When it comes to hosting, you have plenty of options to pick from. There are hundreds of web hosts you can use, and they often provide various types of plans. Some of the options are fairly self-explanatory, such as ‘shared’ plans or ‘dedicated’ servers, but that isn’t necessarily the case with cloud hosting. Cloud computing has been around for a while, but it was only during the back half of the last decade that it started to pick up steam within hosting. It’s a perfect match, however, because cloud computing enables you to increase or decrease the resources you have […]
How to Recognize Scams Targeting Your Website
One of the downsides to owning your own website or domain is that you have to register, mostly using personal information, in a public directory of sorts. Anyone can look up a URL or site and immediately see the owner, as well as their related contact information. It’s not a big deal until marketers and scammers start soliciting you. How many times have you seen an email from someone unknown that claims to be able to fix your blog or website’s SEO problems? Probably often. If you have a WordPress-powered site, you’ll see similar comments there. What you may not […]
6 Tips From Experts on Optimizing Websites for Google’s Lighthouse 3.0 Speed Tests
So much SEO advice focuses on aspects of optimization around content strategy, outreach, and competitor tracking. But even the best backlinks can’t replace a fast and easy-to-use website. Even though site speed has been considered a ranking factor for nearly a decade, the technical side of SEO tends to get ignored. While WordPress does have some features that make SEO easier, it also has several aspects of it that need adjustment for each site. And depending on your setup, you could be sabotaging your own site load speeds. Indeed, the content management system you use is only the beginning of […]
9 Ways to Reduce Shopping Cart Abandonment in WordPress
Finding ways to reduce shopping cart abandonment is one of the main challenges in running an e-commerce site. Research suggests that up to 75 percent of all online shopping carts are abandoned before making a purchase. Of course, this phenomenon has serious consequences for your bottom line. Because of that, in this post, we will talk about how to tackle this problem. You will learn the main reasons for shopping cart abandonment as well as solutions to stop it from happening to you. Note, this stuff will also help if your site is not built with WordPress. However, some of […]
How to Convince Your Clients to Upgrade Their Hosting
Sometimes, part of working as a developer is advising clients on the more technical aspects of running their websites. This can get tricky when you have to convince clients to spend more money on aspects of their sites that they may not fully understand, such as hosting. However, by carefully explaining the benefits of investing in their websites, you can often help your clients see the value in decisions such as choosing a more expensive hosting plan. Plus, you’ll help them become more independent site owners, which results in less burden on you over the long term. In this post, […]

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