You know how it is. Day in, day out, the same old same old … all relationships grow stale, over time. If you’ve been with WordPress for a long time, you may have a hard time remember what made it special to you in the first place. Follow our strategies below to find the fun and fall in love with WordPress all over again. Improve Your WordPress Game It’s not much fun when you just don’t understand each other. While your relationship with WordPress will undoubtedly be somewhat one-sided in this regard, it’s still possible to deepen your understanding by […]
How to Optimize WordPress Videos for SEO
Video usage and popularity have increased substantially on the web lately. It’s not hard to understand why. After all, video helps simplify complicated topics, is highly popular with online users across the board, and when done correctly, improves conversion rates. Video is a powerful addition to anyone’s content marketing toolbox. Over 60% of users report that they’re more likely to purchase a product after watching a video about it. Video also helps build links — pages with video get on average three times the incoming links as straight-text pages do. If you’ve decided to incorporate video into your WordPress site, […]
9 Tools to Promote WordPress Products Quickly and Easily
WordPress developers who create themes and plugins for sale usually want to increase sales and profits — that’s a given. But what’s the best way to go about reaching that goal? It can be hard to get your brand and your product out there enough for people to buy it. Though it can seem daunting to begin to market yourself, we have some ways to make it easier. This article will first show you how to create a simple, effective promotion plan for your WordPress products, and then offer nine different tools to implement that plan. Create a Promotion Plan […]
How To Develop A Brand for Your Small WordPress Business
What exactly is a brand? And how do you, as a solo WordPress business owner and service professional, create a brand that works for you? Seth Godin’s definition helps with the first question: And for the second? We’ve got you covered. Here’s a guide to branding for a small WordPress development or design business using a shoestring budget and a simplified, bootstrap approach. No expensive market research, no (or not much) branding lingo, just straightforward minimalist steps you can take to create a brand that resonates with your ideal clients and works hard for you. Establish Your Brand Values Who […]
The Future Of WordPress In 2017
WordPress has come a long way since its 2003 inception as a nascent blogging platform, forked from b2/cafelog. Now a full-fledged CMS, WordPress enjoys a significant market share, powering 26.9% of the world’s websites all told, and almost 60% of the websites built using a known CMS. As the web has evolved, so has WordPress along with it. For example, the WP REST API enables apps powered by JavaScript to run on the platform. Not much of a surprise, then, that at last year’s State of the Word, Mullenweg urged WordPress users to learn JavaScript, stating: “I believe quite strongly […]
Should You Ever Work For Free As A WordPress Developer?
When you’re a newly minted WordPress developer, you are met with many challenges, but perhaps most taxing is, where to look for new clients. It can be a challenge of epic and perplexing proportions. So it probably shouldn’t surprise anyone that so many new developers feel compelled to work for free. It happens to a lot of developers in the beginning of their careers, judging from the results for the exact phrase search “should you work for free”: The solution to the “work for free” quandary really boils down to how you answer three simple questions: How do so many […]
The Pros and Cons Of Pop-Ups
Ah, the eternal question: To pop-up, or not to pop-up? All apologies to Hamlet, but this question just became critical, thanks to Google’s recent announcement that it’ll begin penalizing sites for certain types of pop-up ads. If you missed this announcement, or if you caught it but are wringing your hands trying to decide what to do about it, this article is for you. The Details Of Google’s New Pop-up Penalty The official announcement states that Google will begin docking sites with certain pop-ups — what they call “intrusive interstitials” — that make the underlying content less accessible. What does […]
Basics Of Creating A WordPress Landing Page
Landing pages are single web pages designed to persuade a viewer to do one thing, and one thing only. What that “one thing” is can vary quite a bit, but two of the most common purposes include persuading a visitor to opt-in to an email list or sign up for a free trial of a product or service. If you’re ready to incorporate landing pages into your content marketing mix but don’t know where to start, this article is for you. Let’s begin! 1. Study Effective Landing Pages And Learn What Makes Them Work One of the best things you […]
Is Your Site Translation-Ready? Here’s How to Tell
Pop quiz: Out of the ten countries that search most often for “WordPress themes,” what’s the highest rank achieved by an English-speaking country? We’ll just tell you: it’s the United States, and it comes in 9th. In fact, the English-language version doesn’t even make up half of all WordPress core-file downloads. Of course, these facts shouldn’t be terribly surprising, since English is far from the most commonly-spoken language in the world. It’s third, behind Mandarin and Spanish. One reason why WordPress is so popular all around the globe is its availability in so many different languages. In 2014, the number […]
Top 5 Finance Apps For WordPress Developers
At some point, your business might outgrow PayPal. You may even be there already. While PayPal is perfectly adequate for part-time WordPress developers, or those who are just starting out. But if you’re serious about your business, it pays to investigate more full-featured solutions that will help you whip your business finances into shape. Solid billing/invoicing systems help improve your business’s cash flow, put more money in your wallet, and achieve your financial goals. We have five finance apps that are perfect for your business. As Erika Napoletano says, “Smart small businesses know that they need a billing, invoicing, and […]
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