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How To Tell if My Website is Optimized (High Impact Requirements of Any Small Business Website)
Is your website performing? Are qualified leads finding your website? Once these leads find your website, are they taking the next step and contacting you? Can you do more to make sure you are driving traffic to a website that is set up correctly? High-Impact Website Requirements Here is a checklist to use to discover…
Read MoreWhat is the Difference Between IMAP and POP Email?
What is the difference between IMAP and POP? This applies to how you set up email applications on your devices (Mail, Outlook, etc) IMAP and POP are ways you can choose to set up your email application on all of your devices (phones, tablets, computers, etc) POP delivers and entire fresh copy of ALL NEW…
Read MoreWhy Should Your Business Post to Social Media? Two Big Reasons.
There are two big reasons your small business should post to social media: Stay Top of Mind and Drive Visitors to Your Website Stay Top of Mind with Billboards for your Business When your followers run into their friend at the grocery store or see their colleague at the water cooler at work and…
Read MoreWhat is the difference between a Registrar, Name Server, Host, WordPress, Theme and a Plugin?
What is a Registrar? Your Registrar is the company where your domain name is registered. When someone first “signed up” for this domain name, or “claimed” this domain name, the company where they did this is called the Registrar. Your domain name may be registered at this same Registrar or it may have been moved…
Read MoreWhat is a Registrar?
Your registrar is the company where you registered your domain name. This could be any hosting or registrar company such as GoDaddy, Network Solutions, Register.com, or many, many other companies. You can choose to register your domain name for any number of years. If you do not re-register your domain name, you…
Read MoreWhat is a Name Server?
Your Name Server is the company that tells all the computers and phones and devices on the Internet where to find your website or where to send an email so it arrives in your inbox, or other things that have to do where to find things that have to do with your domain name. Your…
Read MoreWhat is a Website Host?
Your host is the company you are paying to “host” the files of your website. You pay them on a monthly or yearly basis to keep the files and databases that make up your website on a server somewhere. Their servers need to be up and running in order for your website to be seen.…
Read MoreWhat is WordPress?
WordPress is the tool that you use to build your website. It is also called the “platform” your website is built on, but really it should be referred to as the “CMS” or the Content Mangement System you use to build your website. When you are choosing a CMS for your website, there…
Read MoreWhat is a Theme?
All WordPress websites are built on a theme. A theme can be one that you purchase, or one that is custom written by a developer. A theme is a “collection’ of files make your pages look different. These files are templates and styles. Themes can come with many options that you can select easily. For…
Read MoreWhat is a WordPress Plugin?
Plugins can be the fun part of WordPress. WordPress has some functionality out of the box, but not a ton. Do you want a calendar on your website? A special photo gallery that is easy to manage and display? Do you want to add an online form for people to fill out? Do you want…
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