Blogging matters.
- To businesses.
- To entrepreneurs.
- To pretty much everyone trying to make money with their site.
Why?
3 Ways to Impress Your Website Guests
You only get one chance to make a good first impression.
Your website is your virtual calling card, and making it great is up to you.
Your success depends not only on your readership and your engagement level, but also on its appearance.
When deciding on your website’s appearance, you need to take the following three factors into consideration:
- the theme you use
- your home page
- which widgets you should display — and when and where
6 Tips for How to Improve Your Website Speed
Making your site as fast and as user-friendly as possible is the goal of many serious bloggers. Today I’m going to show you a few tools you can use to help you achieve this goal.
I’m also going to refer you to someone who can help you, because, if you are anything like me, you’d rather not do this techie stuff yourself.
Tip #1: Make Your Site Mobile-Friendly
Back in April 2015, Google made some changes to how websites will be ranked in the search engines. If your site is not mobile-friendly, chances are your rankings will drop. No one wants that!
Here’s a great post about making your site mobile-friendly.
For the last few months, I’ve been slowly and steadily making changes to the overall look and function of Wording Well. I even had some work done on my site during the first week of May 2015, from the 4th to the 6th.
I hired Vinay Kachhara (Harleena Singh’s husband) from Aha!NOW to help me do this.
After reading his post How to Increase Website Speed and Make Your Blog Load Faster, I asked if he was available for hire. He was. Read More
How to Survive Your First Year Blogging
There are millions who have started blogging, and there are still many reasons to continue to blog. The sad reality is that only a small percentage of bloggers succeed.
Why do they succeed? Because they don’t quit. No joke. Too many bloggers quit too soon, and they quit during the first year.
Bloggers quit because they don’t:
- Believe anyone cares and they give up too soon.
- Understand what it really takes to become a successful blogger.
- Make money right off the bat and get discouraged.
- Want to write and create quality content on a regular basis.
- Have a support group.
- Strategically network within their niche.
- Guest post on more established blogs.
Can you see yourself as a professional blogger?
The first 12-months of your blogging career is the most important. What you do in the first year can set you apart from those who fail. In essence, you are building the foundation that will either help your succeed or fail.
The Power of Client Testimonials
Trust. Credibility. Customer satisfaction.
These are three things you want your clients/customers to have.
One way you can achieve this is through testimonials, which can be very powerful (and will help you to achieve more sales)!
Article Overview
In this article, I’m going to cover everything you need to know about client testimonials, including
- why they are so important
- how to obtain them if you run an already established business
- how to obtain them if you run a new business
- the anatomy of a good testimonial
- the different types of testimonials that exist
- where you can use testimonials, and
- how to make the best of the testimonials you’ve been given.
As a bonus, I’ll also mention a few things about how others can help you earn money through referrals, which are different but yet at the same time similar to a testimonial, depending on how you look at them! 😉
NOTE: This topic became of particular interest to me recently, because I was doing some work on my website. I created a new SERVICES OFFERED page, which now divides the four services I offer into four different pages. I also removed the testimonials from each section and gave them their own page!
Why Testimonials are Important
Client testimonials act as social proof – proof that you are who you claim to be, proof that you are trustworthy and honest, and proof that you can deliver what your client/customer wants.
The following three quotes speak to the power of testimonials: Read More
