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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Create stunning product images with the Smartmockups app
Smartmockups is a desktop app that makes it incredibly easy to create high quality mockups to showcase design projects. The app allows you to take any image or web page and quickly impose it on one of 300+ ready-made templates, offering everything from mobile phones, desktops, and business cards. Creating…
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5 Common Beginner Webmaster Mistakes
Every successful website owner has made many painful and embarrassing mistakes along the path to success. In this post, we look at five of the most common mistakes we see from beginner webmasters and some things you can do to avoid them.
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