The top website and online marketing links of the week. If you have multiple brick-and-mortar locations, a really useful feature you can add to your WordPress site is a store locator – a map showing pins for each of your locations. Clicking on a pin opens up address and other info about that location. Here’s a small roundup of 5 top store locator plugins. I’ve used Store Locator on a few sites, pretty easy to use, but these other plugins also look promising. And speaking of WordPress plugins, here’s a big review of the single best plugin across many categories…. Continue Reading
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Weekly Links Roundup – Ashburn VA, Adobe Apps, Forms, Remarketing
The top website and online marketing links of the week. Ever noticed, if you’re like most Google Analytics users, how much traffic you get from Ashburn, VA? Turns out Ashburn is a big technology center – 70% of the world’s Internet traffic flows through there; about 2.2 trillion Google searches per day. Adobe’s app subscriptions are undeniably expensive. Photoshop by itself is $33.99/mo for businesses (right now). The first time I bought Photoshop it was in a box with a bunch of other Creative Suite apps for around $600. But anyway, there are alternatives for everything. Here’s a post on… Continue Reading
Weekly Links Roundup – WordPress Login Pages, Social Media Icons, Starting a Blog, Instagram Marketing
The top website and online marketing links of the week. Done with that boring default WordPress login page? I make a custom one for client projects, and you too can improve both the appearance and security of your site’s login page. Check out this roundup of 16 WordPress login page plugins. Do you use social media? And do you help your website users find you on social media by putting social icons on your site to link to your social media pages? If you don’t, you should do it. But where should they go? In the header? The footer? The… Continue Reading
Weekly Links Roundup – Blog Comments, HTTPS Problems, Website Ownership, Social Media Marketing
The top website and online marketing links of the week. Everything you ever wanted to know about comments in WordPress – what they are and how to manage them. If you’ve decided not to allow commenting in your blog or are currently on the fence about it, check out this post on allowing blog comments or not which has some actual data behind it. Ultimately it’s your decision about what’s best for your site. Have you made the big switch to HTTPS – bought or gotten a free SSL certificate, had it installed on your site, and done what you… Continue Reading
Weekly Links Roundup – Best Pinterest Images, Recycle Old Content, Analytics, Google My Business
The top website and online marketing links of the week. Pinterest can be a great marketing platform for your business if your customers are there (same goes for all social media platforms). But do you know how to maximize your efforts? Here’s a post showing what types of Pinterest images get the most engagement.In short: avoid faces, use vibrant colors (especially red) and include lots of detail in your photos. I’ve written before about reusing your old blog or website content – you spent all that time making it, so why should it not continue to work hard for you… Continue Reading
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 this list: Social Media Auto Publish. It’s free but limited to Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Ever been doing your own SEO (or trying to decipher something your SEO expert sent you) and having to deal with acronyms and terms you don’t recognize? Here’s a comprehensive… Continue Reading
Weekly Links Roundup – Online Sales Tax, When to Post on Instagram, Growing Your Email List
The top website and marketing links of the week. For clients starting an ecommerce site, one of the biggest questions I hear is “how do I deal with taxes?” It’s been a moving target for a long time. WooCommerce has recently started offering integrated automatic sales tax calculations, which might be a very helpful thing. There are also paid tax tools like TaxJar and Avalara if you have a more complex or multi-location business setup. It is complicated for sure, but these tools can take a lot of the effort out of keeping track of taxes. More info on the… Continue Reading
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, but in case that’s not your issue, there are other things you can troubleshoot and this post will help you do just that. If you’re using Facebook to connect to your audience, here’s a big post detailing 22 Facebook marketing tips for budget-minded small businesses…. Continue Reading