{"id":2571414,"date":"2018-07-24T00:18:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T00:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpml.org\/?p=2571414"},"modified":"2019-06-25T10:10:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T10:10:37","slug":"wordpress-marketing-sucks-will-you-help-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpml.org\/he\/community\/2018\/07\/wordpress-marketing-sucks-will-you-help-fix-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Marketing In WordPress Sucks. Will You Help Fix It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">We make our living from WordPress, so once in a while we take our head out of the sand and look around. As part of a different research that I was doing, I stumbled upon a big warning light.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trends.google.com\/trends\/explore?date=all&amp;geo=US&amp;q=WordPress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2571496\" src=\"https:\/\/wpml.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wordpress-popularity-1024x483.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpml.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wordpress-popularity-1024x483.png 1024w, https:\/\/wpml.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wordpress-popularity-150x71.png 150w, https:\/\/wpml.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wordpress-popularity-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/wpml.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wordpress-popularity-768x362.png 768w, https:\/\/wpml.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wordpress-popularity.png 1412w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Try it, to see what I'm talking about:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=business+website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=business+website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=restaurant+website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=restaurant+website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=website+for+my+hotel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=website+for+my+hotel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even though WordPress powers 25% of the Web, WordPress is nowhere to be seen in any of these results.<\/p>\n<p>Today, clients find WordPress because Web agencies use and recommend it. But when clients already come to agencies with another platform in mind, this can quickly change. It's happened before to other ex popular platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The only way to reverse this trend and put WordPress back again in the mind of prospects is by getting together.<\/p>\n<p>We're trying to do our bit by launching a new <a href=\"\/?cat_ID=25071\">WordPress Marketing<\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Are you interested in helping? Please leave your comments with your thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We make our living from WordPress, so once in a while we take our head out of the sand and look around. As part of a different research that I was doing, I stumbled upon a big warning light. 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