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6 Things to Look for in Your Next WordPress Theme

· WordPress

When you’re looking for a new design for your site, it’s easy to focus on just the way it looks. However, if you want it to be easier to accomplish your big goals for your blog or business, then it’s important to look beyond just the design of theme and focus on what features it has or bonus add ons that come with it. So, I’m breaking down 6 things you’ll want to look for when you’re getting ready to purchase your next WordPress theme.

It may just be November, but let’s face it – the new year is right around the corner. For most of us that means thinking about what we want to accomplish in 2019. Whether you’re thinking about starting your first blog or you just want to get a new design for your existing website, I’m willing to bet you’ll be thinking about your design in the near future.

When you’re looking for a new design for your site, it’s easy to focus on just the way it looks. However, if you want it to be easier to accomplish your big goals for your blog or business, then it’s important to look beyond just the design of theme and focus on what features it has or bonus add ons that come with it.

So today, I’m going to break down 6 things you’ll want to look for when you’re getting ready to purchase your next WordPress theme.

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4 Ways to Increase Your Site Speed and Decrease Your Bounce Rate

· blog, business, WordPress

Have you ever taken a look at your Bounce Rate in your analytics? Wait, let’s roll that back for a second. Do you know what a “bounce rate” is? In case you don’t (no judgement from us!), a bounce rate is defined as “the percentage of visitors to a particular website who navigate away from the site after viewing only one page.”

So let me ask you again: do you know what your Bounce Rate is? There could be a variety of reasons that you’d be getting traffic to your site that would leave after only viewing one page, but one of those reasons is that your site… might be loading… slowly.

We all know how frustrating it can be to land on a site and the site take 30 seconds to load. It doesn’t matter if you want to read the content or check out the product, if you get frustrated at the site loading slowly then you’ll likely move on. We want to help you avoid having a high bounce rate due to a slow site, so today we’re sharing four ways to avoid slowing down your site.

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How to Troubleshoot Your WordPress Site if It Breaks

· WordPress

How to Troubleshoot Your WordPress Site if It Breaks

Absolutely nothing is more terrifying than when you’re trucking along doing things on your website and boom! All of the sudden things are very broken, and you’re not really sure what you did.

Unfortunately, this is one of the downsides of having your site on WordPress, but it’s also why we offer website maintenance packages to our clients! We don’t want you to have to email us at 3AM on a Saturday because you broke your website Friday night and have no idea how to fix it.

However, we want to make sure you know how to troubleshoot some of the most common WordPress breaks that happen so you can feel empowered and confident to take care of things yourself if you happen to take your whole site down. So, let’s get into it!

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3 reasons you’d pick WordPress over Squarespace

· WordPress

In case you're trying to decide which platform you should be on so you can start your blog or make the move to WordPress this year, we're going to break down 4 reasons you'd pick WordPress over Squarespace today!

Ah, the age ol’ debate. Ever since Squarespace launched and started gaining popularity, bloggers have been making the decision of which platform to start with or which to move to. Even though we’re obviously WordPress lovers here, we’ve both done our fair share of playing around with Squarespace. We won’t lie.. it’s a great platform. However, just like WordPress, it’s not the right platform for every blogger or business owner.

In case you’re trying to decide which platform you should be on so you can start your blog or make the move to WordPress this year, we’re going to break down 4 reasons you’d pick WordPress over Squarespace today!

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