Posts by Scott Ellis
Remove “Category” From WordPress URL’s with WP No Category Base – Plugin Review
Well-formed URL’s are important to usability and SEO. WordPress permalinks give us awesome control over the structure of our base URL’s. Combined with well written headlines, we can create catchy, easy to remember, user friendly URL’s across our site. However, the base install of WordPress will add the word “category” to your url structure before…
Read MoreOwn Your Website Or Someone Else Will
Own your content, your domain name, your links. In fact, Own Everything I have worked with a number of clients that didn’t own their domain names, hosting account, and in some cases didn’t even know their credentials. Many of you don’t own your own content or assets related to your online presence, and that’s a HUGE mistake. While…
Read MoreWP Engine – Rock Solid WordPress Hosting
As vsellis.com has continued to grow the need for a very solid hosting platform has become increasingly important. After maintaining my own server for a few years, and not being particularly good at it, I started looking around for managed hosting. About that time, friend Aaron Brazel started work with a specialized WordPress host, Austin…
Read MoreThe Secret of Building Successful Business Relationships
Every business owner can tell you the importance of differentiating your business. In social media circles, we talk about “building relationships” and “building trust.” We know doing those things will rock our business but we get stuck on the “how.” And execution is what really matters. The one way sure way to do all of the…
Read MoreEvernote Power Tip – Dynamic ToDo Lists
If you really want to get the most out of Evernote check out the recently updated version of Brett Kelly’s “Evernote Essentials,” you get a ton of useful knowledge and I’ll get beer money. I’ve been an Evernote user and big fan of the application for some time now but one thing I’ve struggled with in the application…
Read MoreWhy Your Client Doesn’t Trust You, And What You Can Do About It
When Julius Cesar was murdered by a group of Roman Senators he looked to one Senator, and good friend, Marcus Brutus and uttered the ever famous words “Et tu Brute?” (“Even you, Brutus?”). Those words have since become synonymous with trust defied and ultimate betrayal. Trust takes time to build and only a single instance…
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