• How To Use The Donations Block To Build Your Finances

    How To Use The Donations Block To Build Your Finances

    Although most people associate donations with nonprofits or charities, anyone can accept a donation for almost anything.  If you run a website of any kind, here’s the good news: You can accept donations on your website to support yourself and your online business. If you use WordPress, it’s a simple matter of adding a donate

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  • Optimizing for Universal Search: What You Need to Know

    Optimizing for Universal Search: What You Need to Know

    When marketers began to focus on search engine optimization (SEO), search results were simple. However, search engine result pages (SERPs) have continued to evolve to serve up more dynamic and relevant content.  What does this mean for you? There are more ways to get your content featured at the top of SERPs, which increases traffic

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  • Why You Need a Business Profile on Social Media

    Why You Need a Business Profile on Social Media

    For many business owners, social media is seen as a Pandora’s box of additional responsibilities and expenses that would take a toll on their already thinly-stretched resources.  As with any form of marketing, you get what you put in when it comes to social media. But the returns are a lot higher than you might

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  • Best Practices for Compressing & Resizing Images

    Best Practices for Compressing & Resizing Images

    Resize, compress, upload. It’s all about reducing your image file size as much as possible without sacrificing quality. Here’s how in a few simple steps. Table of Contents Step 1: Pick the right file format Step 2: Know your size & compression targets Step 3: Choose your compression/resize tool type Step 4: Narrow it down

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  • What Are Pointer Records and Why You Should Set Them Up for Your Website

    What Are Pointer Records and Why You Should Set Them Up for Your Website

    The internet lets anyone be whoever they want to be. This fact gets exploited by hackers and spammers, which causes problems. That’s why there are obstacles put in place to ensure identification.  When your company sends out an email blast, some servers might reject the message if it can’t verify the website or IP address

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  • The 2020 Bluehost Holiday Gift Guide

    The 2020 Bluehost Holiday Gift Guide

    The holiday season is upon us and it’s time to start shopping! With eCommerce and digital storefronts becoming a bigger part of our online experiences, it can be overwhelming trying to decide where you should shop and what to choose. Whether you’re looking to improve your health and wellness, change up your beauty routine, or

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  • WordPress 5.5.3: Security Measures, Formatting Clean Up, and Glitch Resolution

    WordPress 5.5.3: Security Measures, Formatting Clean Up, and Glitch Resolution

    As the holiday season ramps up, WordPress is busy at work to deliver WordPress 5.6 before the end of the year.  In the meantime, WordPress has released new versions of its platform, and Gutenberg updates. The maintenance release, 5.5.1, from last month, was followed up with WordPress 5.5.2 and 5.5.3, which fixes security concerns and

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  • How To Use LinkedIn For Business Promotion + LinkedIn Marketing Strategies

    How To Use LinkedIn For Business Promotion + LinkedIn Marketing Strategies

    Setting up a booth at a trade show is a wonderful way to promote your company. You meet new leads or potential partners, you network with folks in your industry, and you get to showcase your company and its achievements.  This is the same opportunity offered by LinkedIn.  LinkedIn is not just for job seekers

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  • Gutenberg News: What’s New in Gutenberg 9.3.0 | November 2020

    Gutenberg News: What’s New in Gutenberg 9.3.0 | November 2020

    The Gutenberg team released Gutenberg version 9.3.0 on Nov. 4, 2020. With minor enhancements and the introduction of significant experiments, the latest version of Gutenberg is a clear step towards the future of full website editing. The Gutenberg project is moving through phase two of its four-phase roadmap to revolutionize WordPress. Phase one was complete

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  • Google’s Journalist Studio Introduces a Suite of Applications for Journalists, and Here’s How It Can Help Your Business Too

    Google’s Journalist Studio Introduces a Suite of Applications for Journalists, and Here’s How It Can Help Your Business Too

    A well-reported news story has the power to change the world. Investigative journalists spend time and resources thoroughly researching a topic, and then they turn it into compelling content for their readers. It’s a challenging feat to achieve. When investigating a story, journalists amass a mountain of data in interviews, reports, images, documents, and audio. 

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