Getting a Boost in Rankings? The big news in the SEO world recently was that Google posted information stating that having your website set up with secure URLs ("https" not "http" website addresses in the browser address bar), that you'd get a boost in rankings. We reported on that here: Simple Way to Rank Higher […]
SEO: Your Website and Content Honestly, I've blogged about website content and SEO a lot. Yeah, a lot. But I found an article that's really good that I wanted to get to you guys. It's as if I wrote it. I completely agree with it and I know it's something our clients need to hear […]
Believe it or not, we get a lot of these email offers for cheap/affordable website design, too. I think I've done a good job setting up filters in my email and running a teachable spam filter but these emails sometimes get through. I decided to not junk one of them this morning and take a […]
Easy Way to Get an Edge Over Your Competition It's not every day that Google mentions a way to rank higher but they just did. If your website uses SSL certificates (https / security), Google will rank your website a little bit higher. They're actually telling everyone this: HTTPS as a ranking signal (googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com) For […]
How Many Characters/Words Should be in the Title Tag of a Page? I was doing some research today to check what the latest SEO findings are related to how many characters should be in the title tag of a web page - meaning, what is the character limit that you don't want to go over. […]
Why You Need to Worry About Your Website Having Responsive Web Design I've said it before - there is literally a "Web Gold Rush" going on right now. If you know your history, you know about the Gold Rush and how people were dropping what they were doing to get out West and go digging […]
Website Content Not Up to Google's Standards There's a "thin content" penalty (slap) going around. If you happened to receive that, then it means that Google doesn't favor the content your posting on your website. You can fix it and then resubmit your website. Finish your facepalm and then read on. 🙂 Google's Warning Email […]
Let's Talk Email for a Minute OK, just sort of a toungue in cheek reminder here... Everyone at your company using email for your domain name to do business needs to have an email signature set up. Practically every email program or service out there lets you do this. It's so that people can contact […]
Team Website Development I just worked with one of our team members and we talked about how to make sure certain pages on websites are not indexed by search engines. Yes, that's a thing... there are certain pages on website that you don't want search engines to index as results and send people to. This […]
Google Tag Manager and Universal Google Analytics Here's more good information about using Google Tag Manager and the newest version of Google Analytics, called Universal Analytics. Both of these tools are great to use. Google Tag Manager helps you manage snippets of tracking code on your website's pages and Universal Analytics can help you gather […]
