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As the well-known saying goes; “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” That’s exactly what Yoast Academy is all about. Instead of fixing the SEO of your website for you once, we’ll teach you how to do it yourself forever. If you’re new to SEO, the best start is our Basic SEO course, followed by the Yoast SEO for WordPress plugin training with personal configuration review which teaches you how to configure our popular Yoast SEO plugin on your website. After mastering these basics, you can take the deep dive with Technical SEO, SEO copywriting, multilingual SEO and many other courses.

And the more knowledge you have, the better we can work together on making the web a better place for everyone!

Mshini is a managed WordPress hosting company based in Cape Town.  Founded in 2016, Mshini strives to provide the fastest managed WordPress hosting in South Africa, amazing support from WordPress experts, the tools you need to maintain a successful website and more!

Mshini’s product offering includes a Single Site Hosting plan, bulk hosting plans, a dedicated server hosting plan and a Free Dev Site plan which allows WordPress site builders and developers to create sites on Mshini’s infrastructure for free.  More information on Mshini’s WordPress hosting plans here.

All Mshini customers have access to an array of WordPress specific tools, including free WordPress site migrations, staging environments, automatic updates, automatic SSL setup, 1-click backups and restores, and the ability to manage their own SSH keys, all from within a custom built and lightweight customer control panel.

uAfrica offers online eCommerce tools to help streamline your business processes when it comes to fulfilling and shipping orders to customers.

With integrations into WooCommerce, Shopify, bidorbuy and PriceCheck, uAfrica is unrivalled in their ability to increase your online brand visibility with their outstanding Multichannel offering and uAfrica’s Shipping is second to none with their automated processes, discounted shipping rates and innovative features to help companies, large and small, to manage fulfillments on a daily basis.To find out more, email support@uafrica.com or call us in the office on 012 940 1060.

Payflex is an innovative new payment solution that allows online customers to buy-now and pay-later over 6-weeks at no additional cost, no interest, hassle-free. The benefit to the merchant is an increase in sales through an increase in basket size and frequency, merchants get paid the next day and the customer has a customer friendly user experience. Integration is simple with a specially developed WooCommerce plugin. Contact us for a free demo or more information. Contact: Wendy Dent – wendy.dent@payflex.co.za; www.payflex.co.za

Weglot is a WordPress multilingual plugin to translate and display websites in different languages.

Trusted by 30,000+ websites, Weglot is used by freelancers, agencies and companies in more than 100+ countries. With 650+ 5-star reviews, it’s the most and best rated translation plugin on the official WordPress Directory.

Key benefits include:

– Turnkey and easy setup and maintenance: 3m to install, no tech skills required, users focus on translated content only

– Compatible with any Theme and Plugin (inc. WooCommerce): Weglot code is happening at the end of the server code, so it does not care where the content is coming from. All content in the source code will be translated. No add-on needed or anything else

– SEO optimized for translations: following Google 3 key best practices for multilingual SEO. Unique URL, hreflang tags and translated content in the source code otherwise Google could not see it

– Manage translations: with 3 source of translations available via their Weglot account, human, professional and machine translations

– Powerful: no websites  slow down, no database overload

– Expert team of support: dedicated team of experts helping users within a day max (business days on CET timezone)

ShoppingFeeder makes it easy for merchants to market their products on comparison shopping engines including PriceCheck, Google Shopping, Facebook, TakeALot and a lot more. Merchants often see up to 20% of their online traffic coming from these comparison engines, so it’s important to include them us as part of your strategy. But, manually handling all of it can be time-consuming and leaves a lot of room for error.

With ShoppingFeeder however, the process is simplified, since we provide a single point of integration to push out your product catalog and automates daily feed submissions to more than 200 shopping channels. Built-in analytics allows you to measure clicks, conversions, and revenue across channels or by SKU.

Servebolt provides high performance Managed hosting for WordPress and WooCommerce that is known to be lightning fast and scalable. Servebolt’s speed applies to both the front-end, the backend and the databases. We opened region South Africa data center in October 2018!

Any Servebolt Plan will automatically scale to more than 500 simultaneous visitors, which is ideal for e-commerce, viral blogs and other high traffic sites. For normal business sites, prices can start as low as 8 euros per site per month, with the same performance and scalability as our high performance plans.

Do you run an Agency? Get a 20% recurring revenue stream on all hosting by joining the Servebolt Partner Program.