Tool Tryout Tuesday
Trying Out Kindle Converters
You’ve got a great e-book and you want to share it with the world! Usually we just upload a PDF to a website, but that’s because most of the e-books we make are intended to serve as premium content for marketing. When you want to sell your ebook or to get it into the largest…
Trying Out Web Text Tool
WebTextTool is a text editing tool designed to help you optimize your content for the web, a sort of automated SEO tool for website content. Let’s acknowledge that machines aren’t as good with human languages as humans are, and that you can write complete drivel into the editing box of this tool and still get…
Trying Out the Add This Popup
We all hate popups, right? Gideon actually went out of his way to tell me how much he dislikes the pop-up we added here at Haden Interactive. But I’ve been testing the Add This popup with a friendly invitation to sign up for our newsletter. Because we may dislike popups, but they work. We often…
Trying out the WordStream Keyword Tool
Keyword research can involve lots of different strategies, but using a keyword tool is a pretty obvious option. We’ve looked at free keyword tools before, and have not been impressed. Years ago, I read a suggestion to use a dictionary to identify useful keywords, and the keyword tools we tested didn’t rise far above that…
Trying Out WP-Optimize
Your company’s WordPress website requires some maintenance and upkeep. This is a reason some people don’t choose to use WordPress, but the alternative is to allow your website to degrade over time, and have a new one built every few years. That’s what people used to do, and it is still an option. If you…
Trying Out Squarespace Cover Page
Our friends over at DOXA alerted us to a new (to me) product at Squarespace: Cover Page, the Canva of landing pages. It’s very easy to use, requiring absolutely no coding or tech skills beyond an ability to navigate around the website. You begin by choosing from the layouts offered — and there are quite…