When it comes to easy and faster website building in WordPress, then a comparison between Elementor vs Divi would be a good starting point to decided which one is better.

I started to learn more about website builders such as Elementor since I was a working student.

Elementor actually was pretty easy to learn fast.

I remember that even at the training, the one who was in charge of telling me how to use it was actually surprised I catch really easy how does Elementor worked.

As many other tool, as you keep using and using a tool, you become more trained, and eventually your designs are better.

When starting web design with WordPress, one can usually just go with the WordPress Themes and then make the adjustments.

Those who build websites from scratch with HTML, CSS and Javascript, my respects, but honestly there are already tools that make simple and faster ways to build a website in WordPress.

Elementor for me was the go place, since I learned how to use it.

But one day one new eventual client contacted me because he needed help with WPML plugin to translate his website.

I did give him support with WPML, but he also asked me if I could help him improving his web design, and that he had Divi.

That was my first direct contact with Divi.

At that time, Divi was only for back-end web design, so in comparison with Elementor, it was a bit harder to see in real time the changes in front-end.

Eventually, Divi improved and you could build the website from the front-end.

But still I was not really getting used to Divi, but mainly because I was more used to how Elementor worked.

Divi had also some templates, but I found out that Elementor was starting to have more growth than Divi.

For example, the plugin from Envato Elements was really helpful to build up a website, and it was mainly compatible with Elementor.

If you are looking to build WordPress Websites with better designs for free, then, that combination could be perfect for you.

So, the main reason I am choosing Elementor, is because it is easy to use. The drag and drop is intuitive. It has compatibility with plenty other plugins and they are updating constantly their code.

Of course, a wordpress website builder such Elementor or Divi could add code that affect your loading speeds.

To read more visit:  Elementor vs Divi | Best WordPress Website Builders.

Elementor has turned out to be the go to plugin when we talk about WordPress PageBuilders.

Elementor is really to install and really easy to use.

I have used Elementor for more than 3 years now and I can say that it is way better than just using WordPress Themes.

One of the problems that I dealt while building websites in WordPress, was that I used to buy WordPress Themes on Themeforest, and then build from there the WordPress Website.

Since I am not a real Programmer or I don’t have full knowledge about HTML, CSS or Javascripts and so on, modyfing a WordPress Theme seem complicated for me.

Of course, you might not really need too much about IT skills, but at the beginning it was complicated.

As I learned about Elementor, it changed my way of building up websites.

With elementor you can build up your homepage in just minutes.

And if you mix it up with Envato Elements plugin, the work turns out easier.

The good things about Elementor are that it is compatible with multiple WordPress plugins, but sometimes the use of multiple plugins could make your website crash.

So it is recommended to go easy on the use of plugins, otherwise you will eventually have to deactivate and activate plugins, but this could also bring some issues in between.

Plus it is known that Pagebuilders add extra code to your website, so you might get a slower website, but with still loading times below 1.5 seconds.

In this Elementor Review, we will describe more what is Elementor, what are Elementor advantages and disadvantages, and why Elementor is the best WordPress Pagebuilder available, even if you compare Elementor vs Divi.

Keep reading to convince yourself that Elementor is the plugin for your WordPress website.

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When I started blogging in 2015, I started with the platform Blogger.

Blogger helped me to learn a bit of HTML and content creation.

Eventually, I wanted a better website, so I learned about WordPress.

WordPress has a huge jungle of themes and plugins.

So where to start a WordPress website that is good looking?

I did my research back then, and I found Themeforest.

Themeforest is Envato’s Marketplace of Website Themes.

Back then, I used to search among the big amounts of WordPress Themes, and start to learn about which could be a WordPress Theme that is good for my webiste.

Questions arised. Which one is good for SEO, which one is fast, which one is realiable and will have updates? And the amount of questions came on a wave.

Time passed and I bought around 5 different themes for different websites.

If you are familiar with Themeforest and Envato Market, you may realize that spending on themes have been a pain point.

They cost around $50 on average. So, I could imagine that even for agencies this could have been also a pain in the ass.

Eventually, time passed and I learned about Elementor. One of the best WordPress website page builder available up til now.

Using Elementor has been really easy, and have saved me money on WordPress Themes.

Having Elementor Pro version includes the WordPress Theme Hello, which is free to install.

But eventually, I saw that Envato rolled out now their subscription service called Envato Elements.

The good thing that I saw on Envato Elements is the price.

