The Best Hosting for WordPress Hosting websites can be a pretty harrowing experience, especially when it’s for clients. Pretty much every site I’m involved with is built on WordPress, which means a constantly updating core, themes, and a handful of plugins from various third-party developers. WordPress is wonderful in many ways, but the anxiety about …
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We love working with local businesses here at Top Draw. Online marketing can be very rewarding for local companies and we’re always interested in new tools for the job. We’re big fans of Yoast, and have been using their flagship SEO for WordPress Plugin for a good while now, both on client sites and our own site, to …
Got this error and immediately Googled it to find out WTF? You’re out of space on your hard disk (or you’ve reached your host’s quota). That’s it! Remove some old backups, delete some files or up the ante on your hosting plan!
I’ve tried just about everything under the sun in my search for the best quality themes for WordPress. The options are rather overwhelming, but frankly that’s a good thing! The competition has helped the WordPress ecosystem thrive, and these days you can find a vast assortment of WordPress themes that are equally powerful as they …
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So your website is all set up to generate you tons of leads… Rad! Unfortunately, your contact form submissions are getting stuck in your spam folder (not rad). I use Gravity Forms on all my sites, but this issue can arise from any form plugin because WordPress uses PHP to send mail. The best solution …
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I’ve built and managed tons of websites and marketing campaigns for small/medium businesses. Over the years, I’ve amassed a whole whack of tools and resources to help get the job done. I’m always sharing these tools with clients, friends, and colleagues so I decided to put together a list of the ones I like the best and …
Hey, I’m Nick I do a bunch of digital marketing stuff. I work for Whitespark as Director of Product, and I’m involved in various other projects and ventures. I’m based in Edmonton/Amiskwaciwâskahikan Twitter Linkedin Here are some things you might like How To Track Your Local SEO & SEM (Published on Moz) A guide to …
People always ask for SEO advice on reddit.com/r/seo. Something in the vein of: Sorry guys, total newb here. I’m the IT guy at a small company and my boss told me to make us #1 on Google. Any help would be appreciated. Usually this is met with similarly well thought out answers from the peanut …
Responsive web design is something you’ll be hearing about (and seeing) lots this year. Google says it’s the recommended way to build websites from here on out, and Mashable has a detailed post on why 2013 is “the year of responsive web design”. I find myself answering these questions more and more as awareness increases, …
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Here are my rough notes from the first day at MozCon. Forgive me for the abrupt nature of the content, I just wrote down the things I found notable, useful or actionable from my own perspective, so this isn’t intended as an overview of the whole day. Thanks a ton to all the excellent presenters, …