We regularly hear from business owners who need help with their WordPress sites. They often don’t understand why they can’t make basic changes themselves. Their sites weren’t built using WordPress’s normal editing tools, so they may be unable to change an image, update a navigation menu or edit part of a page without calling the … Continue reading “Why You Can’t Edit Your Own WordPress Site and Who Decided That for You”
Your website is getting traffic, but the phone is not ringing and people are not filling out your contact form. The first reaction is often to try to get more traffic. Sometimes that makes sense, but before spending more on SEO or advertising, it is worth looking at what the people already coming to your … Continue reading “Getting Traffic But No Leads? 10 Things to Fix Before You Spend More on Ads”
We just published a new release of the AI Friendliness plugin with new scoring factors. This update reflects several practical improvements to how the score evaluates pages, including stronger handling of answer blocks, better detection of important content hidden behind JavaScript or interaction, and a re-balancing of a few existing factors based on more recent … Continue reading “New AI Friendliness Score Update”
If you are searching for the best WordPress development company for casinos, you are not just looking for a developer. You are looking for a partner who understands performance, security, and the unique demands of the gaming industry. Casino websites are not typical WordPress projects. They require structured content systems, high-performance architecture, and careful handling … Continue reading “How to Choose the Best WordPress Development Company for Casinos: 20 Questions to Ask”
If your nonprofit is planning a new website, the decisions you make early on will shape how well the site actually works for your organization. Get it right and fundraising, volunteer recruitment, and day-to-day content management all get easier. Get it wrong and you end up with a site that creates friction, costs more than … Continue reading “WordPress for Nonprofits: What You Need to Know Before You Build a Nonprofit Website”
We recently wrote about whether we build and maintain non-WordPress sites, and the answer is absolutely yes. We work with Shopify, Webflow, BigCommerce, and other platforms regularly. But after nearly 20 years of building and maintaining websites across just about every platform out there, I want to make the case for something we see play … Continue reading “Why Most Sites Are a Good Fit for WordPress”
If you have been following the AI search optimization space, you probably know by now that getting your content cited by AI tools like ChatGPT is becoming as important as ranking in Google. But most of the advice out there focuses on what kind of content to create. Very little of it addresses something more … Continue reading “How ChatGPT Reads Your Content”
If you want to understand how RAG systems actually work under the hood, this article by Pedro Dias at Visively is one of the better reads out there. It covers vector embeddings, hybrid retrieval, re-ranking thresholds, and why information gain matters more than keyword density. Better than 90% of the AI SEO content floating around … Continue reading “Content Freshness: A Key Factor in Getting Found by AI”
You have probably noticed it by now. That blog post a company published that sounds like it was written by a committee of robots. The LinkedIn post that uses all the right buzzwords, but says absolutely nothing. The email that opens with “In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape…” and immediately gets deleted. That is AI … Continue reading “Why Vibe Marketing Is a Necessity for Digital Marketing in 2026”
We use AI in our business and sometimes help our clients develop practical AI strategies for their business. What about using AI for content marketing. Can you use it to write compelling blog posts, social media posts, and ad copy? The short answer is yes, but you have to be strategic in the way you … Continue reading “AI Can Write Your Marketing Content. But Should It?”
Do we use AI at MantyWeb? Yes. We do. Most agencies use AI in some form, and I would be shocked if those that don’t will avoid using AI much longer. Here’s some of what we’re using AI for: ✅ Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Windsurf, Cursor and other tools for development and debugging work ✅ … Continue reading “AI For Digital Marketing Agencies – Do you use AI in your Business?”
The Ultimate WordPress Website Audit Checklist for 2026 Your WordPress website is working right now, but is it working well? A comprehensive website audit reveals hidden problems that silently cost you traffic, leads, and revenue every single day. We’re often asked to perform website audits focusing on different aspects (plugins, speed, SEO, conversions), so we … Continue reading “How To Audit Your WordPress Website”
A smooth WordPress project starts long before anyone touches a theme or a plugin. This checklist walks you through what to decide and prepare so your new site launches on time, within budget, and ready to support real business goals, not just “look nicer than the old one.” If you’re planning a new WordPress site … Continue reading “The Small Business Owner’s Checklist For A New WordPress Website Project”
2025 Pricing Guide – If you are researching WordPress maintenance, you have probably noticed that pricing is all over the map. Offers range from $25 a month to $3,000 or more a month, which makes confident budgeting hard. Here is the short version. DIY upkeep runs about $25 to $90 a month in tools, plus … Continue reading “How Much Do WordPress Maintenance Plans Cost?”
Many WordPress sites get rebuilt every 3 to 5 years because owners skip routine maintenance. That cost is avoidable. Styles do change, and we recommend a visual refresh every 2 to 5 years so your site does not look dated. With steady maintenance, you can update the design without rebuilding the entire site. Think of … Continue reading “The Complete WordPress Maintenance Guide for 2025”
The Complete Guide to GEO and AEO Optimization Lately, everyone’s been asking us the same thing: “How do we make our site friendly for AI?” As people use AI tools more often in place of search engines, it’s becoming clear that website owners need to understand how AI bots view their website. Much of what … Continue reading “The Complete Guide to GEO and AEO Optimization”
When I worked at HP I was a JAVA security developer for one of their enterprise network management tools. I used to run a cross divisional weekly security meeting where we discussed things like cryptography, SSO, MD5 Hashes, SAML, and other technical topics, none of which you need to understand to audit your WordPress site. … Continue reading “How to Perform a WordPress Security Audit”
This is a roundup of some of the interesting articles I read the last few weeks that I think you might find interesting as well. Google January 2020 Core Update Is Live & It’s Big This week Google is rolling out a new core update. Some people are seeing huge changes in their rankings. We … Continue reading “Digital Marketing News From Around The Web”
