Google My Business What it is, How it Affects Your Website in Search Results and How to Set up Yours NOTICE: Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, Google has temporarily restricted service and has altered or removed certain features mentioned in the following post. Ever wondered how to use Google My Business to grow YOUR [...]
Wix vs. WordPress vs. Squarespace: Which Online Website Builder is Best For SEO? If you are grappling with which online website builder platform to use, you may want to consider SEO as a leading criterion. When it comes to website platforms, there are distinct differences—especially when it comes to their ability to rank in search [...]
6 Common Contact Page Mistakes and How to Avoid Them Are you making unintended but deadly contact page mistakes? Your contact page might be the shortest page on your site, but it’s certainly one of the most important. Think about it... The whole reason your website exists is to get people to contact you. While [...]
Broken Site Links: The True CostIf you have broken site links, it’s time to reclaim “link juice” and brush up your website’s user experience.Broken links, also known as dead links or link rots, are hyperlinks on a website that point to a web page that no longer exists on the Internet. These pages can be [...]
7 Steps to Developing a Strategically Sound Small Business Website Sonoma County website design specialist Tim Smith outlines the 7-step process his team uses to build small business websites that attract and convert customers. As a certified marketing consultant, I see web design as a strategic process. Your website is probably the most important marketing [...]
How Long Should a Blog Post Be? Considering a blog to boost your online marketing presence? Good move. Blogging can help position you as the expert you are in your field, which builds credibility. Plus, well—optimized blog posts provide search engine optimization (SEO) to lift your presence in search results. I am always asked, “how [...]
How to Make Related Youtube Videos Disappear! Ever wanted to hide related Youtube videos on your website? Boy, you are not alone! If you are a website owner and have any videos on your website, chances are they are Youtube videos. And, if you ever noticed what happens when your video stops playing, it’s not [...]
Four Strategies to Optimize Your Site for Voice Search When Siri was launched as a virtual assistant for the iPhone back in 2008, its natural-language user interface was far from perfect. It was a brand-new concept after all. Over the years, however, Apple’s Siri and other machine learning-backed voice recognition technologies such as Google’s Assistant, [...]
Web Page Loading Speed: What Will Your Website Speed Test Show? What the heck is web page loading speed? Most small business owners don’t know much about it. Yet, you should know what page loading speed is. More importantly, you should know how it impacts the flow of visitors to your website. Why? Faster websites [...]
Email Deliverability: How to Avoid Having Yours Tagged as Spam Do you send emails to clients or customers? Even more, do you rely on email marketing as a part of your online strategy (as you should)? If so, chances are you've been struck by the same dreadful thought most online marketers have when looking at [...]
