The 4-day sale for the suite of 6 WordPress Plugins known as the WP Toolkit Suite ends tomorrow. These plugins enhance the ability of any WordPress site to effectively support a growing marketing business. If you don’t already have a solution for these needs, then this plugin suite is worth investigating. Keyword research, video, affiliate marketing, advertising, and more are solved by this suite of plugins. Take a look at what you are getting: Blog Niche Tools: 3 in 1 Niche Blogging Tool for Keyword Research, Free Images, and Importing Articles Blog Link Magic: Add Keyword Based Affiliate... [...]

Google loves speed. So does Bing. Slow sites=low rankings in search engines. WP Profiler speeds up your WordPress sites. This new WordPress plugin is the latest tool in the WP Toolkit. Not only do search engines hate slow pages. So do customers. Slow-loading pages send conversions dropping like a rock; they increase your bounce rates; and they cost you more in Pay-Per-Click costs. In fact, Kissmetrics research reports that if your site takes 3+ seconds to load you lose at least 50% of your traffic. If you are unfortunate enough to have 20 second page load times you lose 95%+ of your traffic. They... [...]

Quick Sprout’s Lars Lofgren has published a guide called ”How to Optimize WordPress’ to help you make the most from WordPress. He says, “Every second is precious on the internet. While fast websites increase your traffic, enhance the user experience, and help with your SEO, slow websites do the exact opposite. This is precisely why every website owner is always looking for ways to turbocharge their WordPress sites. You can increase conversions, lower bounce rates, and improve search rankings by applying a few actionable steps to optimize your WordPress website”. How... [...]

To provide a safe surfing experience to your visitors, you need to use the right tools. By integrating security plugins in your WordPress blog, you can enhance your blog security. Quick Sprout’s Lars Lofgren has shared a list of six useful WordPress security plugins for your blog. Lofgren says, “There are so many different security plugins available for your website. How can you know which one is the best WordPress security plugin? Rather than taking weeks to go through and research all of them, you can just review the ones that I’ve listed in this guide. I’ve identified the top... [...]

The Copyblogger team has published a guide to the best WordPress tools. The guide also covers information on WordPress hosting, themes, plugins, SEO, security, and more. Talking about the guide, the Copyblogger team says, “With this foundational expertise, Copyblogger knows WordPress as well as anyone. We know which hosts, themes, and plugins you should trust to power your website — and which ones you shouldn’t. This Buyer’s Guide answers questions like: What are the best options for WordPress hosting? Which WordPress themes can you trust? What kind of security tools will protect... [...]

WordPress has become a widely adopted environment and supports thousands of websites today. Your WordPress needs optimization to adjust with the changing search engine algorithms. Yoast contributor Michiel Heijmans  has shared a short guide on optimizing WordPress after using a page speed test. Heijmans says, “After running a page speed test, I am pretty sure that most website owners feel they should invest some time into optimizing that speed for their website. You will have a dozen recommendations. These recommendations differ from things you can do yourselves and some things that you... [...]

GoDaddy’s Maddy Osman has shared an useful article on connecting a WordPress blog to a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system. The article offers in-depth information with a step-by-step procedure to connect the two. Osman says, “Before initiating any new points of contact, members of your team can consult your CRM to look at past interactions and determine the appropriate next step. The alternative is manually copying/pasting contact form information sent from your WordPress website to your CRM. This manual process can be fraught with errors and inefficiencies! As a busy business... [...]

Speed is critical for website success. Users won’t put up with slow sites, and search engines downgrade them. Savvy webmasters use a cache to store a “predigested” version of the most important data on their site, so that data can be delivered with minimal processing when a visitor clicks on it. The data is processed in advance, so that less processing needed while the visitor is waiting for results. There are several well-known caches for WordPress sites, The two best-known are Total Cache and Super Cache. Viper Cache was just released and may prove the be the fastest cache ever.... [...]

The WordPress support team is hosting a free workshop on ‘The Developers Guide to Supporting Your Themes’. The online workshop will be held on Wednesday, August 23 at 11.00 am CDT. The WP support team says, “Some users approach WordPress.org plugins and themes with realistic expectations regarding the support they might receive on tickets. Others approach these free products as if they were all built with large teams of professional support behind them, which is rarely the case. This often results in frustration, one-star reviews, and ultimately a bad reputation for products... [...]

WP Engine has launched Content Performance, a Performance Intelligence solution for marketers and publishers. According to the company, this new tool will help marketers drive higher brand engagement with greater agility through WordPress and get better insights into their entire WordPress content. Key benefits of Content Performance Unlock New Google Analytics Insights Tailored for WordPress Strengthen Content Strategy with Relevant Data Maintain Your Content Production Workflow Engage Your Audience and Drive ROI. Jason Cohen, Founder & CTO, WP Engine, says, “Today, WordPress powers 28... [...]