Imagify image compression for WordPress, reviewed
Imagify is an image compression service created by the folks behind the popular WP Rocket caching plugin for WordPress. Although it’s geared towards WordPress users (with the Imagify plugin), it can be used through the web interface or integrated with any content management system via their API. Plans & Pricing…
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Embed live chat into your website for free with Crisp
Crisp is a live chat platform that allows your customers to message you from any page of your website. It’s designed specifically for startups and small businesses, and is one of the few live chat services that offers a full-featured free tier.
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GeneratePress Review — A fantastic WordPress theme
I’ve built around 50 websites with WordPress over the last decade, using dozens of of different themes. GeneratePress is unequivocally the easiest to use WordPress theme I’ve encountered in the decade I’ve been using WordPress. Created by Canadian developer Tom Usborne, GeneratePress has been downloaded half a million times and…
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Add your call-to-action to any webpage with Snip.ly
Snip.ly is a link shortener that lets you add your own call-to-action to almost any website. It works by adding a small overlay to the bottom left corner of the page, on which you can place your logo, text, and a link. Snip.ly effectively allows you to use curated content…
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What is Google’s Sandbox and how does it affect SEO?
The Google Sandbox is an assumed feature of Google’s search algorithm that deflates the rank of new websites. Think of it as a filter that keeps new websites from appearing in search results until they’ve built some credibility. How long will my site stay sandboxed? Only Google knows for sure….
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Which social network should I use to promote my brand?
Each of the major social networking services appeal to broadly different audiences. The most important first step of social media marketing is to identify which social network holds the most strategic benefit for your business. Marketing on social networks that don’t attract the kind of user your product or service…
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5 important tools in our content marketing toolbox
In this post, we take a look at five of the web services we use to consistently produce content that attracts strong traffic both organically and through social media. Evernote + Evernote Web Clipper The Evernote Web Clipper makes it really easy to save web pages, articles, and photos you…
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Instantly create web-friendly images with Bzzt! Image Editor
Web pages with large and uncompressed image files are going to load more slowly than pages with correctly-sized and properly-optimized images. While there’s hundreds of apps available to resize and compress image files, few (if any) are easier to use than Bzzt! Image Editor. Bzzt! Image Editor is a small…
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