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12 years ago, when I first got into marketing online, getting regular search traffic from Google was reliable, as long as you played by their rules. I played by their rules because, at the time, their rules made a lot of sense and did result in a good user experience. And I got traffic. In… Read more

I’ve been a member at Wealthy Affiliate for a year now, and I’m often asked which plan offers the best value – the Starter (free) Plan or the Premium Plan. The answer actually depends on a number of things:Your current level of Internet Marketing knowledge and experienceThe amount of money you have available to invest… Read more

Dropshipping vs Affiliate Marketing I was searching online this week for the differences between dropshipping and affiliate marketing, really just to see how other people were defining them. But 90% of the articles I found turned into a comparison of the two that favoured dropshipping as a better, more profitable business model. So I decided… Read more

Affiliate Marketing is a huge and growing industry. It is also one of the best ways to get started with an online business if you do not have any products of your own to sell. Quite simply, Affiliate Marketing is about selling someone else’s products for a commission. In this article I go through what… Read more

Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is a Google project that is designed to make web pages load more quickly for visitors on mobile devices. Sounds like a good idea, right? Fast loading pages (especially on mobile) is definitely a good idea! But do you have to use AMP to create them? No. (More on that later)… Read more

There are currently more than 55,000 plugins available in the WordPress repository and many thousands more that are ‘Premium’ (paid for) and don’t appear in the repository. With such a huge number available it is inevitable that there will be big variations in the quality of their coding. And badly coded plugins will slow down… Read more

The more the web goes mobile, the more important becomes the speed at which your website pages load. Speed is definitely king – at least on the web. Adding a caching plugin to WordPress and using a CDN are both good ways to speed up your page load times, but they will deliver only limited… Read more

I saw a question today where someone asked if paying for a premium WordPress theme would improve the level of traffic to their website. The answer is ‘No’. There is absolutely no correlation between paying for a theme and the impact it has on the level of SEO optimisation of your website. The theme you… Read more

Errors that arise after updating something You updated a plugin, or a theme, or WordPress itself and suddenly something goes wrong – sound familiar? “…Why can’t I update my posts anymore..?” “…Why am I getting these warning messages..?” “…Why has the layout on the front of my site changed..?” The WordPress eco-system WordPress is often… Read more

If you’re thinking about operating any kind of business online you need to have your own website. No ‘ifs’, ‘buts’ or ‘maybes’. But how can you do that without needing to know all sorts of technical stuff and without paying for a web designer, hosting fees and all the other associated costs? Key facts: Product… Read more

All websites I build have been set up on HTTPS, by default, for some years now. HTTPS is an absolute necessity if you’re running a shop on your site but, even without a shop, you will benefit from greater security, better performance and higher search engine rankings – Google has been giving better rankings to… Read more

CleanTalk Anti-Spam protects you from human as well as bot spammers on contact forms as well as posts I have reviewed the WordPress plugin here, but to see the range of platforms, forums and other implementations that CleanTalk Anti-Spam protects click here and scroll to the ‘Anti Spam Plugins’ section about half way down the… Read more

If you’re not careful you can burn through money very quickly with a Google Ads campaign. Here’s one way I was losing money and how I corrected it. Google Ads automated ads extensions I was looking at my site statistics recently and was irritated to see that Google Ads paid clicks were going to a… Read more

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is one of those subjects in which you can get lost in all sorts of rabbit holes of technical detail, if that’s what you want. But for most, that level of detail is too much. So this article covers the checklist and process I use to develop search-engine-friendly posts on WordPress… Read more

WordPress 5.0, along with the Gutenberg editor (now officially called the Block Editor), was released in early December 2018. The block editor on its own represents a major change for WordPress (it’s the first change to the editor for 10 years, and it’s a big one) but its implications are much wider: The block editor… Read more

How does Jaaxy compare to the Google Keyword Planner? To beat your competition you need to figure higher in the search results than they do – and a powerful, fast, accurate keyword research tool, that finds and details the pages you would be competing with for your chosen keyword, is an indispensable part of your… Read more

Updated – 15th August, 2019 I originally wrote this article at the end of November, 2018. Since then the stock markets in the US and Europe have been volatile but, over the past 10 days, the trend has been very firmly down. There are a number of factors:The level of debt that I described back… Read more

If you’ve been running a website for any length of time you’ve probably had occasion to become dissatisfied with your hosting provider and thought about moving to another. That’s happened to me 3 times in the past 10 years. In the first case it was because the hosting provider I used did not support SFTP… Read more

Summary (full details below): Product name:WPML WordPress Multilingual Plugin What it does:Enables you to create a professional multilingual WordPress website. Best quality translations, it brings probably the highest level of efficiency to managing multilingual WordPress websites – full details below Rating:4.90/5.00 Where to buy:WPML Price:From USD29.00, with other options DisclosurePlease assume any links on this… Read more

I saw an interesting question today while browsing the queries for which this site has been returned in the search results: What is the difference between WordPress pages, WordPress posts and WordPress categories? Being able to use these three elements in the way they are intended can make a big difference to how your site… Read more

Summary (full details below): Product name:Aweber Automated Email Marketing What it does:It is an automated email marketing system, collecting subscribers’ email addresses and sending out emails as defined by you. It offers extensive training and cutting-edge technologies, ensures you’re in compliance with current legislation and protects you in the event of problems. Full details below… Read more

The short answer is ‘Yes, it can do’, but not necessarily always for the worse. It could improve your SEO or it could make it worse, and the effect it has depends on a few things: How you set up your META tags (SEO title, SEO description, index/noindex tags, etc) How good the coding of… Read more

Since I’ve been an Independent Trivita Business Owner I’ve occasionally been surprised at the reaction I’ve got from people when they’ve found out. They’ve ranged from me being told I’m promoting something illegal, to being called an Avon Lady promoting an unverified product. At first it came as quite a shock, especially as those reactions… Read more

If I woke up in the middle of the night 6 weeks ago, needing to go to the bathroom, I could barely walk. The pain in my feet was excruciating. Getting up in the morning was the same: in both cases, just in order to get out of the bedroom I had to lean my… Read more

This is a guest post from Emma J Fox, of Pitstop Media. Most, if not all, SEO companies today include social media marketing in their SEO packages for clients. There’s no doubt that social media is already closely intertwined with Internet marketing and website optimisation. Social media sites have become the playing field where businesses… Read more

This is a guest post from Tim Wilson at HostPapa. Web hosting is essential for anyone who wants to build their own website, and there are many providers that offer hosting services. Some provide a quality service – others, not so much. And, unfortunately, some companies blatantly cheat or mislead customers. This being the case… Read more

I wrote about how to create a dual language static HTML website earlier. This time I’ll go through the process if you’re building your site on WordPress. Multi-Lingual Websites on WordPress With WordPress you have 3 options for creating a dual- or multi-language website: 1. First option – two languages on the same page The… Read more

Living as an ex-pat in Hong Kong I’m often asked to create websites in dual languages (Chinese and English). Creating dual language functionality if you’re building a static HTML website is very straightforward, and that is what is covered in this article. Creating dual language functionality on WordPress websites follows a different process, and I’ve… Read more

This is a guest post by Matt Carter of Matts Marketing Blog. In business, whether in the real world or the digital world, success requires a certain amount of adaptability when game-changing events occur. This was amply displayed recently in the digital world by the earth shattering effects of Google’s Panda update in the SEO… Read more