The top website and online marketing links of the week. First post of 2019! Let’s begin with something that affects most business websites – signup forms. Read about 12 tips for creating better signup forms for your site, including: How many fields to include; Whether to offer some kind of incentive for signing up; How […]
The top website and online marketing links of the week. Are you a stats person? This is just for you! Here is HubSpot’s ultimate list of marketing statistics for 2018 – enjoy! Some of the standouts for me include: 84% of people will not make a purchase if they are dealing with an unsecured website. (Blue […]
The top website and online marketing links of the week. When you change content on your website, do you let Google know about it? I don’t mean a simple change like rearranging a sentence or fixing some grammar errors… more like changing the title of a post, or adding a new section to a services […]
The top website and online marketing links of the week. Think your slow-as-a-turtle website isn’t hurting your business? Think again. Google has been looking at page load time since back in 2010, and they use this information when ranking websites. A study from 2016 showed that over 50% of mobile users would abandon a site […]
Using photos in your posts is important – it helps the user get a better feel for your subject matter. Plus it’s also good for Google Search if you name and attribute the image correctly (learn how to do that in this post from Yoast on Image SEO). But you may think you have to […]
The top website and online marketing links of the week. Ever give much thought to your business email signature? Not for your newsletter – just your everyday email. I have to admit I hadn’t paid much attention to mine in quite a while, but this week a colleague pointed out that I could make that […]
The top website and marketing links of the week. If you find that your WordPress admin dashboard is suddenly running a lot slower – guess what? It’s probably that plugin you installed recently. This post on 14 ways to fix a slow WordPress admin includes a list of 35 plugins known to cause dashboard slowdowns, […]
The top website and marketing links of the week. “Optimize images” is almost always one of the recommendations when testing a slow-loading website. Optimizing means making images no larger (dimensions and resolution) that they need to be for your site to reduce loading time. It also has to do with making them findable in search […]
The top website and marketing links of the week. If you have a business website and are not blogging, why not? Yes, it can be a big time sink. But blogging, for some businesses, is a great way to both grow your website and get more love in Google and other search engines. If you’re […]
The top website and marketing links of the week. Did you know that 30% of the Web now runs on WordPress? Back in 2009 when I was trying to decide which CMS (content management system) platform I should work on mastering, WordPress was one of three or four options. It was a hard choice at […]