By now, you probably know the importance of website loading times and page speed. The internet has been abuzz with news about how loading times impact your bottom line and Google has been pretty clear about favoring fast loading websites and blogs. While there are many ways to optimize the speed of your website, one of the first places you…. Continue Reading
How to Keep Track of Post Ideas in WordPress
If you’ve been blogging for awhile, you know that having a list of post ideas is a great way to ensure you never run out of topics. Keeping track of those ideas is just as important to ensure you don’t forget about them. There are plenty of tools that you can use to jot down post titles. You could use…. Continue Reading
9 WordPress Maintenance Tips to Keep Your Site Running Smoothly
Remember that “new car smell” of your WordPress site? Back when everything was fresh, uncluttered, and totally up to date? Yeah, that lasts a few months. Then, the reality of oil changes and flat tires starts sinking in. Just like you maintain your primary means of transportation, you similarly need to maintain your WordPress site if you want to keep…. Continue Reading
How to Downgrade WordPress Versions, Plugins, and Themes (and Why You Might Want to)
The WordPress core code is updated pretty regularly and in most cases you’re going to want to make sure you upgrade to the latest stable version as soon as possible. Using the latest version of WordPress ensures that you have access to all the latest features and any security holes that have been discovered since the last update have been…. Continue Reading
9 WordPress Hacks To Encourage Higher CTRs From Google
Great content that offers value to readers will rank in Google. But there are tricks you can use to increase your clickthroughs and grab attention from searchers. We have a great guide on basic SEO setup using the WordPress SEO plugin. But this is just the first step of WP SEO and there are many other things you can do…. Continue Reading
What are Exit Intent Pop-ups and Why You Should Use Them on Your WordPress Website
I’m sure you’ve heard how effective pop-ups are at growing email lists and increasing goal conversion rates. However, pop-ups can also be highly annoying and very good at frustrating your hard earned visitors. Thankfully, it doesn’t have to be this way. If you want to experience the impressive results that pop-up optin forms can deliver but you don’t want to…. Continue Reading
Email Marketing Services: 6 Popular Platforms Worth Considering
It seems like just yesterday when the process of selecting an email marketing platform was relatively straightforward. With just a few key players, making a decision was something that could be accomplished at a leisurely afternoon pace. Articles like this one have been surfacing for years, questioning whether the death of email is right around the corner. It appears email…. Continue Reading
30 WordPress Firefox Plugins for Developers and Bloggers
For many years Microsoft’s Internet Explorer ruled the Internet with a de facto monopolistic position. Thank god times have changed. By now the browser landscape is much more diversified and Internet users can choose between a number of browsers. One of them is Firefox, an open-source browser made by Mozilla. Some years back it was the first real contender for…. Continue Reading
Effective WordPress Growth Hacking Techniques and Plugins
With WordPress anyone can build a website — quite literally. The platform is beginner-friendly, powerful and makes the process really easy. However, building a website and building a successful website are very different things. While anyone can now do the first part, not everyone is up for part two. What is a successful website? Simply put, a website that achieves…. Continue Reading
How Much It Cost to Run a Solo Founder Plugin Business
WordPress Plugin and software businesses in general, are great businesses to run. It’s easy to get started (if you’re a developer) and profit margins are usually very high. When I started SeedProd, my Coming Soon Plugin for WordPress business, back in 2011 it only cost me $5 to launch aside from my development time to build the plugin. Today I…. Continue Reading
