WordPress currently powers an astounding 26% of the entire web. Although it may not seem like a large number, there are an estimated 4.75 billion web pages among thousands of website frameworks. These numbers add up. Why is WordPress so popular? Answer: it is best for the business that it represents. Here are a few reasons […]
Woothemes announced a few days ago that they would be joining forces with Automattic. Both companies contribute to WordPress and its community as a whole. I am excited for this transition for a number of reasons: We love WordPress. All of our sites are built on it. We use Woothemes Canvas as a responsive framework […]
If you have a business, you need a website. The obvious reasons: According to HubSpot, 78% of people using the internet research products online. This means, when clients want what you offer, they’ll be checking your website, first. A website is a foundational element of your brand that facilitates marketing, prospecting, exposure and business. If […]
A few days ago, I was able to to speak at the Las Vegas WordPress Meetup Group – WordPress, Lightning Fast Edition. I gave a WordPress Page Speed presentation, including topics on: Why we should focus on page speed in the first place What issues typically cause slow loading sites How users can fix slow […]
This is the final post of a two-part series. Managing multiple store locations for a local business from an SEO perspective can definitely be challenging. Before you even begin thinking about building local citations, you need to make sure that your site structure is ideal for search engines to crawl and index. This is part […]
This is a post for WordPress enthusiasts, bloggers, developers, or just the basic user. As you may already know, WordPress is an open source web platform and CMS (content management system) with a ton of built in features and the ability to add plugins and modules to enhance your web experience. WordPress wouldn’t be where […]
If you haven’t already heard, not too long ago Yoast released a Local SEO plugin for WordPress which works hand-in-hand with his WordPress SEO plugin. This is relevant to anyone who is optimizing a website for local search with one or several locations. This post is focused on setting up the plugin and it’s options […]