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How to maintain a WordPress website

By Tim Priebe | July 10, 2019

We’ve been creating WordPress websites since 1909. Wait, I’m pretty sure my notes are wrong and we actually started in 2009. That seems a lot more likely. We’ve launched hundreds of websites. Some of our clients now manage their own websites, while others have us manage their websites for them. And while we’ve always offered hands on training with our clients and had training videos available as well, we’ve never put together a guide on managing your own WordPress website.

How to prevent link rot

By Tim Priebe | June 26, 2019

Link rot. Sounds gross, right? Really, it’s just another name for a broken link. But it’s something you need to be aware of if you’re managing a website on an ongoing basis.

How to tell if your website is frustrating to use

By Cole Battles | May 22, 2019

Have you ever visited a website and couldn’t find what you were looking for? Maybe you just needed a phone number or address, but you couldn’t even locate the contact page. Whatever the issue was, the website you visited had low-usability. How annoying!

Creating an effective home page

By Tim Priebe | April 10, 2019

Sure, sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest can be a lot of fun. But are you neglecting your own website? What about your home page? Whether you like it or not, many people will judge the professionalism of your organization based on the professionalism of your website! While Google and blogging for SEO mean that people may find your website through a number of ways, for many small and medium businesses, the home page continues to be one of the most visited pages on their site!

Our best articles on digital marketing from 2018

By Leann Priebe | January 23, 2019

Happy new year, everyone! Well, technically we’re almost a month into 2019 now. But it’s not too late to reflect on 2018 to know what to work on in 2019.

Do you need a website if you have a Facebook Page?

By Chloé Gee | December 26, 2018

We all have times when we’re on a tight budget. And let’s face it, most people are going to visit Facebook way more often than they’ll visit your website. After all, Facebook has 2.2 billion monthly active users.

A modern church website with WordPress

By Chloé Gee | October 24, 2018

We love helping nonprofits. One type of nonprofit we end up helping a lot—partially because of the discounts we have available—is churches.

Three things we need before designing your website

By Chloé Gee | August 22, 2018

At T&S Online Marketing, we love designing websites. In fact, you could say it’s our speciality considering that when our agency started back in 2003, it was known as T&S Web Design. T&S has certainly expanded its offerings over the years to areas like content creation, SEO, online video, and more. But creating attractive, functional websites is still one of our favorite things to do. Creating a website is an exciting process, but it can be overwhelming! Fortunately…

Is it time to redesign your website?

By Leann Priebe | July 11, 2018

If you’re like most other businesses and nonprofits that aren’t brand new, you probably already have a website. We’ve been helping clients with websites since 2003, and it’s fairly rare now to see an established organization that doesn’t have a website.

How keywords in SEO have changed

By Tim Priebe | May 16, 2018

Have you heard of keywords and key phrases as it relates to being found on search engines like Google? Keywords and key phrases are what search engine users enter into sites like Google, that businesses and nonprofits want to show up for. Well, a lot has changed over the years, and they don’t play the same role they used to.