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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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2MT, Gutenberg, Wordpress · October 15, 2019

WHY You Want Your Links To Open In A New Window

This Part ONE of a TWO Part Series. We've come to expect that if you mention another site on your posts or pages, that we won't have to search Google for that site, you'll have a link we can click on right there in your post. It's just a common internet courtesy. But sending people to an …

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2MT, Wordpress · October 8, 2019

What Pages Should Your New Website Have?

What Pages Should Your New Website Have

For this week's 2MT, we'll explore the pages that you must have, talk about the pages that you don't need and more importantly - the lead capture that will help your new site reach your goals. While I had this post in draft mode for a while I honestly just had a new client ask that very same …

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Wordpress · October 2, 2019

Battling For Your Attention

battling for your attention

I've said it before and it bears repeating. We're in a constant battle for attention. One of the reasons we blog in the first place is to get our message out. The problem today is that the attention span of the reader has become so very short and new information is bombarding them from all angles …

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Technology, Wordpress · September 16, 2019

How to Reduce SPAM

If you have a form, any form at all, you're going to get some SPAM. How to Identify, and Eliminate Virtually All SPAM from your Website Let's start with a few simple rules that we can all agree on RULE #1:The simpler the form, the greater the response.The harder the form, the less …

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