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Why Last Year’s Site Audit May Be Obsolete
Most businesses that take their digital strategy seriously understand the importance of regular site audits. Much like running diagnostics on a vehicle or having an annual checkup with the doctor, a website audit gives perspective on which parts of the website are in good health and what parts could stand a little work. Just as…
Read More So What’s the Deal With Gutenberg?
Whether you are in charge of maintaining your business’s website, an aspiring WordPress developer, or just like to keep up with what’s happening in the WordPress space, you likely have heard the term “Gutenberg” in the past year or so. As a major part of the WordPress 5.0 Bebo update that rolled out on December…
Read More Measuring the Success of Your Digital Strategy
Having a proper digital strategy at hand is a crucial requirement for businesses that want their websites, digital advertisements, and social campaigns to be successful. A clear plan of action helps websites attract more visitors, which translates to more customers and business in the long run. At the start of 2019, we shared some recommended…
Read More Best Practices for Protecting Your WordPress Site
If the events surrounding industry giants such as Facebook and Equifax have taught us anything, it’s that protecting your website is no joke. Not only do you expose your customers to all sorts of risks, but your own organization can face tough issues. From cleaning your site of infections to restoring brand integrity to your…
Read More An Updated Website Can Drive More Revenue
Location, location, location. So goes the old adage when it comes to retail locations in the offline world. But what about online? Well, it’s less about a location or address and more about making the property itself more appealing. Whether you have a small business that provides targeted services in a specific area or operate…
Read More The Importance of Image Optimization for your Business Website
When we perform website audits, image optimization is a frequent cause of poor page speed scores. Addressing image optimization is one of the few optimization tasks that you can tackle with a solid workflow as opposed to needing a development solution. It not only increases user engagement in a significant manner but also helps you…
Read More Selecting Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
You’ve probably read a lot lately about the importance of choosing the right Key Performance Indicators, or KPI. But, what are Key Performance Indicators and which ones are right for you? More importantly, which ones are right for your website? In the general sense, a Key Performance Indicator is any piece of data used as…
Read More Easy Does It – 5 Steps to WordPress Optimization
More sites use WordPress than any other content management system (CMS) in the world. This CMS has been able to achieve this feat through its ease of use, reliability, customization, and smooth operations. However, those characteristics don’t come by default. Like most great inventions, WordPress isn’t perfect all by itself – it needs a human…
Read More Calls-To-Action Demystified
When building websites, someone may ask, “What’s your call-to-action?” So, what are they, and more importantly, why are they important to your website? What Is a Call-To-Action? Simply put, a call-to-action is what you are asking a user to do on a webpage. This “ask” can come in many different forms. Typically for webpages calls-to-action…
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