Category: News
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How to Get Your WordPress Website to Show Up in the Google Answer Box
Most websites rely on organic traffic for attracting new visitors. This means you’ll probably need to compete with hundreds if not thousands of other pages for the keywords your content targets. In other words, you need to be better than the competition if you want to climb to the top of relevant Search Engine Result Pages…
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Top Benefits of Responsive Website
The purpose of responsive design is to have one site, but with different elements that respond differently when viewed on devices of different sizes. Responsive web design benefits designers, developers, businesses and, most importantly, users in the following ways: 1. More Mobile Traffic According to a report from SimilarWeb, more than half of traffic to top…
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Local SEO: An Easy to Understand Guide
Your SEO strategy is strong. But have you thought about honing in on your local community? With a focus on local SEO, you can benefit from both general internet searches as well as specialized traffic that will bring in local customers and foot traffic. If you have a physical location, targeting locals can be even…
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Google’s Mobile-First Index Is Changing the Rules of SEO
Smartphones are everywhere. Roughly three-quarters of Americans now own smartphones, which is incredible considering less than half as many owned smartphones just six years ago, according to the Pew Research Center. Perhaps even more striking is that 92 percent of 18 to 29 year olds own smartphones. The dominance of mobile devices over traditional desktop…
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What is Responsive Web Design?
Have you asked yourself, “What is responsive web design?” Responsive web design is an approach whereby a designer creates a web page that “responds to” or resizes itself depending on the type of device it is being seen through. That could be an oversized desktop computer monitor, a laptop or devices with small screens such…
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5 Soft Skills Every Professional Should Cultivate
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a web developer, web designer, or a WordPress-specific professional – technical knowledge alone isn’t enough to succeed in the workplace. You can be a wizard behind the keyboard, but without the “soft” skills to back it up, you might find your career getting stuck in a spot where you’re not…
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5 Tips for Designing Mobile Friendly Forms
Contact forms are a key component of many websites. Although they’re usually simple in functionality, you still need to ensure they’re easy to use if you want to collect leads and stay in touch with your users. This isn’t usually a problem with desktop traffic, but using forms can get tricky if you’re on a…
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5 Best WordPress Sports Plugins
One of the most popular kinds of blogs to start using WordPress is a sports blog. Whether it’s a fan blog, a fantasy league website, or a news and commentary site, WP is a fantastic platform. Now, there are a ton of WordPress sports plugins out there, too, which can help you focus your site…
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Google’s mobile-first indexing: what does it mean for SEO?
Google has announced that mobile-first indexing is now rolling out, almost a year and a half since it originally unveiled plans to change the way it ranks mobile and desktop pages. During this time, the search giant has been experimenting and testing the implementation of a mobile-first search experience and now it’s ready to roll out the…
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How to Embed Your Twitch Stream on WordPress
If you’re a gamer, you definitely know Twitch.tv. If you’re not a gamer, there’s a good change you know it, too. Twitch has helped legitimize live streaming as an entertainment medium, instead of a niche service that only a handful of people partake in. Twitch may have started with video games, but that’s not all it…