Hiring a WordPress Consultant: Your Essential Guide to Finding the Right Expert

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As a website and content management platform, WordPress can be a joy to use. It’s relatively user-friendly, and allows most small business owners to edit their website content without having to hire a professional WordPress consultant. However, WordPress can also come with its challenges. Plugins, security, updates, content management, backups, PHP errors and small business […]

7 Reasons For A Small Business Website Redesign

Even the most aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly small business websites eventually need a facelift. At Bandicoot, we recommend a small business website redesign every 30 months max (approximately 2.5 years). At face value, this may seem quick. But unlike certain industries that seem to never change, or change very little through the years (think plumbing, […]

The Top 10 Web Design Trends In 2024

Web design is an ever-changing field. As a small business, staying up with the trends for how your small business website should look, feel and operate can help you stay relevant and increase your conversion rates on your website. This, in turn, helps you continually convert your website visitors into fresh new customers for your […]

10 Small Business Website Checklist Wins

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In a post-COVID era, small business websites are more important than ever. You might be wondering if you’r ready for a small business website redesign. If you are keeping your site, have you ever wondered if you could be doing the little things better with your small business website that could make a huge impact […]

What is a website maintenance plan?

Website Maintenance Plan

What is a website maintenance plan?  A website maintenance plan is a plan of action that sets forth the procedure for caring for the plugins, security, uptime and more of a website. As a business owner, this can be done independently, but is often offered as a service from a WordPress consultant, digital agency or […]

How to Make Money with Your Website

How to make money with your website in 2022

Here’s How to Make Money With Your Website in 2024 There are hundreds of different monetization strategies and tactics that website owners can use to make money with their websites. The amount of traffic your website receives, the type of website you are managing, and the behavior of your users can all impact the success […]

Should I Build or Buy My Website?

Should I build or buy a website?  As a small business owner, your time is money and you’re focused on building your business (as most small business owners are) then it’s probably most logical to hire a professional web team and here’s why. On average, it will take about 150-200 hours to build a SIMPLE […]

What makes a good call to action?

What makes a good call to action?

What makes a good call to action? A call to action or CTA is the one thing you want to “call” your website visitors to do, or take action on prior to leaving your website. A good call to action is easy for the user and narrowed down to what fuels your business.    What […]

Why your slow website is costing you leads

Why is your slow website costing you leads? Google favors fast speed Easy user experience to guide them to your CTA In 2022, google changed the importance of web speed. It is now extremely important to ranking and can affect where you show in google search results, thus affecting traffic and your ability to generate […]

5 WordPress Website Essentials In 2023

Call-to-Action If you can only choose one way to improve your website, the Call To Action is of paramount importance. It is the direct way to make your website a tool for profit rather than simply a monthly expense. With that being said, the attention span of visitors to your website is shrinking every year. […]