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7
Nov
Ninety percent of all search engine traffic goes through Google with its spiders crawling the web looking for the most relevant sites to display at the top of their results page. Since these searches get 60 percent of the clicks, earning a spot high on the first page of Google’s results nearly guarantees engagement. When someone searches for a local service, such as “newspaper in Salt Lake City, Utah,” Google […]
2
Nov
Our-Hometown’s engineers have released a small update to our Top Stories widget, adding the option to showcase the top performing stories of the past year. Previously, the widget was limited to a more immediate timeframe and only able to display the most popular articles of the past week, two weeks, one month, three months, or six months. Check out an example of the Top Stories widget in action on SignalsAZ […]
25
Oct
Our-Hometown is excited to announce that our friend, partner and frequent guest-contributor Mr. Kevin Slimp has agreed to offer our publishers the opportunity to meet with him for a FREE consultation on ways to improve their newspaper product! Kevin is well-known in the newspaper industry for his wide array of expertise across various stages of the newspaper production process — everything from writing effective headlines and designing effective advertisements to […]
19
Oct
Our-Hometown’s WordPress Publishing Platform includes support for three popular payment gateways that allow your readers and customers to place orders and make payments online through your website: Stripe, Authorize.net, and PayPal. Over the years, Stripe has emerged as our preferred payment gateway because of how easily it integrates with our suite of plugins and software. While Stripe remains a completely safe and secure option, there are some additional steps you […]
5
Oct
Our-Hometown is excited to announce that our Audio Articles premium add-on is being offered to customers at a special discounted price! For a limited time, we are waiving for $250 Setup Fee associated with your first-time Audio Articles configuration! Audio Articles converts the text content published on your website into narrated audio files and tailored playlists that a reader can listen to in lieu of reading each article individually. Not […]
22
Sep
In this publisher interview the Our-Hometown team is joined by Emily Sachar, Publisher and Editor of the Red Hook Daily Catch based in New York’s Hudson Valley. Emily was featured on NPR for her unique collaboration with a man named Pavel . . . and his cat Dora, and in this interview gives some remarkable insights into the story.
21
Sep
Our-Hometown has released another add-on enhancement to our existing Metered Paywall feature: the Source Based Paywall Meter!
The Source Based Paywall Meter allows you to set up several different sources as referrers, such as social sharing sites like Facebook, Twitter, and the like. Each referring source can then have its own custom Paywall Meter with unique settings applied.
14
Sep
Our-Hometown’s engineers are always working behind the scenes to improve the selection of tools we’ve made available to publishers, and this week they’ve released an update to our Metered Paywall that introduces a brand new feature: the ability to use your Metered Paywall as a Subscribe Banner in lieu of an actual countdown meter.
14
Sep
In this publisher interview the Our-Hometown team is joined by Kristen Weaver, Director of Operations at the Wilson County News in Floresville Texas.
7
Sep
Our-Hometown is pleased to announce that we’ve added a new, more robust photo gallery plugin to our suite of tools available to customers: NextGEN Gallery!