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In this short, three minute video, I reveal the best SEO Tip ever! It's not super complicated. You just need to have your site verified with Google Search Console first. More on that here - https://datadriven.design/?s=google+search+console - Then, you need to log into Google with the account you verified your site with, and make a search for the keyword you want to optimize your site for.  Scroll down under the ads, and you'll see what I see in this video: data on how your site is performing for this query, and links to click that take you to Google's tips on how to improve your site for SEO, related to the phrase you searched for.  Guys, this is what paid tools that aren't affiliated with Google do. Instead, use Google's free version. I'm a big fan of listening to what Google says to do to improve your site's SEO.  That's why I think this short hack is the best SEO tip ever, especially for small businesses with limited resources.

If you're looking to make your WordPress website more professional by giving your visitors the ability to make one-time or recurring payments via Stripe instead of PayPal, WP Simple Pay is a great solution for you.  This covers how to acquire, install and configure WP Simple Pay to make your WordPress website have the ability to sell memberships, take donations and more.

Are you having issues with your WordPress website URLs redirecting to the wrong pages? I may have a simple solution for you.  I've used a plug-in called Redirection for almost 10 years now when I build WordPress sites. Its main purpose is to implement 301 redirects when redesigning websites. This is so that when an old website has a URL like mywebsite.com/contact-us and we change the new website's page to mywebsite.com/contact, we can make the old URL go to the right place.  We perform at least 10-150 redirects on every site we redesign and relaunch. In short, we're making sure that there is no lost traffic due to broken links during the relaunch.  Redirection also has an awesome new-ish feature that automatically creates redirects for you if you ever change the URL slug on a page or post. This is awesome, because it's making sure you don't break your own links.  But recently I got myself into a situation where I accidentally created a duplicate page, renamed my duplicate page the same as a page I had already created. I then deleted the earlier page and changed the slug of the newer one to the URL slug of the older one.  This created a redirect loop that wouldn't allow me to view the page I wanted until I figured out how to delete the redirect that Redirection created for me automatically when this happened.  I spent about 15-20 minutes scratching my head until I finally figured it out. This video explains. I hope it helps!

Sometimes the data leads you to put an exit intent pop-up on your website to collect email addresses from visits as they intend to leave your site.  But what should you put on it? I prefer to allow the data to drive that as well. This video shows how you can use a plug-in called Bloom by Elegant Themes to create variants of your pop-up to increase your conversion rate.

There is now an easy, turnkey way to literally put your WordPress website's content on Alexa and Google Assistant. This opens up your website to a whole new rapidly growing audience of more than 500 million people using voice assistants on a daily basis to get information.  You want your website to rank high on Google, so why wouldn't you want it to also rank high on Alexa and Google Assistant for voice search?  Also, don't you want to offer better accessibility options for your visually impaired audience? This is one great way to do so.  The Voice Designer WordPress Plug-in, available at https://thevoicedesigner.com​ makes it super easy to voice-activate your WordPress Website for Alexa and Google Assistant.  This video shows you exactly how to build an Alexa Skill and Google Action from the backend of your WordPress website, test it on your device, then deploy it live to promote your business.

So you've uploaded a new featured image and published your awesome blog post, but there's one small problem, right?  The beautiful featured image you've loaded in isn't showing on your blog page. In fact, some other, older image you posted as a featured image in a different blog post is showing in it's place!  What's up with that?  This is not random. There is a simple explanation for it. As I show in this video, you have named both images the same thing, resulting in an identical image URL in the media gallery.   Your WordPress website is simply confused and is defaulting to the old one.  1. Fix it easily by simply renaming your original image to something different, preferably SEO friendly, and re-upload it in the featured image slot.  2. Delete the first one with the duplicate name. Keeping unnecessary, unused images in your media gallery will slow down your site speed load time, and over time, could negatively affect SEO.  For more free WordPress tips, visit https://datadriven.design​ or https://thewordpressshow.com​.  To do business with me, email me directly at paul@datadriven.design   Thanks and have a great day!

There are many ways to customize the search functionality on your WordPress website. There are plug-ins that help you control what's shown and what's not shown in the results. There are also easy changes you can make to your functions.php files.  But most of these methods focus on global changes, like what categories or custom post types to include or exclude from your search results. Or what the global settings of the search results pages should say or look like.  The Search Exclude plug-in, however, gives users an easy way to - on a page-by-page or post-by-post basis - decide which pages or posts you want to exclude from search results.

Oh no! I just made a HUGE mistake on one of my WordPress pages! My content is gone!  I know there's something called Revisions, but after the update to Gutenberg (anything after WP 5.0), it's NOT THERE ANYMORE!  Help! What do I do?????  No worries.

How do I export my all of the files from my WordPress website? That's a question you may be asking yourself if you're redesigning your site into a new WordPress theme/install.  Export Media Gallery is a great plug-in that I recommend using. This video shows you the ins and outs and considerations, as well as the step-by-step process.

Are you using BuddyPress (a free version of BuddyBoss, basically) to build a social media type community site using WordPress? If so, you're pretty smart.  But you may be getting discouraged on your "Activity Feed" page by the actually community activity feed not loading.  Are you just stuck on a screen that says "Loading Community Updates?"  But you are seeing them on the Member Profile Page Activity Tab!  What gives?  This shows you how to fix it and keep those community updates flowing on the Activity Feed page.