Most Homepages Look Good. Ours Actually Rank and Convert. Professional web design is a balancing act of aesthetics and authority. If your homepage is beautiful but invisible on Google, it’s a failed investment. Conversely, if it ranks #1 but has a 90% bounce rate, you’re treading water. At Slocum Studio, we build SEO-first homepages—designed to capture […]
We recently created a WordPress app for one of our clients. With this and our past experience in the field of WordPress app and SaaS development, we thought it would be fair to share our knowledge. There are quite a few lessons we learned while building WordPress apps. Here are nine of them.
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The clients who use our web services ask a commonly asked question: “Should I put images in my email campaign?” This question makes me think of one client who had a very low open rate on his email campaigns. His emails were just large blocks of text, no images, no graphics just plain text. Reminds
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is forever changing in the global space. We hope the 5 SEO tips and tools to elevate your local business will help you better organize your local marketing plans. The online space is crowded, and you must get much more right than wrong with your marketing efforts. You are writing super-strong
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Coming into WordPress can be a daunting thing. For many people, the thought is to grab a theme and get going, until you start to discover that you need more ease of use. If you do not code and want a good solution for your own business or for your clients, you can typically go
You may also be interested in this article: We Build on WordPress When it was initially conceived, WordPress was the place to go for creating blogs and writing articles. Time has passed. WordPress functionality has expanded, and it has become the best choice for business, newspaper, magazine, and other websites. With all of
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Back when this post was written (2013), YouTubers were required to make Google+ accounts. With this integration, comments came from the user’s Google+ accounts, often showing the user’s real names. Changes were made back in 2017 to using the Youtuber’s comments rather than Google+ user profiles. Update 1.11.2023 There are a few potential explanations
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“WordPress 3.7 JUST CAME OUT!” you say. It did, but attention has already shifted to the upcoming WordPress update – WordPress 3.8. And the attention is not necessarily positive. Where there was near unanimous applause for the technological improvements made to 3.7, there is certainly an “angels and demons” dynamic surrounding the release of WordPress
Staying organized on the web is not an easy task. Sites can be difficult enough to navigate, and it can be even harder to display a beautiful calendar within the default WordPress setup. This article will go over calendar plugins on the WordPress framework, what they mean for your business or blog, and which real