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
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Weekly Links Roundup – Engagement, One-page Sites, WooCommerce, Trust
The top website and marketing links of the week. If you’re using social media to help promote your business, you probably have found that a lack of engagement from your followers is a very frustrating thing. Here are 10 tips on improving engagement in social media marketing. Considering a redesign of your business site as a one-page website? Learn about the pros and cons of this popular trend. One important thing to also consider is SEO. If you’re depending on Google Search to gain new customers, a multi-page site will offer many more opportunities to be found. Learn about single-page… Continue Reading
Weekly Links Roundup – Creating Trust, Hosting Multiple Sites, Instagram, SSL
The top website and marketing links of the week. Not just for websites… learn how attentive UX design can help you create trust for your brand across the board (but note how important good website design is!). How many business websites do you have? If you’re like one of my clients, you might have 6 – and hopefully they’re not using the same hosting account like his sites are! If you do this, you put all your sites at risk. If one gets hacked, all of them can easily be compromised. The best situation is one site per hosting account… Continue Reading
Weekly Links Roundup – UX, Google and Trust, Scene Generators
The top website and marketing links of the week. Does your website delight your users? Or does it leave them with a less-than-satisfied feeling? Read this article about UX (user experience) and find out how poorly designed websites are a lot like having a cranky receptionist with a bad attitude. Did you know that Google gets around 30 billion search queries every month? That’s staggering! And I’m sure you’ve heard the recent talk about potential biases in the major search and online news providers. Here’s an interesting recent post about how much trust people put into Google search results. And… Continue Reading
Friday Link Wrapup – Email, Social Links, Facebook Marketing, Trust
The top website and marketing links for this week. If you’re emailing customers or clients and never hearing back, you know the pain of having them tell you “it wound up in my junk folder.” Here are some tips on improving email deliverability. Ever wondered if the header (or footer) is really the best place to display the links to your social networks? Here’s a post that looks at 9 big brands and how they choose to display social links, it might inspire you to make a change. Speaking of social media… if engagement on your Facebook page isn’t where… Continue Reading