Category: Website

Does My Business Need a Website? 12 Reasons Why & 5 Reason Why Not

If your business is reasonably successful, you may come up with many reasons why an effective website isn’t all that relevant for you. Sure, you understand the need to have some web presence, but you might not believe that an effective website is going to make that big of a difference for your particular business

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Best Shopify Themes for Small Businesses

Shopify’s e-commerce platform helps businesses to hosts and run their online stores. It helps you to organize your online store’s layout through the use of templates or themes. With these Shopify themes, you can create beautiful and mobile-friendly online stores with the option to build from scratch or customize to your own liking. The result

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WordPress Dominates Market Share Of Top 10,000 Websites

New research highlights content management system ranking by market share with WordPress taking the lead with an incredibly impressive share. When you mention brands that dominate the market, the likes of Google, Facebook and Amazon are likely to spring to mind. Likewise, when it comes to CSM market share, it won’t surprise you to know

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5 Predictions For the Future of Customer Experience

Customer experience used to be something that big businesses talked about — and did relatively little about. Designing, automating and scaling it required an intimidating tech stack, and the businesses equipped with such tech stacks had little incentive to approach CX differently. Either they were already large and successful, or they were well-funded startups following

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WordPress 5.8 Released With Nearly 300 New Features & Fixes

WordPress 5.8 is rolling out right now and is available to all publishers. The new release is named after the innovative jazz musician, Art Tatum. It’s a fitting name for this new version of WordPress because it’s full of brand new features that makes it easier for publishers to innovate and express themselves creatively. This

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When Revamping a Site Can Negatively Impact Rankings

In an After Hours Webmaster Hangout, Google’s John Mueller answered multiple questions about what kinds of changes may impact rankings and what kinds of changes will not. Along the way Mueller explains different scenarios that are harmless and also the kinds of changes that may impact how Google sees the website, including seeing it as

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How to Protect a WordPress Site from Hackers

All sites on the web are under constant attack – whether it’s a phpBB forum or a WordPress site – all sites are being probed by hackers. It’s not unusual for a hacker to scan thousands of pages or try to login in hundreds of times a day. And that’s just one hacker. Sites are

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How to Build a WordPress Site in 24 Hours

WordPress is a fantastic platform for building websites on the fly with little to no development time required to get up and running. In addition, WordPress has fantastic customizability ranging from being able to fully customize your theme, to finding plug-ins that have the functionality to do just about anything you want. The list of

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Wix and Google Announce GMB Integration

Wix and Google announced an expanded partnership that integrates Google My Business (GMB) directly within Wix. Businesses can now access GMB data, customer interactions and manage their profile directly from Wix. The value proposition in a service like Wix is that they take handle the technical side of an online presence. Things like search engine

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Best WordPress Alternatives for your Small Business Website

Over the years WordPress has been the quintessential website builder and Content Management System (CMS) allowing users to download and install its software for free. Thanks to its easy-to-use tools, you can easily add new pages, blog posts, E-commerce store, images and much more without any HTML editing software or knowledge required. Besides the ease

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7 Reasons You Should Turn Your Website Into an App

With constantly evolving technology, the dynamics of doing business have changed considerably. Studies have shown that 80% of shoppers use a smartphone to look up store, product, and service information online. The number of smartphone users is set to increase to 3.8 billion worldwide in 2021. This means that more and more users prefer using

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WordPress.com Now Offers Website Development

The commercial arm of WordPress (WordPress.com) announced they were entering the website building business. The announcement was generally not well received by the WordPress web development community. But many softened their response and saw opportunity as more information became available. People think of WordPress as the company that develops the open source content management system

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