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Are your emails going to spam?
Have you noticed an uptick in email delivery problems? To make sure your emails always reach your customers, and don’t end up in their spam folders, there are some new settings that need to be added to your domain. What changed that caused more emails to go to spam? Beginning in February 2024, email providers…
Read MoreManaged Hosting for WordPress
I’ve been a fan of managed WordPress hosting since I started developing websites many years ago. Many people see ads for hosting that costs a couple of bucks a month and think that’s what it should cost. Unfortunately, those ultra-cheap hosting services come with slimmed down shared resources and little to no security. Because WordPress…
Read MoreLocal Listing Management
Local listing management has long been on my radar. It’s only recently that I’ve found a service that I think does it right, for a reasonable price. Many services will clean up your listings, but require you to keep paying in order for their changes to remain published (how do they get away with that?),…
Read MoreAdd a Manager to Google Business Page
An optimized Google My Business Page is crucial to your business’ visibility; if you don’t know how to set it up, you may need to add a Manager to Google My Business so someone else can help you. Having a Google My Business Page is one of the most important things you can do to get…
Read MoreTechnology Products I Love
Anyone who knows me knows that I don’t buy anything without thoroughly researching it. It’s annoying, really. Part of being a geek is getting excited about new products available to help make my life easier. Most people hate change, I love change! Learning new ways to do my job makes it interesting, and sometimes those…
Read MoreSetup Instagram Business Profile
Instagram is quickly becoming a powerful social media platform, with over 100 million users* in the US alone! Take advantage of this huge user base and set up an Instagram Business Profile. This allows you to add all of the relevant details about your business. To get started, you’ll need to have already set up…
Read MoreThe Latest in Off Page SEO
I try my best to keep up with the latest in SEO tools and techniques, and with that in mind, signed up for some free SEO webinars from iThemes and my favorite SEO Expert, Rebecca Gill from Web-Savvy-Marketing. They really have one of the best, easy to understand, SEO blogs out there. The most recent webinar discussed…
Read MoreThe Most Important Thing You Can Do to Show up in Search Results
More Important than a Website I create websites for a living and I love it, but when someone asks me what the most important thing to do to get your business to show up in search results is, my answer isn’t to create a website. Your number one priority should be to claim and complete all…
Read MoreBest Image Sizes for Social Media
Thanks to the ever changing landscape of social media, it can be confusing to figure out the best image sizes for social media posts. If you don’t use the right image size you could end up with cropping that eliminates part of your text or cuts the heads off of your subjects! Sharing an image…
Read MoreSearch Engine Optimization Checklist
If you’ve struggled with getting traffic to your website using SEO suggestions from all over the web, you might have wished for a simple Search Engine Optimization Checklist to make your life easier. Search engine optimization, or SEO for short is the process of making your website more attractive to the Search Engines, like Google…
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