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Just a heads up having your email address plain out in the open in the long term will result in far more spam emails than a contact form would. Your email address out in the open will cause it to get added to spam email lists, whereas with a contact form you only receive spam when a bot...

Correct - if your site is not secure yet tripadvisor traffic will get thrown into the Direct category abyss where you can't track anything. So you would either need to use a UTM tracking url on your profile or migrate your site over to https. Here's a handy chart for whether or not your...

Just created a forum post that could help with better quantifying the results from email marketing campaigns: https://www.innspiring.com/node/18570

One other thing I forgot to mention is the importance of using UTM tracking codes on links to your website so you can track the performance and results of each campaign. For example using them on your email blasts would be beneficial in seeing what users do once they land on your site, without...

I'm sure most everyone now has Google Analytics installed on their websites (I hope) but are you using it to make smart business decisions? Setting up goals is very important and will allow you to better evaluate the performance of your website and identify your top performing traffic sources...

Yes agreed, the gravity forms plugin with the honeypot spam protection turned on is definitely the way to go. Some captcha's make it difficult for customers to even contact you so gravity form's honeypot spam protection does all the work behind the scenes without inconveniencing your potential...

Awesome - you're welcome, I'm glad I could help! That's odd that developers would steer someone away from Yoast, it's literally the #1 wordpress plugin and used on millions of sites with no issues. I'd recommend checking it out on the next site you do :)

Yeah it's always a pain when a plugin, theme, or wordpress update causes something to break! Sorry for creating a little bit more work for you, that's what happens when you ask for feedback I guess. lol :) I'd still consider at least fixing some of the quick form issues for him though so it...

Not that I can think of :) It might seem like a lot but most of it is related to the reservation form and for someone as experienced with Wordpress as Empty Nest is, it shouldn't take more than an hour or so to make the changes real quick. None of it was things that were done wrong, they were...

Hey Empty Nest, since you helped me out on my site I wanted to lend the same courtesy for your client's site! :) 1) On the homepage, your top banner image seems to be cut off extremely short? It looks like there should be a beautiful large picture of the river there. 2) Is the house actually...

Thank you! Yes, I'm hoping to get the hot tub picture replaced in the next week or so before the first snowfall hits Yeah I created the countdown timer to try to give guests the extra nudge to place their booking right then, rather than have them plan on coming back later to decide and then...

Awesome, glad to hear you got it fixed! I posted a few other suggestions on your original thread to lend you the same courtesy and help you offered me :)

Of all the pages this is probably my favorite and what I feel a lot of Inns don't always do as good of a job promoting, their great reviews: https://www.himelhochbb.com/reviews/

Nice! I did notice that it looks like a couple of the images on your homepage are broken now though, not sure if it's on my end or related to the image optimization but thought I'd let you know so you can take a look at it.

Very true, good point hadn't even thought of that aspect. I will add it to my list of photos to retake!

Nope it's not me in the photos but I agree now that you bring it up, an angle without faces would have been a better choice so guests could visualize themselves as the ones enjoying the hot tub. It's the same philosophy behind realtors removing family photos from houses for sale. This would be a...

Took about too long to load the header images, I was about to leave. Personally I don't like having that many images loading in header,I will not wait for them all to view one or two is sufficient. I don't like the darkened / shaded overlay I prefer to see brighter images that will wow me. I'm...

Thanks for this report, lots of good info! I'm using some optimization plugins to try to get my PageSpeed as high as possible and it looks like it's not too horrible compared to some other B&B sites because it scored significantly higher than EmpyNest's recently completed riverdellbb.com site...

On the technical side of things, I'd take a look at Google's PageSpeed Insights recommendations for each page. It looks like most of the pages score in the low 20-30's out of 100, with your homepage scoring a 20/100 on mobile and a 23/100 on desktop. You would see a huge jump in PageSpeed simply...

I'd take a look at Google PageSpeed Insights' recommendations . Most of your pages rank in the low 20-30's out of a 100 score. For example your homepage scores a 20/100 on mobile and 23/100 on desktop. You can boost that score pretty easily by optimizing the large images using a low loss...