MainWP Blog - 2020

Do you ever get an email like this? They are designed to get you to add a link to your website via an article you have already written. The strategy is not new. It has been used for years by certain SEO gurus. The thing is, most of my friends say they simply delete the emails or send them to spam. Nevertheless, this strategy is all about quantity. It’s a numbers game. That’s what they used to say in sales. Continue reading the post...

Sometimes you need a very simple plugin option to enable page caching on your child site. One of the best very basic page caching plugin options is the Simple Cache. Once you have installed and activated the plugin it will add a sub-menu item into settings in wp-admin. Settings > Simple Cache By default, the settings for Simple Cache will be very basic. If you enable the advanced mode. You will be able to exclude URLs that you want to Continue reading the post...

Recently I launched a new nurture funnel for my product, Website Copy Framework. I wanted to get potential buyers into my funnel and nurture them to buy the product. In this article, I am going to talk about the things I did and how I did them. At the end of the article, I provide you with a little checklist. Setting up my nurture funnel. To get started, you will need to have a specific product or service. For me, Continue reading the post...

ConvertKit is a solid email marketing and automation platform. The ConvertKit platform is very easy to integrate with WordPress. There are a number of plugins to be able to integrate with ConvertKit, also you can integrate with Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, and WooCommerce. ConvertKit does also integrate with Memberpress, aMember, Easy Digital Downloads, and Paid Memberships Pro. After you have created your account in ConvertKit you will be able to find your API credentials. The main ConvertKit plugin settings Continue reading the post...

Around the bend, we are headed for August. I’m not quite sure what the rest of 2020 will reveal. So many questions remain. One thing that remains is how we feel when we hear stories. Stories and music make life easier. So today’s setlist includes some oldies, one of which goes back to the early 1960s. We are talking about the future of WordPress, the re-emergence of Bing, and a handy tool to capture screenshots. The times they are a-changin.’ Continue reading the post...

WordPress 5.5 was released on the 11th of August. The new release of WordPress includes a number of new features. MainWP has a very solid extension to be able to save and activate code snippets on all connected sites. All of the new features in WordPress 5.5 have filters that can be used to disable those features if they are not needed. WordPress core now supports native lazy loading since most browsers now support native lazy loading. To be able Continue reading the post...

I remember getting an exclusive email from a copywriting influencer one day. Needless to say, my jaw was on the floor when I got the email and video from Tarzan Kay. Have you ever gotten something like that? She sent me an email with a personalized video. First of all, the fact that she knew my name was pretty cool. I mean, she has thousands of people on her email list. Why did she specify me? It was pretty cool. Continue reading the post...

BunnyCDN is one of the most feature-complete CDNs that can be used to improve your site’s load times. BunnyCDN has 41 data centers which means your site assets will be replicated and served from the edge server nearest to the site users’ location. BunnyCDN includes automatic image optimization and on the fly modifications and compression of static sites assets by using the Bunny Optimizer. In order to be able to use BunnyCDN on your sites, you will need to create Continue reading the post...

OptiMole is a very easy to use service with a straightforward to use WordPress plugin. Using the OptiMole plugin and service will make it very easy to improve the front-end load times of your child sites. In order to be able to use OptiMole, you will first need to install the plugin on your site. Once the plugin is installed and activated from Media it will add a new menu item. On the new settings page for OptiMole, you can Continue reading the post...

It’s always interesting when people talk about their content strategy in the content marketing industry. Everyone has their own variation. I tend to see things from 30K feet. In my way of thinking, there are certain types of content you need to have to make sure you don’t have gaps in your content calendar. Today I am going to talk about five types of content that tend to get overlooked when planning a businesses’ content. 1. Tell a story of Continue reading the post...