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How to Add Pages in WordPress
You’ve finally taken the plunge, selected a domain name, purchased a WordPress optimized web hosting package, and are ready to start building your site. Congratulations! It’s going to be awesome. Now that you’ve celebrated your new blog or business venture, you may be wondering what to do next and how to create a WordPress website.…
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5 Ways to Use Google Analytics Data to Optimize Your WordPress Website
Since 2005, Google Analytics has provided marketers and website owners with in-depth data about a website’s traffic, users, and content. Using this tool, marketing professionals can make informed decisions with regards to their content, website structure, and promotional strategies. When your website isn’t ranking in the search results or you’re not seeing the results you…
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How to Keep Your Domain Information Private
In today’s day and age, terms like “identity theft”, “hack”, and “spam” can get thrown around in routine conversation about your website. There’s an increased sense of the need for better security, and overall, more privacy. Well we agree! Privacy is something that we take seriously, and in particular Domain Privacy. What’s a WHOIS? WHOIS,…
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How to Prepare Your Business for Growth
Businesses grow over time and should have a website that can scale with them. There will be more clients, products, sales, and more potential opportunities to expand business reach. But how can you prepare your business to grow with you online? To start, you can prepare your business for times of growth by developing a…
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How (and Why) to Split Test Your WordPress Website
More and more brands are discovering the value of hard data. Whether you’re looking to optimize a landing page, headlines for blog posts, calls to action (CTAs) or any other element of your WordPress site, split testing offers the data you need to improve your decision making and reach your goals. If you’re looking for…
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6 Best WordPress Plugins to Monetize Your Blog
Are you wondering how to monetize your growing blog? Building a loyal audience is just the first step. Starting your own business and monetizing your blog will give you the freedom to live your life on your own terms. But knowing just how to get started can be a challenge. No matter how you decide…
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17 Web Design Resources You Need to Know
The Internet and social media have proven that humans are very visual creatures. How a website looks can be just as important as the content it holds. If a website looks slapped together, it makes your business look rushed, unreliable and untrustworthy. And since humans are so visual, it’s possible that your design will turn…
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Bluehost Celebrates 14 Years
Today is our birthday and we are celebrating for the next two days. In this 14th year of our existence, we decided to take a walk down memory lane. Plus, we have a giveaway that you can learn about, here and here! Our History In the early 2000’s, all web hosting companies did pretty much the…
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17 Free Online Tools for Creating Share-Worthy Graphics
Admit it. The books you liked most as a kid were the ones with lots of pictures. Turns out, web users share similar preferences: 40 percent of people respond better to visual information than purely pain text. And it’s not just about personal preference, it’s science. About 90 percent of information transmitted to the brain…
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Link Building 101: Why You Should Do It (and How to Get Started)
Most small business owners understand that it’s important to use search engine optimization (SEO) strategies to rank high — ideally No. 1 — on the search pages. You know that you can’t just build a website and then sit back and wait for new customers to come knocking on your virtual door, but sometimes it’s…