SEO Friendly Images in 7 Steps

How important is it to have SEO friendly images? Does your article or blog post even need an image at all?

Images help bring your articles to life and break up the monotony of any long-form content. Also, Google Image Search is becoming more popular. 10% of all Google traffic is done through Images.google.com.

That’s approximately 1 billion page views per day!

Google Image searches are 10 times more frequent than any search on Bing and Yahoo. Including SEO friendly images in your content is a great strategy for increasing your organic traffic.

Like any good SEO strategy, creating SEO friendly images can be achieved by following a few simple steps. Let’s take a look at how to create SEO friendly images in 7 easy steps.

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Best WordPress Hosting

Choosing the best WordPress hosting for your website is extremely important.  In fact, it is one of the most important components of a successful website. Before you jump in and choose a hosting provider, you should have an idea of what type of WordPress website hosting your website will need.

Do you need a dedicated server for your site, or is shared hosting enough?  Can you handle all of the technical aspects of a WordPress website or should you go with managed WordPress hosting?

If you want to learn more about the various levels of WP Hosting and see what type of plan you should use for your website, see our hosting descriptions below.  Otherwise, let’s get started with the list of the best WordPress hosting providers.

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7 Page Title SEO Tips to Improve Ranking

Are you looking for some tips to quickly improve your website’s SEO?  One important factor that is commonly overlooked is your page titles.

By using a few little page title SEO tips to optimize your titles, you have the potential to see improvements in your website’s organic search ranking and traffic.

7 Page Title SEO Tips to improve Ranking – Summary

  1. Keep page titles to about 55 – 60 characters long
  2. Use target keywords in titles
  3. Describe your page content in the best way possible
  4. Use words like HOW, WHY, WHAT and WHERE as well as BEST REVIEW and ULTIMATE
  5. Write unique titles, no duplicates
  6. Use your brand name wisely
  7. Keep it simple
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2018 Year End WordPress Plugin Sale

The 2018 Holiday sale may have ended, but the year is not quite over yet…

What better way to get ready for ringing in the New Year than with a Year End Sale!

For a limited time only (now until Dec. 31st),  all of our plugins are 70% off.  Just use promo code YREND2018 during check out to lock in your savings.

70% Discount on all WordPress Plugins

70% off WP Easy Gallery Pro (info)

70% off WP Translate Pro (info)

70% off Custom Post Donations Premium (info)

Don’t forget to use the promo code YREND2018 during check out.

See you in 2019!

Best 2018 Holiday Sale!

Happy Holidays and Season’s Greetings!

It’s that time of the years again… 

Loved ones gathered around a crackling fire…

The smell of cinnamon and apple-cider… 

We are having the best holiday sale on our WordPress Plugins for 2018.

50% Discount on any purchase here at the PluginGarden

That’s right! Use the promo code HOL2018 on any plugin purchase between now and Christmas to receive a 50% discount off of your entire purchase.

50% off WP Easy Gallery Pro (info)

50% off WP Translate Pro (info)

50% off Custom Post Donations Premium (info)

Remember to use the promo code HOL2018 to get your discount.

Happy Holidays!

WordPress Photo Gallery Plugin – WP Easy Gallery

WP Easy Gallery Updates

Each WordPress Photo Gallery Plugin, WP Easy Gallery and WP Easy Gallery Pro, have new versions. Both updates have great feature enhancements and bug fixes included.

WP Easy Gallery Pro version 4.6.1 includes these updates:

  • Fixed image upload work flow (now uses WordPress Media Loader)
  • Added a new Masonry gallery layout
  • Converted Javascript loading to be non-blocking for better page-load speed
  • Refined UI when updating photo galleries and images

WP Easy Gallery Pro pricing and download

These are the updates to our free WordPress photo gallery plugin

First, WP Easy Gallery 4.5.2 has several admin UI enhancements:

  • Updated image upload process to allow multiple image uploads
  • Simplified image upload work flow
  • Converted Javascript loading to be non-blocking for better page-load speed
  • Refined UI when updating photo galleries and images

Second, WP Easy Gallery 4.5.2 contains a few critical bug fixes:

  • Fixed bug preventing social sharing buttons from being able to be hidden
  • Fixed bug with media loader not opening for thumbnail preview insert (add and edit galleries)

You can try the free version of WP Easy Gallery 4.5.2 by downloading it here. You can also visit the WordPress Repository.

Translate WordPress with WP Translate 5.0

Do you need to Translate WordPress?

Are you looking to explode your audience reach for your WordPress blog? Have you been struggling to translate WordPress content on your site?

We are excited to bring you WP Translate 5.0, the latest Google Translate WordPress plugin. WP Translate 5.0 will bring you the results you desire in reaching your global audience.

WP Translate adds the power of Google Translate to your WordPress site. This will give your readers the ability to select what language they would like to read your content in.

Stop struggling! Easily translate WordPress with
WP Translate Pro

Only $9/ (includes 1 year of free updates)

Is WP Translate better than
Professional Translators?

Why spend tons of money on expensive professional translators? Most professional translators offer a one-time translation service for a fee.

When you add more content, you need to hire them all over again. If you need to edit your existing content, the agony of paying them more money hits you.

That’s just crazy!

Save time and money translating!

WP Translate uses the power of Google Translate to effortlessly translate your content on the fly. When you add new content, it will be translated. When you make updates to your existing content, the changes get translated.  No hassle or stress, just easy translations.

Don’t pay high-priced translation services!
WP Translate Pro

Only $9 (includes 1 year of free updates)

What WordPress content can I translate with
WP Translate?

Want a toolbar widget on every page?  WP Translate does that by default.

Want to add translation language selector to your sidebar? WP Translate has a widget for that. (check out the one to the right…)

Do you only need to translate a single page on your WordPress site? WP Translate has a built-in shortcode you can drop into your content. Doing this adds a similar dynamic language selector to the body of the content. Check it out here.

Ready to easily translate your WordPress content?
WP Translate Pro

Only $9 (includes 1 year of free updates)

Can I try it before I buy it?

Of course, you can! Download the free version of WP Translate directly from the WordPress plugin repository and take it for a trial run.

Happy Translating!

Hello world!

New WordPress Plugin Site

Welcome to PluginGarden.com!

All of the premium WordPress Plugins previously available at labs.hahncreativegroup.com have a new home and a new site.

labs.hahncreativegroup.com is now PluginGarden.com.  This is the new place to find all of the premium WordPress plugins by HahnCreativeGroup.

After several years of hosting the plugins on the old sub-domain, I felt it was time to give all of my WordPress Plugins a brand new site and domain.

All of the plugins are still owned and maintained by HahnCreativeGroup.

Premium WordPress Plugins

Want to open up your content to the global market place? Try WP Translate.

Need more features?  Upgrade to WP Translate Pro

Purchase Google Translate WordPress plugin

$9 (includes 1 year of free updates)

Need an easy to use image gallery/album plugin? Check out WP Easy Gallery.

More to Come…

PluginGarden.com is still under construction and all content is being moved from labs.hahncreativegroup.com.  Check back often to see all of the new things happening at the plugin garden.