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Site BuildingBlog Bounce Rate: What Is It And How Do You Reduce Your Bounce Rate?The bounce rate can often be a matter of concern for a lot of site owners. Is your’s too high? What is a normal bounce rate? What can you do about it?
Traffic GrowthUltimate Guide To Blog Comments: Best Practices For Handling Comments On Your BlogDo blog comments positively affect your traffic? Are they worth having at all? And, if you do enable comments, what are the best practices?
Site BuildingThe Challenge Of Converting From A Page Builder To Gutenberg Blocks For Your Whole SiteI converted my site from a page builder (Elementor) to Gutenberg blocks. Here’s how it went, what it took, and the performance results.
Membership SitesHow I Built A Service Credit System For My Membership SiteThis tutorial will show you how I built a service credit system into my membership site, allowing members to purchase credits and then redeem those credits for additional services like coaching calls.
Site BuildingPage Builders Vs Gutenberg Blocks: Why I’m Switching Away From BuddyBoss To Kadence ThemeWhich is better: Page builders or Gutenberg blocks? After a lot of hesitation, I’ve made my conclusion. And here’s why I’m about to make a theme switch…
Membership SitesThe Ultimate Blueprint To Building Your Membership SiteThis guide will walk you through a membership site build, complete with all the plumbing that makes it work.
Site BuildingWhy I Stopped Using Google Analytics (And What I Use Instead)After removing the stranglehold of “big tech on my business and life, Google Analytics was one leftover I hadn’t yet replaced. But, now I have. Google Analytics is annoyingly complicated, and it isn’t the only game in town.
Membership SitesWhen Is The Right Time To Start A Membership Site?When is the right time in your online business journey to start a membership site? Here’s what you need to consider as you make this decision.
Site BuildingHow To Reduce WordPress Block Editor Bloat For A Faster EditorThe WordPress block editor was loading up a little slowly. Excess right-side panels and blocks I never used. Here’s how you can disable the right panels and blocks you’re not using in the block editor and streamline things for faster load time.
Site BuildingHow To Organize Your WordPress Media Library Into FoldersA simple plugin that will enable you to organize your media library into folders, just like your computer. Nice!
How To Separate Your Email From Your Web Hosting (For Best Web Hosting)Many high-performance web hosts (like Cloudways) don’t include email inbox hosting. Here’s how to separate your email from your hosting, so you can get the best hosting for both.
Awesome Support From ConvertKit. I Want To Acknowledge Them Publicly.I just want to tell you how responsive ConvertKit support is. Thanks, guys.
Sales & ConversionHow To Create Powerful Order Forms Simply (Without Needing A Shopping Cart)Sometimes a shopping cart is just overkill. Here’s how to simply create powerful order forms for your products, services, or charitable donations.
Consumer Alert: Tricky and Pushy Marketing In The WordPress EconomyThe marketing tactics being used in the Wordpress economy have evolved… and not all of it is good. Is the space being taken over by greed and too much centralization?
Site BuildingPremium WordPress Themes & Plugins For Free: What is a WordPress GPL Club? Are They Legit?Getting WordPress premium plugins and themes for free? Without paying for them? That’s the promise of the so-called ‘WordPress GPL Clubs’. The question is…. are they legal? Is it OK to use them? What are the pros and cons? And, just what is the GPL license?
Site Building4 Core Principles For Choosing Software and Plug-ins For Your Site22 years of experience in using different software and plug-ins for my business resulted in these 4 important lessons. Perhaps they will save you some time.
Marketing AutomationIs Your Website Annoying To Your Visitors?So many websites in 2022 are highly annoying to visit due to all the popups, cookie notices and more. Is your site one of them?
Sales & ConversionUsing Simply Schedule Appointments To Build A Powerful Scheduler Right Inside Wordpress (No Third Party Calendars!)Here’s how I use Simply Schedule Appointments to build a robust scheduler right on my Wordpress site (and integrate with FluentCRM).
Site BuildingHow To Easily Accept Crypto Payments On Your WooCommerce Site (Coinbase Commerce Versus Crypto.com)I decided to test out two popular options to accept crypto payments on WooCommerce – Coinbase Commerce and Crypto.com Pay. Here’s how it went…
How To Run Marketing Automations As A Video Is Watched In WordpressHere’s how to combine the marketing automation ability of your CRM with users watching videos on your website.
Site BuildingThrive Automator Is Out Of Beta. And Here’s Why That Matters…Thrive Automator is now out of beta. It is completely free. And, the way they’re doing it could be a game changer when it comes to automation within Wordpress.
Site BuildingElementor Cloud: Worth A Look? And Why Are They Launching This?Elementor Cloud is a new hosting offer from the Elementor folks. Is it worth a look? And… why did they even bother?
Membership SitesThrive Apprentice 4 Review: Thrive Suite Just Grew UpWith the launch of Thrive Apprentice 4.0, Thrive Suite just took a leap into greater maturity as a more robust membership site platform. Let’s take a look…
Site BuildingHow To Clean A Bloated WordPress Media Library5 rules for how to properly manage your Wordpress Media Library… and some tools I used to shrink a 5GB library by about 45%!