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 and Affiliate Marketing Here’s what I cover in this post: What is dropshipping? What is affiliate marketing? The similarities between dropshipping and affiliate marketing Combining dropshipping and 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… Read more
If you’re threatened with, or facing, unemployment in the current pandemic, I can imagine how you must feel. But having something to focus on, a way out, will help. Affiliate Marketing is a huge and growing industry, and one of the best ways to make money online. In this article I go through:A checklist for… 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? Get a website… 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