Now even Facebook is inspiring blog posts. Not because I want to write a post on social media, but they put up that silly ad for a t-shirt that reminded me all I do is talk to people all day that wants to tell me they are experts in SEO, did their own SEO so […]
10 Things People Think They Know about SEO (but don’t) Read More »
I received a client email that was riddled with misinformation someone had told them regarding SSL. This post has been on my mind for a long time and this seemed to give me the perfect opportunity. This also a timely topic with hacking being in the news and Google losing yet another 2+ Billion lawsuits
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So, this story caught my eye because of the domain registration aspect of it. The story seems at its core to be written to embarrass or implicate the President as opposed to giving business owners good sound advice. There is a definite lesson for business owners to learn from this story. The people managing the
Why Buying Negative Domains Puts Your Brand on Offense Read More »
It seems that maybe LinkedIn has finally arrived. I know. I know that’s not the case, but I have had four people ask me how to optimize their profile just this week alone. Even at a business resource committee meeting we devoted a good 10 minutes discussing Bikini-clad LinkedIn profile pictures. So, I guess it’s
Building a Bikini-less Profile: How to Do LinkedIn Right Read More »
It’s been a busy start of a new year, with a lot of weirdness. I have met a few people that wanted to tell me SEO is dead. What they really mean is SEO is way too much work for them and requires way too many components to do it right. Of course, several of these
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Every day when I come to work, my mailbox is flooded with people that have domain issues. Two years ago Tucows came to me and asked if we would help with all the problems domains out in the marketplace. To give a little back story on this, Tucows is a wholesale domain registration company, meaning
The Value of a Domain: To Redeem, To Sell, To the Brand Read More »
OK ok Hubspot is great! If you know how to use it that is plus it’s a totally different kind of marketing platform, then most people are used to but let’s not dwell on HubSpot I really don’t want to talk just about them but other platforms that promise they will do all the SEO
HubSpot Can Solve All Your SEO Needs! Yeah Right……… Read More »
Happy day after the 4th of July. I am a little late in my day with the post because everyone who was off decided to write in with questions and it’s been a get caught up from all the people that also celebrated kinda day. I received a question on Saturday as I was on my way
The Conjoined Twins: SEO and Social Media Read More »
The concept seems so simple, doesn’t it? Backup your website. In addition to web hosting, we also register domains and have been with Tucows for nearly 16 years. About two years ago they asked us if we would be willing to handle all the people that have bad web hosting companies and domain resellers that
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So this week it seemed was Google Speed week. So as both the web hosting company and the SEO company, we get a lot of how do I fix questions. Inevitably, it’s not usually a web hosting problem as first presented to us. (‘Google says my site is slow. Fix my hosting”) Most times it’s
Building for Speed: WordPress, The Web Host and Cache Read More »
