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Weekly Links Roundup – Product Descriptions, Button Design, Accessibility, Low-cost Marketing Ideas

The top website and online marketing links of the week. Selling online? Check out this detailed post on how to write a good product description. A persuasive product description might be the very last chance you have to convince a potential customer to buy – just like high-quality photos are critical for ecommerce sites, so…

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Weekly Links Roundup – Content First, Free Plugins, FAQ Plugins, Gallery Comparison

The top website and online marketing links of the week. One thing that often surprises my design clients is the immediately request for their content when their website project starts. Often, especially for a first website, they have no clue what content they’re going to have. This makes my job as a designer much, much…

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Weekly Links Roundup – Old Redirects, Nonprofit Sites, Calls to Action, Hacked Sites

The top website and online marketing links of the week. When is it safe to remove old redirects within your site? The answer may surprise you – it could be ‘never.’ Learn how to judge if it’s okay to remove that old redirect or not. Do you have a nonprofit website? If you do, this…

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Weekly Links Roundup – Republish Old Posts, Content Curation, Website Footers, More Conversions

The top website and online marketing links of the week. Do you ever republish your old blog posts? If you don’t, you should consider it. It’s likely there are great old posts that just need a little updating before they’re ready to put in front of newer readers. Recycling old content is often much easier…

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Weekly Links Roundup – 2018 Marketing Statistics, Blogging Benefits, Website Redesigns

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…

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Weekly Links Roundup – Contact Pages, Phone Numbers, Branding, Video Editors

The top website and online marketing links of the week. Contact pages – not the most exciting topic, right? But so important: getting that user to get in touch with you may be the most critical conversion on your site. Here’s a great post on 25 amazing contact pages that may help you rethink the…

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Weekly Links Roundup – Social Media Auto Posting, SEO Glossary, SEO Challenges, Color

The top website and marketing links of the week. Need an easy way to manage the auto-posting of your WordPress blog posts to your various social media sites? Here’s a roundup of 10 plugins for social media auto-posting. I use Revive Old Post for republishing old content, and I’ve also used a plugin not on…

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Weekly Links Roundup – Thanking Customers, Old Content, Too Many Choices, Trello

The top website and marketing links of the week. Making sure your customers know you appreciate them is an ongoing and critical task for business owners. Here are some ideas for thanking your customers from Constant Contact. What to do with the old content on your website is another constant question. Here are some good…

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Weekly Links Roundup – Slow WordPress Dashboard, Facebook Marketing, SEO Problems, Trust

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,…

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Weekly Links Roundup – WordPress, Monetization, SEO Wins, Design Trends

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…