Your Site’s Contact Form: 4 Tips for Getting More Customers with It

contact formsI use contact forms on all of our sites and encourage our clients to do so as well. There are several for WordPress, and in our Savvy WordPress videos, I show our members how to use them to enhance their site and bring in more customers.

A couple of months back a well-known social media expert blogged about how, by adding a few more fields to his website’s contact form, it resulted in more people using them. I’m glad to see more people valuing this simple tool and learning how to use it to get more business.keep reading

404 Error – Page Not Found (#@!*#)

crazy cat 404 error

We’ve all been there. You click on a link and bam, you end up on a page with the dreaded 404 error – Page Not Found! Why does this happen? Well, let’s look at when you have changed or redesigned your site or blog in WordPress. Realize, these new pages have new url’s. For example: [...]

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Your Post Title: Make It Reader- and SEO-Friendly

Alt Title for Post in WordPress

The title of a post, or “Title tags,” matter when it comes to the search engines. But so many times we focus on keywords in the title. And when we do that, the title is boring. It just doesn’t grab the reader’s attention.

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The Four-Letter Word Many WordPress Users Fear: CODE

WordPress Code: A Four Letter Word

Just yesterday I was reading a post about plugins—how many you should use, etc. One of the points was that numbers didn’t matter, it was more about quality. (I agree.) But one comment in the thread, which I will get to momentarily,  spurred me to write this post. If you visit WordPress.org, you will find [...]

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RSS Feeds on Your Blog – A Goldmine!

RSS feeds are a goldmine

When I create a website or blog, it’s second nature to me to add an RSS feed, as with most people. But often I do get the question asked why should I do this? What ends up happening is some short education for the client. What is a RSS feed? Who uses them? Why should [...]

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