Adding Live Chat Support to Your WordPress Website: Pros and Cons

No matter how amazingly equipped your site is to entice, educate, or entertain your visitors, you may still find that it’s not always enough. You do everything you can to maintain consistency and offer a high-quality experience, but sometimes you just want someone to give you the secret to converting more visitors to paying customers […] View original post at …

How to Give Away a Free Ebook (and Get More Subscribers) with WordPress

If you like ebooks, you can get a boatload of them by signing up for newsletters. That’s because offering a free ebook download as an incentive for signing up for a mailing list is a time-tested strategy to (hopefully) boost mailing list opt-in rates. There’s a good chance you either use this strategy or have […] View original post at …

14 Sneaky Online Tools to Help You Spy on Your Site’s Visitors

You’re in business to cater to your audience, right? In person. Over the phone. Via email. And even passively through your website. Whether they’re prospective customers just checking out your site, loyal subscribers who have yet to purchase anything, or actual paying customers, it doesn’t matter. Every point of contact you have with them counts. […] View original post at …

Ultimate Guide to WordPress Migrations and SEO: Pre-Migration Prep

There are many reasons you might need to migrate a WordPress site – a change of domain name or perhaps moving a blog from a subdomain to a subdirectory. Whatever the reason, it is important to factor in SEO when considering a WordPress migration. But why, exactly, do you need to keep SEO in mind? There are many signals that can affect organic …

Pricing Your Services: A How-To Guide for WordPress Developers

Pricing is tricky, to say the least. And no doubt you’ve had a similar conversation to this one I had recently with a massively popular (and profitable) blog I wanted to write for: Client: “I’m sorry to break this to you — but you’re nowhere near the $XX rate.” Me: “Thanks very much for your feedback. Much appreciated 🙂 Cheers” …

This is How WPMU DEV Makes Life Easier for WordPress Developers

Let’s face it. WordPress development is not for the faint of heart. Wages aren’t as strong as they are for other types of developers, competition is fierce, and you’re expected to work miracles in minutes — after all, it’s just a simple WordPress website, right? One way to address this conundrum is to simplify your development process by pre-making routine …