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Google Business Profile | Local Search | Marketing |

Use Your Google Business Profile in Your Holiday Season Marketing

November 21, 2021

As the leaves fall and the temperatures drop, we move into the holiday season. For many businesses this part of the year is crucial to their bottom line. Changing operating hours can be confusing for the public. Under normal circumstances, using your Google Business Profile to keep your customers informed is smart. If your hours are

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Google | Google Business Profile | Local Search |

Google My Business Becomes Google Business Profile

November 10, 2021

Google is changing the name of its business profile management system from Google My Business to Google Business Profile. Google stated that its intent behind this change is “to keep things simple” and to extract more of the business profile from the GMB app and insert it directly into Google Search, Google Maps and other

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SEO | Website Building |

Why Is Site Structure Important?

September 27, 2021

When companies design or update their websites, most often the focus is on how the website will look, in terms of layout or images. Frequently overlooked in the process is the site’s underlying structure. Site structure is important for user experience and, as such, improving it will impact a website’s SEO and increase traffic and

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Website Building | Website Design |

Page Builders… How Did We Get Here?

September 8, 2021

Though the web has only recently celebrated its 30th birthday, designers and developers have seen a number of revivals in terms of web page construction and maintenance. For the curious or nostalgic, here’s a quick timeline of milestones in the life of web design: Early 1990’s The first publishing language of the Web was introduced:

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Digital Advertising | SEO |

Why You Need SEO and SEM Now!

August 17, 2021

In 2020 with all of the challenges COVID-19 threw our way, every business looked to their website to communicate with their customers for a number of reasons. They needed to let them know their updated hours, product updates and availability, any new policies with regards to the pandemic, and, most notably, they needed to market.

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Google | Google Business Profile | Local Search |

What Does the Google Page Experience Update Mean for Your Website?

July 16, 2021

Very soon Google will have completed its update of Page Experience. This update began in mid-June, and the tech giant expects it to be fully operational by the end of August. Google began preparing the public in advance so they would have time to make adjustments to their websites to avoid experiencing problems with their

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Content | Local Search | SEO |

Six Important SEO Factors to Consider

July 3, 2021

For the most part, SEO has been based on the same principles and methods. However, all of those principles and methods have been refined and altered again and again by Google’s algorithm updates. So, which SEO factors are most important now and which will stay important for the foreseeable future? SEO is a lot like

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Graphic Design | Website Design |

Stock Photography 101

June 23, 2021

Recently I shared some information about the many file formats for digital imagery. If you missed it, check out The Alphabet Soup of Image File Formats. Today, I’ll share some industry secrets about where you can find these file types for use in your digital marketing projects – and many of them are absolutely free.

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Website Building | Website Design |

Squarespace vs. WordPress? A Primer and Cheat Sheet to Help You Decide

June 3, 2021

Hardly a website project crosses my desk without the question of, “Squarespace vs. WordPress? How should I build my website?” being asked. Let’s take a look at two of the most popular ways to build your website and the pros and cons of each. Squarespace…or, the Nissan Altima of Website Builders When I was first

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Local Search | SEO |

Claim Your Bing Places Listing

May 1, 2021

When we think of online searches, people automatically think of Google. It is true that Google has captured the largest percentage of search engine results, but Bing should not be ignored. It still gets a decent share of searches. To make sure you aren’t missing out on potential customers, you should claim the Bing Places

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