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Customize your sharing icons with AddToAny

Customize your sharing icons with AddToAny

Our-Hometown’s WordPress Publishing Platform uses the AddToAny plugin to add social sharing functionality to all Articles, Pages, Events and other Custom Post Types (when enabled). Each piece of content will feature a series of sharing icons that allow a reader to quickly share the content on their favorite social media networks, or via SMS and Email. The AddToAny icons are enabled on our websites by default, so you’ve likely seen […]

AI Technologies and SEO for News Publishers – Webinar Replay

AI Technologies and SEO for News Publishers – Webinar Replay

Our recent webinar focused on Search Engine Optimization for news publishers and highlighted various techniques for optimizing your website’s structure and content in order to improve visibility and ranking on popular search engines.

How ChatGPT aims to improve search engines & SEO

How ChatGPT aims to improve search engines & SEO

Our special LIVE WEBINAR on SEO For Newspapers is just one week away, and because the presentation will focus heavily on new AI language models like ChatGPT, we thought we would try something different this week. In an effort to demonstrate the true power and potential of the tool, we’ve asked ChatGPT itself to explain the impact its abilities will have on search engines and search engine optimization. Please enjoy […]

SEO for Newspapers LIVE WEBINAR set for March 17th

SEO for Newspapers LIVE WEBINAR set for March 17th

Our-Hometown is excited to announce that our friend and industry expert Michael Cottam will be joining us on March 17th, 2023 to host a LIVE WEBINAR on SEO For Newspapers! The presentation will focus on Search Engine Optimization for news publishers and will highlight various techniques for optimizing your website’s structure and content in order to improve visibility and ranking on popular search engines. Michael will also cover several new […]

The Secret to Growing Papers: Give the readers what they want

The Secret to Growing Papers: Give the readers what they want

The following guest column was contributed by our friend and industry expert, Kevin Slimp! Don’t miss Kevin’s LIVE webinar on “Advanced Skills in Photoshop” next Thursday, February 16th at 3PM EST. It is available to Our-Hometown customers free as part of the Kevin Slimp Webinar Series! Earlier this month, I traveled about an hour from my home to conduct focus groups for a weekly newspaper in Tennessee. Focus groups come […]

Don’t forget to upgrade to Google Analytics 4

Don’t forget to upgrade to Google Analytics 4

As technology continues to evolve, it’s important for businesses to stay up-to-date with the latest tools and platforms. In the world of web analytics, this means making the switch from Google Analytics Universal to the new and improved Google Analytics 4. As you may already know, Google Analytics Universal is being phased out and will stop processing new data on July 1st, 2023. This means that it is essential for […]

How Reverse Publishing can help you in 2023

How Reverse Publishing can help you in 2023

At Our-Hometown, Inc. we understand the challenges that newspaper publishers face in today’s digital landscape, having assisted in combating these hurdles for over two decades. This experience has helped us to develop revolutionary features like our Reverse Publishing tool, which allows news publishers to easily compile, edit and publish their articles on the web before exporting them to InDesign or other layout software to prepare the print edition. Our Reverse […]

The Digital Initiative in 2023

The Digital Initiative in 2023

Our-Hometown’s Digital Initiative program launched in 2022, partnering with three State Press Associations and already assisting more than a dozen newspaper publications transition to a digital model that introduces a number of brand new revenue streams unavailable to print-only publications. We’re excited to see the program expand to more states and Press Associations in 2023, continuing our goal of assisting every print newspaper in the country adapt to the ever-evolving […]

10 Ways to Increase Subscription Revenue in 2023

10 Ways to Increase Subscription Revenue in 2023

Although the newspaper industry has changed dramatically in the past several years, we’re still facing many of the same challenges that have plagued publishers for decades. Namely: declining subscriptions. We wanted to help our customers start the new year off on the right foot by offering several simple methods publishers can use to increase subscription revenue in 2023. Below are 10 Ways to Increase Subscription Revenue this year: 1. Combo […]

Identifying your most popular stories of the year

Identifying your most popular stories of the year

As we approach the end of the year, many publishers are eager to review any data that can help them develop a strategy for producing high-quality, engaging content to keep readers coming back in the year ahead. That same data can be useful for marketing purposes, such as adjusting advertising costs for specific categories or types of content that attract more readers. While there are countless techniques for examining visitor […]

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