In the last week I have been using Blog2Social and it has worked great. I used to use another plugin but it had too many problems and was complex to setup. Now this plugin is a dream to use. What I like the most about it is the great support. The other plugin I used had poor support and they were slow to respond. I had some confusion when I first installed this and they responded the first work day. I sent it in on Sunday and I got a response on Monday. I was so happy. It will connect easily to any social network you probably want to use.…

The best image optimization plugin is ShortPixel. I know because I used them all and ShortPixel compresses the best. Using ShortPixel has increased my website speed in a dramatic way. GTMetrix shows that it was slow before I optimized my images and faster afterwords. For the low cost it just isn’t worth it to manually process images anymore. It can also easily make WebP versions so there is a great deal of flexibility. Why am I sharing this now? Last week I uploaded several games to test out. It turns out that those games have images that weren’t optimized. ShortPixel saw the new images and offered to optimize them. I…

Popup Maker is a free to use popup plugin that works great. I used at at my company website, and it did everything I needed and more. One of the things that I wanted to accomplish was to style it in a certain way that complimented the rest of the page. I was able to do that easily. I didn’t have any problems using it and it wasn’t overwhelming with options. You can set it to work via a trigger and you can set the time that the trigger applies to the cookie that is set. As you know cookies are beginning to become blocked on browsers, so this will…

Many companies are choosing to use SaaS vendors. These are vendors who have websites and services that you can sign up for, and then do things like Gmail or Box. How can you best evaluate new SaaS vendors? First you have to do lots of research. This is not only the features of course, but also and more importantly the customer service. Many times companies may have good features but poor customer service. This means that when there is a problem you really are on your own, and that is a difficult place to support. For example, Google Gmail is famous for not having great support. Yet because it is…

As a website manager I have had to help people who made mistakes in their content strategy. They linked to third-party content that thought was interesting but unfortunately they don’t control that content. What happened is that over time, that content was removed and they ended up with dead links. Don’t make this mistake! The client who did this I had advised to spend more time and write original content. Not only did they get higher views, they now have what is called “evergreen content.” This means that he is no longer writing things that are time limited. For example, when you write posts based on current events then sometimes…