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Best Practices for WordPress Email Deliverability
Even though the default WordPress wp_mail function has been a staple for years, mail clients are not as accepting as they used to be. Now, messages from your WordPress website are starting to get marked as spam, dangerous (phishing), or even not being delivered at...
Why Do Changes Not Show on Page Refresh?
Sometimes an F5 refresh or clicking the refresh button in your browser will do the trick for you. However, what about changes that don't show up when you refresh? Most of the time, clearing your browser's cache or using a Shift + F5 refresh (or shift + click) will...
Change Site Location in Local, Flywheel's Local Lightning
Flywheel's newest build of Local, called Local Lightning has been out for a few months now. Since the build is separate from the previous Local by Flywheel build, you have to re-import your local websites to the newest app. After upgrading I decided to change site...
All About Website UX Testing and Why It's Important
User experience (UX) is the application of user information. A website with effective UX understands who their users are, what they need, what they value, and their capabilities of finding and understanding the information they seek. The actual business component of...
How to Transfer Domains – Namecheap to Google Domains
If you run a website, at some point you will need to transfer domains to another registrar. This is true no matter how advanced you are, whether you're a student, enthusiast, or business owner. In the past, this was a bothersome process with plenty of horror stories...
Should You Create One Big Website or Multiple Small Websites?
Whether you are in the early stages of your website or you have published a few already, you may find that your services, interests, and other information tends to occupy different categories. What should you do? You really have two main choices that can really...
Why You Should Ask for Reviews
Social proof has been a deciding factor in making purchases for decades. If you run a small business and it can be rated (hint: that's virtually anyone), you should embrace review management to get ahead of the curve. You can ask for reviews to be more proactive in...
Write a Better About Page
During your quest to build out your website, there's a page that's important but is usually overlooked. That would be the About page. Websites either don't have them or worse, have bad ones that don't even scratch the surface of what their website is about. In this...
Getting Started with Email Marketing Sequences
Email marketing is something that internet marketers say is critical and in most cases it is. If you don’t have a list or don’t have a plan, then you’ll be paying a lot of money for access to a SaaS account that is doing you no good. Join me for a quick beginner guide...
Online Business Stats for Beginners
In this post we'll go over some basic online business stats for beginners and wrap up with a mention to 2 other stats mid to advanced business care about. Basic Online Business Stats Let’s say you had a product or service you’re ready to sell and you decide to market...
Stuck on Writing Content? Here's What to Write About
Previously I wrote about how to collect and organize your content. This post will be something that I will build out based on ideas and what I experiment with. I present to you, the beginning stages of this post on what to write about. Make a point to sit down to...
Potential Traffic Sources to Focus On
Tasty traffic is something that may have always eluded you. Don't worry, I spent around 8 years creating websites for myself when I first started out. :p This post will be something that I will build out based on ideas and what I experiment with. I present to you, the...