If you pay around $200 per year, you can have access to unlimited downloads of WordPress themes, stock images, stock video, illustrator and after effects files and more.

So actually I was getting more for what I paid.

I understand that Envato might have got the question, what are we going to do with old files. So they also combined new and old files on their subscription.

Not all of their thousands of files are good, there are also crap files.

If you ask me, does it worth better to spend on the Envato Elements subscription rathen than one single file on Envato Market, I will answer you, yes!

But of course, if you are looking for something more specific, then choose Envato Market.

But if you are looking for WordPress Themes, just don’t spend more money on Envato Market. You could also try the free plugin of Envato for WordPress and mix it up with Elementor.

You can have access to free WordPress Templates easy to install.

There are other subscrition services that are growing up such as MonsterOne, who are also offering WordPress Themes with a cheaper price, or even one time fee. I still don’t try it, but probably after I finish my Envato Subscription I would try for other solutions.

To read more visit Envato Elements vs Envato Market

While working on Digital Marketing and creating content, one thing that it is needed for websites and social media advertising is image stock.

There are many websites that offer free stock images, but the thing is that sometimes the licenses of those images might not be for commercial purposes, or they are already been used a lot by many other websites.

So I have worked with Adobe Stock, and used images from Getty Images.

I have to say that for Adobe Stock, I got to know their credit system for images. You have to use one credit for one image.

The thing is that it might get expensive if you are going to use a lot of images.

One issue that I saw, was that sometimes high quality images are not a must in some projects. So why spend too much money on an image that will be in a webpage that might not receive high traffic.

Does the investment worth it? Certainly, for me not, and I don’t think that as well for the company.

When you are trying to build a brand, there might exist brand images or core images, that I think having a high quality image will worth the use.

So what solutions are there for the websites that are not willing to spend or have a high budget to fill out their websites with images?

Well, Envato Elements is one example.

I have used Envato Elements, and I do think is a really useful digital asset subscription for nearly $190 per year.

I consider it a low cost investment in comparison with the costs of Adobe Stock or Shutter Stock. 5 Credits in Adobe Stock cost $50 or their cheapest monthly plan costs $30. Shutterstock 10 images monthly subscription costs $50.

Well, as I said, does it really worth for you high quality images on the webpages that are not visited?

If I do talk merely about the quality, I have found better images in Shutterstock than in Adobe Stock or Envato Elements.

The subscription of Envato Elements aslo includes videos, wordpress themes, music, sound effects and more. So you are actually getting access to more digital assets.

I have also found about MonsterOne, which is a service that I haven’t tried yet, but it seems they offer to just have the image and video stock for $82 per year.

To read more visit Envato Elements vs Adobe Stock vs Shutterstock

It is not a secret of me, how I enjoy Envato Elements, but of course there are many aspects that could be considered to be negative about it. Such as the big amount of useless files, since they were created like many years ago, or even files that I don’t requiere, like Joomla Templates.

Of course there are Envato Elements alternatives to consider, if you have another needs for your projects.

One question that I have receveived too much on my Youtube Videos are that “What about Envato Elements Licenses, can I download and stop paying and keep using the files for another projects?” and the answer is NO. If you want to keep using and creating new end products with the Envato Elements, you must be subscribed.

Another thing that you can do with Envato Elements, as an example, is to get the subscription for one month, download the file that you will use for the project, finish the project during that month, and stop paying the subscription. You will still have the license of the end project that you created, but the file that you downloaded, can’t be used for another project.

So what is a solution for that? Well, you can use Storyblocks.

If you are looking for an option that gives you the posibility to get the subscription, and then download the files and keep using them again for another projects even if you stop the subscription, then Storyblocks is the recommended for you.

With Storyblocks you can have access to Video, Audio, & Images, but as well, you don’t have access to WordPress Themes or Fonts, that Envato Elements has.

Also, Storyblocks has a bit more flexibility on the type of plans that you can choose for selecting a certain type of content.

Now let’s talk about Freepik. Who hasn’t heard about Freepik. One of the coolest digital assets marketplaces where there are many creative things.

I was used to use some files for them because mostly they are free if you only add the author in the description.

So it seem to be a very good place.

For personal projects, it seem ok, but I don’t think that on commercial projects having that Freepik “Watermark” so can I say, was a good thing. So the option was to start paying for Freepik.

Freepik is mainly focused on Vectors, PSD and Illustrator files, and Stock Photos.

So if you are also a WordPress Web Developer, then Freepik might not be an option.

