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Do you ever offer audits for prospects? In a recent article, we talked about three ways to use a website audit for your clients. There are different types of audits you can run for your clients or prospects and one of those types is an SEO audit. Today, we are going to talk about tools for those audits. As with any tool, these tools are a great starting point. To do a thorough SEO audit, there is a need for Continue reading the post...

Client projects are always interesting and rewarding to work on, but without setting very clear expectations with your client before the scope and specific deliverables for the project, projects can easily go awry. Clear communication from the start will help set what the client expects, the deliverables, and the dates set for each stage of a project. Brainleaf has a very clear post which covers how to come up with the scope of work (SOW) for your client project. Forbes Continue reading the post...

In the early days of my website design business, I decided to create a website audit to use to get people to sign up for my email newsletter. To be fair, it never really resulted in a lot of business. I think that was mostly because the wrong people received the audits. I think audits are a fantastic top of funnel service. You can use a website audit for enticing people to your email list; however, it may be best that Continue reading the post...

The majority of the time, people are in a Beta state of consciousness; we’re functional, we’re working, we’re constantly thinking and organizing and strategizing. There’s nothing wrong with this, but what we need to focus on is achieving an Alpha state. An Alpha state is when you meditate, visualize, relax, or simply close your eyes for two minutes. It’s during Alpha states when creativity is at its peak. You are less anxious if you take regular breaks to gain clarity. Continue reading the post...

What do stats about WordPress, using a blog checklist, creating a password policy, and building an affiliate website on WordPress have in common? They are all featured in today’s infographics recap. Each article includes an infographic which contains useful data for the user. So, let’s dive into our group of articles for our infographics recap. [Infographic] Mesmerizing WordPress Stats for 2019 With WordPress now launching commercials for WordPress.com and upgrading (depending on your perspective) the text editor user experience to Gutenberg, they Continue reading the post...

MainWP now has a very useful way to track changes made on both the MainWP Dashboard site, as well as tracking changes to connected child sites using Activity Log for MainWP extension. First, you will need to install the WP Activity Log plugin on all of the connected child sites, which is very easy to bulk install plugins on your MainWP Dashboard site. Next, you will need to install the Activity Log for MainWP extension on your MainWP Dashboard site. Continue reading the post...

When it comes to personas, it seems like we have a dozen word phrases to say what we mean. There is the marketing persona, the buyer persona, the customer persona, and a few other phrases. Some use the ideal client avatar or the ideal customer. Really, it gets cloudy often when it comes to the words we use for our target audience. For the sake of this article, I am going to use the term content marketing persona. This phrase Continue reading the post...

WordPress in its core has a function called XML-RPC, which a limited number of plugins still use like Jetpack. More plugins used to use it when the only method would have been to use the XML-RPC. Most plugins now use the WordPress REST API to connect to a site to pull data from it, by either read or write access. XML-RPC is still targeted for brute force attacks on WordPress sites. A number of CDNs like Cloudflare and Sucuri will Continue reading the post...

What tools do you use to ease frustration with a task that you hate to do? Thank goodness some of these tools exist! I work in Canva almost every day, but that app doesn’t have a feature to remove backgrounds in an image. Well today, we are going to take a look at an app that can remove backgrounds. We are also going to look at a web app that helps you layout your client personas. And finally, we are Continue reading the post...

You might think of a demonic garden gnome when you hear the word “nomophobia.” Rest assured, your little statue of Gnome Elvis has nothing to do with it. Nomophobia is the fear of being without your cellphone or a mobile device, and it is real. Psychology Today published a post a year ago which covered the reasons why using your cellphone or mobile device without health limits can cause life, health, and relationship issues. Set Rules and Create Boundaries Try Continue reading the post...