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Why Wix Is Bad At SEO

It has become recently fashionable in the SEO sector to kick Wix, sorry to pile on, but Wix SEO is a bit of a joke frankly and I m getting pretty annoyed with their practices and a particular YouTube campaign they are running. Wix has been bombarding me (anyone else?) with ads from Karli Kloss about [ ]

August 15, 2017Read →

Build A Free Website With Google My Business

We recently received a request from a client to migrate their old website to a new platform. We were already considering using Google Sites and after reading Mike Blumenthal s post on the number of sites created with Google My Business we decided to check out this new feature to see if it is worth recommending [ ]

August 2, 2017Read →

Fetch as Google: Seeing Your Website as Google Sees It

Users of webmaster tools can see how Google crawls and renders their URLs with the assistance of the “Fetch as Google” tool. Working the same as Googlebot, the tool enables users to check for issues such as blocked resources and to verify that Google is able to render dynamic content correctly to play a role [ ]

March 1, 2017Read →

How To Do Keyword Research

Keyword research to target searches that match your business goals is a key step in developing an online marketing strategy.

July 13, 2016Read →

Six Free Website Builders

Technically, HTML and CSS are free, you only need a text editor to create a webpage, but that only works if you know some HTML and you still need to pay for hosting. Having a website is no longer a nice extra, it is a necessity. The downside of free websites are the limitations. Most [ ]

April 26, 2016Read →

Hyphens vs Underscores

Yes, stuff like this matters. It matters because the programmers at Google designed the search engine to recognize and search for programming syntax and the underscore is common in programming languages. Google is still a dumb robot, it is getting better at understanding the intricacies of language, but it is still just a program that [ ]

September 15, 2014Read →

Is it better to have keywords in the URL path or filename?

Matt Cutts is so funny. Pretending like this isn t an important question by falling asleep. And then say one looks spammy. You card. Do what makes sense and is easy for you and your users to navigate. Same goes for sub-domains vs. folders. If you have a good reason to run a subdomain then you [ ]

October 16, 2013Read →

MediaTemple Acquired By GoDaddy

Hosting companies aren t perfect. No company is. But sometimes they are especially flawed. GoDaddy is one of those companies. It s not so much their business, it s everything else. @mediatemple @portentint just read the comments. #ouch SEO Bandwagon (@SEOBandwagon) October 15, 2013 Someone at the MediaTemple replied to me on their Twitter feed. The blog [ ]

October 16, 2013Read →

Inconsistent Data Within Google Webmaster Tools & Analytics

Secure search and keyword not provided has caused a pretty big shake up. Google s answer to the lack of keyword data in Google Analytics is to go use the data that is in Google Webmaster Tools. Ok, there s just one problem with that. Google Webmaster Tools for keyword data, 75% of impressions 85% of [ ]

October 3, 2013Read →
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