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What’s the Best WordPress Gallery Plugin?
What’s the Best WordPress Gallery Plugin? Beautiful imagery can make or break a website. To start with, everyone performs the eye test when they enter a site for the first time. I know I do at least. If a site looks a little bit sketchy, I’m out of there in seconds. Beyond the first impression, images are great for […]
Continue readingBest WordPress Giveaway Plugin
What’s the Best WordPress Giveaway Plugin? With a quick Google search, it’s easy to find examples of companies that have grown their email lists by 3000%+ or gained 5,000+ subscribers with giveaways. In fact, you can even find a case study by Gael where he got 1,626 new subscribers & over 3,000 new social followers by […]
Continue readingBest WordPress Form Plugins
What’s the Best WordPress Form Plugin? There are lots of ways to make conversions on your website. It might be selling a product on an ecommerce store, capturing an email address or having someone click through to buy on an affiliate marketing site. Many people are simply looking for an enquiry through a phone call, email or […]
Continue readingBest Landing Page Plugins
What’s the Best Landing Page Plugin? How much effort do you put into getting traffic? If you’re anything like me, you have spent hundreds hours building links to get traffic from organic search, you’ve created Facebook ads, Instagram ads and maybe even adwords. You might even be slowly and surely building an email list with exactly the […]
Continue readingWhat are the Best WordPress Backup Plugins?
What Are the Best WordPress Backup Plugins? What’s the point in backing up your site? Well, things go wrong sometimes. Things like: Hackers Fires or flooding at hosts Updates break stuff hashtag User errorBacking up your site can minimize the damage. Instead of losing everything, backing up your site allows you to restore the site to a saved […]
Continue readingWhat Are the Best Social Share Plugins for WordPress?
What Are the Best Social Share Plugins for WordPress? Without traffic, you can’t generate revenue from your website. It’s as simple as that. For Authority Hacker, we our biggest focus is generating traffic from organic search through Google. The thing is, there are so many other ways to get traffic. One such way is through social […]
Continue readingWhat’s the Best CSS Plugin for WordPress?
What’s the Best CSS Plugin for WordPress? When someone lands on your website, they’ll likely give it a quick eye test to see if they can trust it. In fact, a study from the Nielsen/ Norman Group seems to confirm, at least tangentially, that users immediately screen a site to decide whether it’s trustworthy or not. […]
Continue readingWhat’s the Best Image Compression Plugins for WordPress?
What’s the Best Image Compression Plugins for WordPress? A slow site is bad. I think we all agree on that. Research shows a 1 second delay in load time leads to: 11% fewer page views 16% decrease in customer satisfaction 7% loss in conversionsNot good! In fact, there are loads (pun intended) of studies showing how load […]
Continue readingWhat’s the Best Security Plugin for WordPress?
What’s the Best Security Plugin for WordPress? TLDR : If you don’t have time and just want our best WP Security Plugin recommendations click here. Recently, Uber paid a ransom of $100k to hackers who stole data from 57 million accounts so they would delete the data and keep their mouths shut. While it’s easy to sit and […]
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#92 – 2017: The Year in Review
Subscribe to Authority Hacker! What You Will Learn hashtag How we realized our blog content wasn’t working and what we did to change it. hashtag Why we care more about writing honest reviews than generating affiliate revenue. hashtag What happens when you allow problems to grow as the company grows. hashtag Why we chose to […]
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