[…]System or CMS is simply a tool for managing all the content within a website. Popular CMSs like WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal give organizations more control of their website, including the ability to customize it, or even alter its code. What’s a CMS Got to Do With SEO? Search Engine Optimization or SEO is a measure of how well-placed your website’s links are within search engine page results. Search engines don’t automatically rank your links and they don’t rank everyone’s links the same. In fact, search engines like Google use around 400 different factors to decide how authoritative a link is and […]
[…]slowly: Your server is not fast enough You’re not using the latest version of your CMS (e.g., WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, etc.) You’ve not optimized images in your website You’ve not optimized your website for mobile There are easy fixes for all of these issues. The cost of not addressing these issues could be great, especially if your website is instrumental in helping you attract and retain customers. Web Design Mistake #2: Inaccessible Content When potential customers visit your website, they want to be able to engage with the content that you’ve made available to them. Even if your webpage loads […]
While maintaining a website has become easier, thanks to the awesome CMS WordPress, ensuring that said website functions smoothly at all times is equally important and this is where choosing a reliable website hosting provider becomes crucial. A website host plays an important role when it comes to website security, speed and download time. It also makes your task of incorporating new technological features seamless. Thus, as one of the major investments in the online face of your business, you need to ensure that the website hosting company that you have chosen is able to provide you with all the […]
[…]websites. You’ve heard of CMSs even if you didn’t know the technical term for them: WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla! are all content management systems. The main advantage of building a website in a CMS rather than from scratch is that CMSs dramatically decrease the time and expertise required for maintaining websites. If you build a website from scratch or pay someone to do so, you will have no way of updating it unless you are fully versed in coding languages such as HTML and CSS. Worse, unless you are updating the code within your website, it will begin to fall behind […]
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[…]effectively balances usability, effective design, and SEO. Check out our guide to launching a WordPress website: Complete Guide to Launching a WordPress Website Tip #3 for Setting up a Small Business Website: Design Finally, you’ll need someone to help you brand your website if you’re not a web designer. Research has shown that you have about 10-20 seconds to keep someone on your website. If you don’t have an engaging, visually-appealing website that is easy to use, consumers will go elsewhere. In particular, you need a designer to help you with: Logo: You need a modern-looking, memorable logo that is optimized for […]
[…]to install all available updates in order to prevent hack attempts. You should also eliminate any WordPress plugins and themes you’re not using in order to optimize your WordPress database. Step 2: Monitor your site’s page speed and fix loading issues in order to enhance the experience website visitors have when they arrive at your site. There’s nothing worse than arriving at an organization’s website to find broken images, outdated links, and slow-loading pages. You should also delete all spam comments and clear out redundant media files to improve the site’s speed. Step 3: Set up automatic backups so that if your website should […]