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Supercharged Contact Forms with ClickBump 5.6

Posted on 26 April 2012

Contact Form 7 Support has been added to the latest 5.6 beta (as of beta 16). Release Notes Here. How to add Contact Form 7 to the C5: LeadGen Widget 1) Drag a “C5: LeadGen” widget over into the “Sidebar” placeholder 2) Remove the default text inside the widget and paste in your Contact 7 [...] Continue Reading

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99/100 Google Pagespeed Score with ClickBump 5.6

Posted on 18 April 2012

I’ve just updated the ClickBump Beta 5.6 to beta 8. The update brings the beta several steps closer to final release status. ClickBump owner’s with a current upgrades package can download the beta for free now. There’s tons of new stuff to talk about, but in this blog post, I want to highlight 2 pretty [...] Continue Reading

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Landing Page Templates for Lead Generation

Posted on 06 April 2012

In my last blog post, I introduced you to “LeadGen”, a shiny new landing page template for lead generation. The look and feel is inspired by the incredibly successful Groupon and Living Social and it brings this familiar look to WordPress in one, easy to implement package. With the proven success of these sites, I’m [...] Continue Reading

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Groupon Style Templates for Lead Generation

Posted on 02 April 2012

Daily deals sites are all the rage these days and by far the king of them all is Groupon. My wife loves it and uses it quite often. With that in mind, I’m about to release a Groupon inspired template package called “LeadGen” which is designed to allow you to quickly set up a lead [...] Continue Reading

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Announcing ClickBump 5.5 and the new “Canvas” layout manager

Posted on 28 February 2012

I’ve just released ClickBump version 5.5 to the member’s downloads page. This release has a ton of enhancements over the previous version. The most notable enhancement is the inclusion of the new “Canvas” layout manager. This is a special tab that appears when you are using the “Canvas” premium template skin (a free download to [...] Continue Reading

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How to optimize your sites for Google’s new “Page Layout Algorithm” update

Posted on 20 January 2012

A few days ago, I wrote a blog post about Google engineer Navneet Panda’s work to design a real time web page classiﬁer for text and image data and suggested that web page layout may indeed be a ranking factor under this new “visual search” technology. Right on cue, Google launched an algo update today called [...] Continue Reading

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6 key ingredients to Wow site visitors and please Panda

Posted on 14 January 2012

I’ve been doing quite a bit of research into the Google Panda update in order to determine how to maximize the “trust/value/relevant” signals that are common to the best ranked websites and minimize the “untrusted/low value/not relevant” bad signals that can cause the panda to take a bite out of your site rankings. There are several [...] Continue Reading

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SVM – The Secret Sauce inside Google’s Panda

Posted on 13 January 2012

In this article, I’d like to share a bit of what I’ve learned in preparation for a book I’m writing on building high ranking websites that Wow users. To set things up, lets take a look at a very enlightening conversation that Wired magazine had with two of the engineers responsible for Search quality at [...] Continue Reading

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ClickBump Slider Widget Options

Posted on 09 December 2011

I’ve just released version 5.3 of the ClickBump Theme Framework which enhances the slider widget over and above what you see in this video, scroll below to read about the new enhancements. In addition to the default “spine-based” navigation, you can now choose to hide the spines and have auto generated “arrow-based” navigation in which [...] Continue Reading

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New Template: “Canvas” for ClickBump 5 and BizLocal

Posted on 08 December 2011

Update: You can now View the Live Demo Site for the “Canvas” template. As an early Christmas gift, I’ve just released a new FREE template to ClickBump owners. This template is offered as a free download for current owners of ClickBump theme (Express, Engine and BizLocal owners can get it at the member’s dashboard beginning Friday [...] Continue Reading

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