Weekly Links Roundup – Better Signup Forms, SEO Plugins, 2019 Holidays, Logo Trends

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 to prevent spam without using a traditional, hard-to-read Captcha.

Next… As a new-ish user of the Genesis Framework, I was interested to see this smackdown between Genesis SEO and Yoast SEO, two of the top SEO solutions for WordPress. I must admit I’m a Yoast fan, but still, this is worth a read if you’re the user of a Genesis theme.

Constant Contact, the email marketing folks with an office right down the street in Loveland, CO, say that January is a great time to start your 2019 marketing and holiday planning. Check out their infographic for January 2019.

Finally… If you’re thinking of a re-branding this year – updating your business logo, for example – you’ll want to take a look at this review of logo design and branding trends for 2019.

Did you find this information useful? Please share with your friends and colleagues! And comment below with questions or observations.