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- Reporting
- September 2, 2026
Why Client Reporting Is Critical for Client Retention Want to automate your reporting? Use this link to try DashThis. You can do incredible work for a client and still lose the account. You can increase their website traffic, improve their Google visibility,...
- Artificial Intelligence, SEO
- September 2, 2026
AI is changing how people discover businesses, products, services, and information online. But I don’t believe that means we need to throw out everything we know about SEO and replace it with a new collection of acronyms. In many ways, AI search...
- Free Plugins, Video Tutorial
- August 29, 2026
Building a restaurant website in Elementor is usually pretty straightforward — until you get to the menu. A simple menu with an item name, description, and price isn’t difficult. But real restaurant menus aren’t always that simple. You start dealing with different...
- Contact Forms, Spam, Video Tutorial
- August 29, 2026
*Note – this video is a bit old, plugins might look a little different, but the information is the same. A WordPress contact form can appear to work perfectly while the most important part is quietly failing: the notification email never reaches...
- Video Tutorial, Website Optimization
- August 29, 2026
Video can make a website look incredible, but it can also become one of the largest files a visitor has to download. This becomes especially important when you’re using autoplaying hero videos, background videos, animated graphics, event footage, or other video-heavy website...
- Email Marketing, Video Tutorial
- August 29, 2026
A bigger email list isn’t always a better email list. Clean your lists, save on subscription fees, and show higher open rates! New to EmailOctopus? I switched from Mailchimp and pay half what I used to. Use my referral link to save $15...
- Contact Forms, Video Tutorial
- August 29, 2026
Spam is one of the most frustrating problems with WordPress contact forms, especially when the same person or bot keeps submitting the same message over and over again. Standard spam protection can stop a lot of automated submissions, but sometimes a persistent...
- Video Tutorial, WordPress Fixing
- August 10, 2026
What happens when you still have a complete WordPress website sitting on your hosting account, but you can no longer access it through the original domain? This can happen for several reasons. A client may have pointed their domain to a new...
- Video Tutorial, WordPress Fixing
- July 22, 2026
Few things are more stressful than updating a WordPress plugin and suddenly seeing a “There has been a critical error on this website” message. Whether it is JetEngine, WooCommerce, Elementor, or another plugin, a fatal error can lock you out of your...