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What You Need To Know About AMP And Instant Articles

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Brandon Yanofsky

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Featured

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March 22, 2016

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While there have been many efforts to make the web faster, the mobile web is still pretty slow. This can be attributed to slow mobile networks or to websites that aren’t optimized for mobile. But ever since mobile web use surpassed desktop usage, companies have been working to build better, faster mobile web experiences. They’ve seen how a slow web page can affect their profits. For every second it takes their website to load, they lose a substantial percentage of visitors. In fact, according to Kissmetrics, “47 percent of consumers expect a web page to load in two seconds or […]

What’s New In WordPress: 3/21/2016

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Emily Schiola

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News

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March 21, 2016

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Have a news tip or an upcoming event you’d like to see in our weekly ‘What’s New In WordPress’ roundup? Write us at [email protected]. The Globalization of WordPress : From WordCamp Europe to Global Translation Day, WordPress is becoming more and more global. How can you help spread the CMS to different countries? Government-wide Open Source Software Policy: The government is looking to go open source, and it is asking for advice from the WordPress population. Go on GitHub to share your ideas. 8 Ways To Increase Website Traffic Without Creating New Content: You may have heard that “content is king” on […]

8 Ways To Increase Website Traffic Without Creating New Content

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Nick Schäferhoff

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Featured

Published

March 21, 2016

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One of the most common pieces of advice to increase website traffic is to “create great content on a regular basis”. Even I have said the same in the past. It makes sense. High-quality, relevant content is a key component in bringing visitors to your site and the reason why content marketing has been all the rage these past years. Plus, with its history as a blogging platform, WordPress is perfectly suited to build content-centered websites. However, content creation has its own set of challenges, the biggest of which: finding the time. In fact, in a 2015 survey lack of […]

Top 5 Sites To Hire Great WordPress Developers And Designers

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Nelson Wang

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Beginners, Featured

Published

March 18, 2016

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I had just written the #1 resumes bestseller on Amazon and had hit over 40,000 Kindle downloads. All I had to do next was to build a website to help promote it. “That should be easy!” I thought. I was so wrong. When I created my first website, I overspent on my budget, couldn’t complete the project, and ultimately failed. I know firsthand some of the challenges faced when building a WordPress site. I’m here to share my lessons so that you don’t have to experience the challenges that I ran into. At the time, this was my first foray into […]

5 Takeaways From This Week’s AMA With Mark Forrester

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Emily Schiola

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Community, News

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March 17, 2016

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Yesterday, Mark Forrester stopped by ManageWP to answer some questions in their weekly AMA. Forrester is the co-founder of WooThemes and is now working for Automattic after the acquisition. He received many questions about eCommerce, WooThemes, and his new baby. Here are five takeaways: Perseverance Is The Key To Success. There are many things needed to grow a business, but perseverance is essential. It took WooCommerce four years to build and nurture a trustworthy brand in the WordPress community. One way Woo did this was with a freemium model. Once you have the customers, you need to make sure you keep […]

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