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landing page mistakes

5 Common Landing Page Mistakes

Here are 5 common landing page mistakes that people make all the time. Website owners want sales leads and want new subscribers, but they make some common errors, which are easy to fix. A landing page is a page online that has two, specific characteristics: it has a form; and it exists ONLY to capture…
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How to Build an Ecommerce Website Strategy

You need an ecommerce website strategy, before you build your ecommerce website. There’s far more to building your ecommerce website than uploading WordPress and Woocommerce and adding products. First, you need a clear business strategy, which is a little different to an ecommerce website strategy. Once you have a business strategy, you can start to…
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Website Strategy vs Business Strategy

Website Strategy vs Business Strategy (and why they are so similar). Website strategy and business strategy are extremely closely tied to one another – you can’t have one without the other. Forbes knew what they were talking about when they described how to create a successful business strategy here. We build websites, so we get…
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Why Websites Get Hacked

Do you know why websites get hacked? People often believe it’s personal, but this is very rarely the case. Following my article a few weeks ago that discussed why you should bother to update WordPress, I received several replies from people who didn’t believe their websites could be targets. Often these websites aren’t being updated,…
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WordPress Maintenance Mode

WordPress Maintenance Mode is an excellent way for you to make changes to your website that you don’t want people to see. It displays a splash page that’s visible while you edit your website. There’s a really great plugin for that – WP Maintenance Mode. As an added bonus – it’s quick and cheap! It’s…
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WordPress Tip: Copy Text into NotePad First

Want a killer WordPress tip? When writing articles in another program that isn’t WordPress (like Word, OneNote, etc.) ALWAYS copy text into NotePad first, before copying it into your WordPress post or page. This process strips out unwanted code (that you can’t see). This unwanted code can make your WordPress post or page settings act…
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