Upgrade Wedding Business What does six seconds mean to your wedding business?  Well, when it comes to the online world, it means everything. “When an engaged couple lands on your website, they will decide if they want to learn more about you or cross you off their list of maybes, in only SIX SECONDS.” So, you have six seconds to

Question: How can I  use other people’s photographs on my blog? “I’m not necessarily bothered about real weddings… it’s more pictures of the flowers, cakes, etc. that I’d like to use, but I’m really unsure about the rules. The more I look, the more confused I get. Some people say don’t do it, others say get permission beforehand, others say

Big Changes (and a Penguin!) Are Coming to Google’s Search Engine Results Every business owner wants to see their company name on Page 1 of Google, and if you’re following best practices, Google’s new “Penguin” wants to help you get there too.  Learn more about the history of Penguin updates here. If you only read one article on Search Engine

Eight years ago, our wedding business website was stolen. We stumbled on it by accident.  It had the same retro images and fonts and much of the same text, but it was someone else’s domain. It happened again two years ago.  Jeff was clicking around online and landed on a duplicate Book More Brides website in another country!  They’d stolen

So you’ve just started your wedding business and now you need a website. The problem is you don’t have the budget to hire a designer and you need something that looks nice and is fast and easy to use. Where can you turn? Here are 5 build-it-yourself options for professional-looking websites: 1) Strikingly Strikingly offers simple and beautiful mobile-friendly sites

By Brenda Cadman In early March 2014, Michelle discovered that her website had been hacked. She had not been properly maintaining her WordPress based website, it became out of date, vulnerable and consequently she was attacked by hackers. No problem, right? Just go to your web hosting provider and ask them to replace the hacked site with a clean, backed

I’m sure you’ve heard the saying, “you never get a second chance to make a first impression.”  But do you realize this also applies to your wedding business website? With engagement season in full swing, it’s important to be prepared for the couples that will be searching for your services online. Take a look at your website with fresh eyes

Crafting a great article is quite similar to writing any great content online, regardless if it’s used as an article, a website “about” page, or sales copy. Every aspect of both the writing and layout needs to be optimized to draw the reader in. If you can’t draw someone in with interesting content, you aren’t going to land the sale.

Building links back to your site is not something that most wedding businesses do, but it is something that they should be doing. Getting links that are posted on other sites that point back to your website is crucial to show up higher in Google search results and is just as important as good SEO content and keywords. There are

Have you ever wondered if your writing is good enough on your wedding business website? Well so does everyone else and the truth is that everyone makes one mistake or another. The trick is to catch the main mistakes that turn off brides while not becoming such a perfectionist that you kill the emotion of your content. BloggingTips.com has an