WordPress taxonomies are built-in categorization tools for organizing WordPress posts. The two taxonomies that every WordPress site will come standard with are categories and tags. With categories, you can group your posts by topic or subject (e.g., website, SEO, and PPC for a marketing agency), and with tags, you can group posts by specific details…
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10 Insightful Domain Name Ideas for Your Business Website
When you’re starting a blog or opening a small business, building your website is an exciting step. But before you can launch a site, you’ll need to determine a domain name (e.g., www.yourdomain.com). As straightforward this sounds, it can be surprisingly difficult to find an available option. To help, we created a list of tips…
How to Quickly Restore a WordPress Backup With UpdraftPlus
Site crashes are a fairly common occurrence. However, if your site was built with WordPress and backed up, it’s easy to get it up and running again. To restore your business website, log in to your WordPress admin dashboard and go to “Settings” from the left-hand vertical menu. From there, select “UpdraftPlus” from the options…
The 5 Best WordPress Backup Plugins for Small Businesses
It takes time to build a great WordPress website. However, it can disappear with one server crash or hack. WordPress backup plugins enable you to restore your site easily. Even better, most of them are affordable, if not free. To help you quickly decide which of the dozens of backup plugins is right for you,…
How to Choose the Perfect WordPress Theme for Your Business
With thousands of themes available, your options can initially feel almost limitless. And while this can make choosing a WordPress theme fun, it can also make choosing the perfect theme difficult. If having an overload of options wasn’t enough, there’s a lot involved in picking out which is best for your business. From layouts and…
The 15 Best One-page Website Examples to Help You Design a Great Site
Less is more when it comes to design—web design included. As compelling as it is to load your site with lots of content across multiple web pages, the reality is that the fewer pages your site has, the more enticing it may actually be to your audience. In other words, that one-page website might more…
The 6 Best Email Hosting Services for Small Businesses
Businesses depend on email, so you need dependable email. The best email hosting services not only provide a way to connect a custom domain but are reliable, affordable, and feature-rich. With so many email hosting providers on the market find the right one isn’t always easy, so we reviewed dozens of the top options, to…
The Beginner’s Guide to Meta Tags for SEO
Meta tags are considered one of the foundations of search engine optimization (or SEO). And if you want your website to have a shot at ranking organically in search, you’re going to need to use meta tags. As techy as the term “meta tag” may sound, it’s surprisingly simple. In short, meta tags are short…
What Is a Permalink: Best Practices & How to Edit
As technical as a permalink may sound, it is simply a fancy-sounding word for a web address (or URL). It’s a combination of the two words “permanent” and “link” as it’s intended to be an unchanging web address. Permalinks are comprised of two parts, the domain (www.businessname.com) and the slug (e.g., /contact/). When creating WordPress…
7 Best Domain Name Generators for Business Websites
Domain name generators are helpful tools you can use for free—whether you’re a blogger or a business owner—to discover available domain names for your website based on keywords. If you’ve tried to find a relevant domain, chances are you’ve found just how difficult it can be. Thanks to a domain name generator, you can save…
WordPress vs Drupal: Which Is Right for Your Business
Deciding between WordPress and Drupal isn’t easy. After all, they’re very similar open-source content management systems (CMS) that can be used to create highly custom websites. However, they’re not without unique strengths and weaknesses. Although neither CMS is considered to be the most beginner-friendly on the market, WordPress is generally more user-friendly, while Drupal is…
.Com vs .Net: Quickly Find Out Which Is Right for Your Business Website
If finding an available domain name wasn’t difficult enough, once you find one, you’ll have to decide which domain name extension you want. For many, it will come down to .com vs .net. Chances are, you will want to go with the .com as it represents a commercial entity and is the most recognizable domain…