites. I geek out on SEO. I love teaching. I have been studying and leading workshops with the Art of Living Foundation since 2001. For fun, I like to learn and teach anything I can get my hands on, from web design, to guitar, tennis and beatboxing.
Google has more than 200 factors it looks at when deciding how to rank a website in it’s results pages… so how do you know which are the most important to focus on when you’re layout out your pages and configuring your site? In order to distill their SEO research and help make the on-site […]
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The “HybridConnect” plugin advertises itself as being responsive, but for some reason, only the embedded forms are responsive and the lightbox is not. In fact, it is so NOT mobile friendly that when we enabled the plugin is was completely blocking mobile users from accessing a site! This is important, because while some users find […]
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While web design trends keep evolving, many websites don’t. This infographic originally seen at Who Is Hosting This highlights some examples of outdated design trends and of how to replace and improve upon them. From pointless splash pages, to gaudy fonts and flashing scrolling text… we’re ready to be done with them, right? If your site is still […]
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Ever feel like you’re blogging into thin air? Pouring your self into your blog and consistently not getting any comments can get very discouraging. But don’t worry. You’re not alone, and there are (easy) things you can do to help. First off, if your site is barely getting any visitors there is of course no […]
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Why Do I Recommend WP Engine? Speed WP Engine is generally considered the fastest WordPress host online. This is because they have a built-in CDN (Content Delivery Network) page database and object caching with international data centers to boot! Paying for a CDN separately can easily cost more than the price of WP-Engine premium hosting! They […]
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We’ve spend hundreds of hours researching the best Premium WordPress Plugins, so you don’t have to! Working exclusively with WordPress for years, we have found many premium plugins and services that stand heads and shoulders above their free and paid competitors. We do receive a small commission for purchase made through this page, but would recommend […]
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What is Newsjacking? Newsjacking, as bestselling author David Meerman Scott defines it, is about injecting your ideas into breaking news stories. Essentially, you give a breaking news story (or trending twitter hashtag) a personal twist with a very quickly published blog or social media post. Benefits of Newsjacking Journalists look for experts to quote in their second […]
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Because many business bloggers have a fairly narrow subject range, it can often be hard to come up with new ideas on the same topics. Here’s one method to quickly generate a whole list of ideas: Let’s kick it off with a simple “Instructographic” 🙂 Want the details? Keep reading below… Step 1) Choose […]
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Are you an individual who knows the power of blogging, but find it challenging to go from thinking to writing? Or a company or nonprofit full of subject matter experts, but can’t get them to write for you? Want to know the secret to a steady stream of content for your blog? Well, this might be […]
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For all you designers, developers and marketers out there, here is an awesome deals site I came across with heavily discounted deals on images, fonts, WordPress templates and plugins, and training programs on coding, design and more. NOTE: This is a list of ALL their current sales and I have not vetted this list. That […]
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