MainWP Blog - Todd Jones

I have launched a lot of websites in my career. When I worked for a local marketing agency, I was usually the one who drew the assignment to launch a site. Just being honest, I welcomed the opportunity to be part of a team in this part of the job. I never had to launch a website by myself. One person pointed the domains, one person moved the site from one server to the other, I executed the post-launch checklist, Continue reading the post...

November is here. We have passed the spooky time and headed towards the end of the year. It’s time to think about next year. Most likely, we should have been thinking about that last month. But, life happens, you know. One of the things I find interesting is changes to SEO in 2019. Predicting trends is always an exercise is an educated guess based on directions. So, what can we find regarding trends in 2019 with SEO? I’m going to discuss Continue reading the post...

What is your favorite scary movie? How did it make you feel to watch the movie? I remember when the movie The Blair Witch Project came out. It was creepy. There were no zombies in the movie, but an urban legend about a witch. Word is, the filming concluded on Halloween. I remember as I watched to movie thinking to myself, anyone who has ever camped out hears noises, yet they were freaking out. There are lots of noises in Continue reading the post...

Can you believe it? Tomorrow is the first day of November (or today, depending on where you live). Now, I know you are suffering from a major candy buzz after taking your, ahem, parent tax from your ghosts and goblins. Pay attention, the end of the year is almost here! You have two months to make 2018 the best year for your business. What do you have left to do? I run a hyperlocal website and Monday night I sat down Continue reading the post...

I do a lot of reading online. You can probably understand that as I do a lot of writing. I mean, when you write, you need inspiration as well as solid resources. Now, there are the usual ways of looking for content that I employ. There is this gigantic search engine called Google. It does work really well, but it returns millions of results. How to sort through that mess? Another way I find content is through friends and connections. Continue reading the post...

My first job was in high school. I did what a lot of guys in my small town did, I went to work at the local grocery store. Make no mistake, it was a customer service job. In fact, my I was called a courtesy clerk. We did almost anything but especially carrying groceries to the car. I learned a lot about the importance of taking care of customers in that job. It was a great training ground for a Continue reading the post...

Over recent years, one of the things I have enjoyed the most is hearing the stories of entrepreneurs. Their stories aren’t much different than you and I. They start a journey, and they find mentors along the way. On their journey, they are called to solve a problem and through the pain of adversity, they are forged in the fire. Finally, after the labor and the journey, they solve that problem and begin helping others solve that problem. These stories Continue reading the post...

The other day, my mom looked for and found a simple recipe for chicken. She had some chicken breasts in the freezer and did not have some of the various ingredients she normally uses. She had to find some inspiration and a different idea. So, she went to the best place she could think of to find something different and easy. Google. That’s right, my mom searched for a new chicken recipe on Google. Now, she has a dozen or Continue reading the post...

For a long time now, I’ve building, managing and launching WordPress websites. A big part of having a website these days is the use of social media. Maybe you have heard of Facebook. Anyway, over the past few years, we have seen the need for open graph tags. These tags help the social media networks, especially Facebook, know what they should display when someone shares your article or web page. The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich Continue reading the post...

Brian Dean did it with Backlinko. Grown and Convert built a content marketing consultancy using this strategy. Even CoSchedule built their business on the use of a long-form content strategy. What do these three companies have in common? They have grown. Exponentially. Dean explains the success of long content in an article on his SEO ranking study, “After removing outliers from our data (pages that contained fewer than 51 words and more than 9999 words), we discovered that pages with Continue reading the post...