But in comparison with the price between Envato Elements vs Freepik, Freepik has a monthly price of 10 euros, which is cheaper than even chosing the yearly subscription of Envato Elements, that it ends up around 14.5 euros.

Read more about: Envato Elements vs Storyblocks vs Freepik

When we talk about free royalty audio, there are multiple websites that can offer different soundtracks to be used.

Videos without background sound are almost just a few.

And creating Youtube Videos without adding that extra sound that makes it more special, seems to be quite difficult.

There are some sound libraries from Youtube and Facebook that can help you to find free music, but the music there is quite limited.

Therefore sometimes it is needed to pay for more extense music libraries.

Shutterstock has PremiumBeat as their sound library.

And as in the comparison of Envato Elements vs Shutterstock, Shutterstock aims to be a bit higher content quality website.

Premiumbeat offers different soundtracks that seem to be good quality, but the price is a lot higher than Envato Elements.

So again, the question is, which would be your need for content creation and what audio are you looking for?

Envato Elements has a wide variety of audio that can be used for different digital projects.

The negative aspect that I see on Envato Elements, that some of the audio content is already preregistered, and you will have to keep showing the audio license on Youtube for certain files.

So that means, that yes you have the license, but have to show it again to Youtube. It is double work.

When I use Envato Elements audio, I search for those soundtracks that are not registered on Youtube, to avoid this extra work.

Getting 5 tracks per month for nearly $65 is not an option for me, therefore price is a decision breaker for not choosing PremiumBeat.

For almost the same price, I am getting besides audio, also WordPress Themes, Image and Video Stock, Graphic Design Assets, and more.

Read More: Envato Elements vs PremiumBeat

Visual content creation needs time, and marketers and designers know that.

That is why we search for websites that can be a support to create content.

There is no perfect solution to create content, original self created content by artists might be out of the budgets of people.

Or also marketing teams have to deal with limited budgets that creating amazing content seem to be an impossible mission.

Therefore, sometimes it is required to look for creative alternatives that give a faster and accesible solution to those challenges.

The options that I have been mentioning are the use of Envato Elements and similar platforms to create visual content.

From Storyblocks, to Shutterstock, to Freepik, those have been solutions to access digital assets.

But now comparing Envato Elements vs Canva vs Placeit, are they worth it?

For whom it is meant to be Envato Elements when you compare it with Canva or Placeit.

Envato, released Placeit as their online creative solution, where it is supposed to be easier to use the different assets that Envato owns.

But in my shor test of Placeit, I was not really convinced to use it, when we talk about creating content direct from an online tool.

If I think about Canva vs Placeit, the most known tool for non designers has the win.

Canva has been improving and adding more features to its tool.

Placeit seem to be more focused for Mockups, but I do think that when designing a Mockup it might be better to use Illustrator, and in that case, it might be better to use the Envato Elements templates.

So which of those platforms are the best for content creation for non designers.

Well, quick and real answer is Canva.

Even Canva is adding Video templates that might be a good and easy solution.

I have been critized for a video tutorial that I created about how to use an after effects template from Envato Elements, and honestly, I do prefer fast and direct content, and that video might have been 3 to 4 hours long.

So if people are going to Envato Elements without any knowledge of After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, they might be lost. Since it is required a minimum of knowledge to really take advantage of those digital assets.

So as a summary, avoid Placeit, go for Canva if you are non Video or Design expert and use Envato Elements if you want to save costs and are intermediate user.

Also there is MonsterOne, another digital asset subscription option that I will talk about in future posts.

Read more in: Envato Elements vs Canva vs Placeit

One of the things that I like about Envato Elements is the different amount of categories they have.

Envato Elements offers a variety of WordPress themes, audio, video, image stock, and also after effects templates, illustrator templates and so on.

I was contacted by MonsterOne, so that I can have a look to their tool.

For now I just have seen the free setup, but I can see that they offer almost the same digital assets as Envato Elements.

TemplateMonster has been another website that I knew when I think about WordPress Themes.

And as well as Envato, they created their own new subscription platfrom MonsterOne.

What could be a decision breaker between Envato Elements vs MonsterOne?

And as I can say, the decision will be based on the subscription plan and if you want the Envato Elements plugin.

The positive side I saw from MonsterOne is that they offer different types of plans.

One of their plans is that they have one just for stock material like images, and photos, graphic design assets and presentations for for less than $8 per month.

This actually makes a difference between Envato Elements and MonsterOne.

If you are a content creator, and actually you are not aiming for WordPress themes, than it might not be worth for you to spend double that price for files that you won’t use.

