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Wordpress · April 27, 2021

8 Questions Your Web Developer Should Have Asked

8 Questions Your Web Developer Should Have Asked But Didnt

BUT DIDN'T I'm constantly amazed when I hear complaints from website owners that their site isn't helping them reach their goals. I'm amazed not because they have a bad website, but because this conversation never happened. By this conversation, I am referring to a series of questions that …

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Technology, Wordpress · April 6, 2021

Slack, Chat or Discord?

slack on mac

TL;DR: I'm looking at the pros and cons for using Slack, a Chat app, and Discord for client or visitor interaction and would love your help. HELP! When I started this site way back when I was focused on all forms of communication and actively listening. I have always maintained that as a …

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Wordpress · March 30, 2021

Unsplash Bought by Getty Images

As you might know, I've always warned you about using images that are not your own. You also might remember that I suggested using images from Unsplash.com if you couldn't use your own images as it was a safe place to find safe and legal images to use. I remember talking about it on one of our …

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Wordpress · March 9, 2021

20 Dirty Secrets that Web Designers don’t want you to know

We have a new FREE report and we're pretty excited about it! It's an insiders guide to all the dirty little secrets web designers don't want you to know. No, this isn't some kind of mamby pamby, light weight, cut and paste job. This thing has some series meat to it. It's 22 pages long and 2 MB …

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Wordpress · February 17, 2021

WordPress powers 40% of the internet!

WordPress powers 40% of the internet

There was some big "WordPress" news last week when W3Techs announced that WordPress now powers over 40% of the top 10 million websites! WordPress plays in a league of its own. It's not only the usage numbers, also the ecosystem around WordPress is absolutely remarkable. There are more than 58,000 …

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2MT, Wordpress · August 18, 2020

An Introduction to Lead Capture

The best way to start with lead capture is to start at the end

Good News! The shortest podcast you will ever hear is back! 2 Minute Tuesdays is back! I want to start with an introduction to the complicated and often times confusing world of Lead Capture - and guess what? 2 minutes is just scratching the surface. Well, to be clear, this 2 minutes is going …

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Technology, Wordpress · November 19, 2019

How To Stop “Form Spammers” (better)

A few weeks ago I showed you how to stop the spammers from swamping you with bogus emails from your comment and IDX system. You can read more about that: "How to Reduce SPAM". I also dabbled a bit for your website forms and discussed the idea of Akismet, the Honeypot, and CAPTCHA. One of the …

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2MT, SEO, Wordpress · November 12, 2019

Local SEO Ep4: Consistency

To earn better "Local SEO" we know that Google really likes consistency. Consistency comes in 2 parts: would be the 'A' in your N.A.P. would be in your posting schedule. Here's how to be consistent in both and improve your ranking for local keywords in your area. CONSISTENCY IN …

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2MT, SEO, Wordpress · November 5, 2019

Local SEO Ep3: Your Footer

So, I was walking down the street the other day... I saw a local business the other day and looked them up online. Clarification: I'm literally standing in front of the business and could NOT find them online. Once I got home I did some deeper digging and found out that they do have a website …

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2MT, SEO, Wordpress · October 29, 2019

Local SEO Ep2: Your Phone Number

The Clickable Phone Number. We've come to expect it. We're hungry and on our phone, we look up our favorite local pizza place, we see a number and if we click it, we'll be ordering that Large Canadian Bacon, Pineapple with Extra Cheese in moments.  Right? So when that doesn't happen, when we …

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Social Media, Technology, Wordpress · October 21, 2019

AREWECONNECTED.com is 11 Years Old!

AreWeConnected is 11

On this date way back in 2008 I needed a new website. I was transitioning from a job in a related industry and needed a URL that better reflected what I was now into. Mortgage > Title > Social Media/WordPress (with a detour along the way to do a bunch of Facebook Development stuff). How or …

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Gutenberg, Wordpress · October 16, 2019

How To Make Your LINKs Open In A New Tab

Links are vital to a proper website

In this post I'm going to show you how to create links in your Gutenberg (block editor) WordPress posts and pages that open a new tab in the viewer's browser. Before we get into it, did you listen to WHY and WHEN you want to do this? Don't worry, that link will open in a new window for you! …

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