Beth Guide

Beth Guide, owner of Vertical Web, is a leader in SEO Web Design, Web Hosting and Digital Marketing. She is a well known public speaker and technology expert in Houston. She also works with with University of Houston Bauer College of Business, Houston Community College for Entrepreneurship, the Houston West Chamber of Commerce, and the Northwest Houston Chamber as well as being a Fox26 correspondent for technology.

Why Buying Negative Domains Puts Your Brand on Offense

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

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Building a Bikini-less Profile: How to Do LinkedIn Right

It seems that maybe LinkedIn has finally arrived. I know. I know thatโ€™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 itโ€™s

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The Value of a Domain: To Redeem, To Sell, To the Brand

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

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HubSpot Can Solve All Your SEO Needs! Yeah Rightโ€ฆโ€ฆโ€ฆ

OK ok Hubspot is great! If you know how to use it that is plus itโ€™s a totally different kind of marketing platform, then most people are used to but letโ€™s not dwell on HubSpot I really donโ€™t want to talk just about them but other platforms that promise they will do all the SEO

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Why Everyone Needs a Backup Plan For Their Website

The concept seems so simple, doesnโ€™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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Building for Speed: WordPress, The Web Host and Cache

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, itโ€™s not usually a web hosting problem as first presented to us. (โ€˜Google says my site is slow. Fix my hostingโ€) Most times itโ€™s

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