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7 Overlooked Social Media Networks Your Brand Should Leverage

With Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram leading the social media world, you may believe these are the only social media networks your brand can use. However, this is far from the truth. Yes, these networks may be the most popular—Facebook surpassed 2 billion users on June 30, 2017 and YouTube is slowly but surely climbing…

7 Reasons Every Student Should Start a Website

From career boosting to money making, a site of your own comes with the kind of benefits that make a big difference while you’re studying or looking for a job. 1. Think of it as your career ‘game face’ Not only do most recruiters use the web to screen job applicants, more than a third have…

7 Reasons No One Opens Your Email Newsletters (And How To Change It)

The majority of your subscribers won’t open your emails.That’s the harsh truth about email marketing. You have to actually run a real email marketing campaign to realize this. If you have 1,000 email subscribers, only around 20% of those subscribers will open your emails. For most marketers and industries, the numbers are even lower than…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…