But if you want all the assets that MonsterOne has, then it might be a little bit higher than Envato Elements.

MonsterOne all-in-one plan costs $19 per month.

And if you are planning more like in a long them, MonsterOne has a one-time payment for $749 for unlimited access.

This I would recommend it if you want to stick with them and don’t worry about future file licensing.

As many different services, there are advantages and disadvantages.

As I have said, I enjoy Envato Elements because it has different categories that I actually use, and I find it as a good price.

As well, there is the Envato Elements WordPress plugin that helps with templates and images, making easier the process of building a website.

Read more in: Envato Elements vs MonsterOne

One of the aims of my website has been to go global.

Speaking several languages has also given me the opportunity to meet people from all around the world.

So the same question arises when it come to International SEO, how to reach international readers or customers?

Easy, be multilingual.

There are differenty type of international seo strategies that you can use.

Which one is the perfect one or the best one?

Well, it will depends on your budget and your focus.

If you are a big company and big resources, then the best way to do International SEO is to have several domains, and each serving the respective marketg.

You can just see the Amazon International SEO Strategy.

They are localized with a ccTLD.

If you are not deep diving into analysing domains, give back again a look to the different Amazon domain names.

They have a different domain for the US, for Mexico, for Germany, etc.

This would be the best and optimal way of doing SEO, since the content is already focusing on the country.

But what will happen if I don’t have the big budget or team to manage different websites.

Well, as blogger or small e-commerce shop, you can focus on having your main generic domain at .com, and then aim to other countries using folders.

It has been already recommended by MOZ that using subdomains are not the best way for aiming to international markets. That it is better to have the subfolders for each language.

As I have been working on developing my blog for international audiences, I have focused on that strategy.

It has been just a couple months since I reactivated my blogger profession with more time, and I can say that it is starting to increase in numbers of worldwide visitors.

There are different aspects to cover that in this article will tell you see the International SEO Checklist to take care about.

Of course, I will mention the importance of having WordPress Multilingual Plugins, like WPML or Weglot, which I already have mentioned previously their main differences.

Full article at: International SEO Checklist for Wordpress.

One of the new services that are being developed is to use better cloud services as IT Infrastructure.

The big players like AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure are cloud services that seem to be focused for also bigger size companies, or at least bigger than just a freelancer or a blogger.

As a blogger, I wanted to have a place where I can write my content, and also a place where I can monetize my blog.

As one keep learning about the importance of website loading times, one understands how important is to have a fast hosting providers.

As I have told in the comparison Godaddy vs Siteground vs Kinsta vs Cloudways, choosing the best wordpress hosting has been a long way.

There are many reviews that tells you their own ideas, but you are not sure which one will be the best that fits for you.

I wanted to try out a cloud WordPress hosting, and I gave a try to Kinsta. They use Google Cloud Platform, but Kinsta was a terrible decision. Specially for a blogger.

I have to say, of course Google Cloud Platform was super fast. Plus, my website was optimized.

But the extra fees that Kinsta had if you exceeded the number of visitors, was a no for me. Specially because, they take into account bot visits for this number.

So I turn back to Siteground while I decided which other WordPress Hosting I should try.

Eventually while reading the recommendations in Facebook Groups about Cloudways with Vultr High Frequency, I decided to give it a try.

For $13 you can have your high speed WordPress Site and cloud hosting services.

So, I changed to Cloudways. (Well, all WordPress Hosting Services are in the cloud, it is just a fancy word now.)

I show you how were my GTmetrix numbers with Siteground and now with Cloudways. I can’t say it is fully optimized, but the improvement was a faster website.

Of course, there is the big difference of having a shared WordPress Hosting to a dedicated WordPress Hosting.

The DNS response rate, has been faster now.

Plus, I am using WP-Rocket to optimize the Cache, CSS, Javascripts, and HTML. There is still a long way on the Website Optimization.

But so far, my decision to choose Vultr High Frequency was the good recommendations that I have heard and read.

I had to test it by myself, and yes, it has improved way better than Siteground.

The bad side is that you will need an extra add-on if you want to host your email on Cloudways. For now I use Siteground to host my emails.

Installing WordPress on Cloudways is really easy. You can read my Cloudways Review to learn more about it, which in there it has a better step by step of how to install WordPress on Cloudways with Vultr High Frequency.

Full article at: Vultr High Frequency Review 2021 – Fastest & Cheapest WordPress Hosting