Each morning I check my email to see if there’s been any activity for Dashify. This could be new submissions to our Google Form linked from within the plugin (there’s been 3 so far), emails from people I’ve emailed, or a post to the WordPress.org support forum.
Today, there was nothing, so I decided to get started on something that’s worked well for me (and many other products) in the past: a blog post that drives relevant traffic to the site.
What I’ve made on the website (a static HTML site) is simple, but it loads really fast and gets to the point, which I’ve found people appreciate a lot. I’ve seen many other company blogs trying to “do SEO” by pumping out posts that take forever to get to the point. Supposedly there’s a reason for it, but I don’t buy it. Those always leave a bad taste in my mouth and hardly ever deliver the actual information I’m looking for. And so, I’m trying to write the kind of blog posts that I myself would appreciate.
Complete with screenshots to show what the article is talking about visually:
Along with this, I decided to fill up the footer a little more and added a list of recent blog posts, privacy and terms pages, as well as some help links. I hope that with the recent blog posts shown in the footer of the home page, it will show that Dashify is an active project.
