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Posts
Brand Building
- Differentiating Your Business From The Competition
- Establishing A Brand: Forging Your Own Path
- Finding Your Business Voice
- The Long Path To Becoming A Thought Leader
- Why I Don’t Worry About Plagiarism
Business Strategy and Entrepreneurship
- “Will You Build My Site For Equity?”
- 2013 Year in Review
- 2014 Year In Review
- 2015 Year In Review
- 2016 Year in Review
- 2017 Year in Review
- 2018 Year in Review
- 2019 Year in Review
- 2020 Year in Review
- Article Discussion: The Future of the Digital Design Agency
- Balancing Business, Creative and Technical Skills
- Don’t Stop Marketing When You’re Already Busy
- Focus on Top-Line Revenue, Not Cutting Costs
- Get Punched In The Face, Get Back Up
- Getting Help From People In Your Industry
- Gratitude For The Grind (Any Audience Is Amazing)
- Ideas Are Worthless, Execution Is Everything
- Learning When To Say No
- Lessons from Canlis for the Web Industry
- Listening Is a Competitive Advantage
- Reassuring Clients: Knowing How They Feel
- Sell Solutions, Not Services
- Setting Clear Expectations For Work Performance
- Should You Join Your Local Chamber of Commerce?
- Small Beginnings: The Gift of Persistence
- Technicians vs Professionals
- The End of Agency Siloing: Collaboration Between Web Agencies
- Think Big
- Time: An Entrepreneur’s Most Valuable Resource
- Value Pricing vs Cost Based Pricing
- What Makes Your Business Unique?
- What’s Your Point Of Differentiation?
- Who Is Your Perfect Customer?
- Why Multitasking Hurts Your Productivity
- Working With Design Clients: A New Philosophy
- You Don’t Have To Do It All Yourself
E-Commerce
- Calculating Shipping Costs In WooCommerce
- Change Add To Cart Text In WooCommerce
- Change Proceed To Checkout Text In WooCommerce
- Change Currency Display in WooCommerce
- Change Proceed To PayPal Checkout Text in WooCommerce
- Change Return To Shop Link In WooCommerce
- Do You Need To Pay Sales Tax On E-commerce Stores?
- How To Change Place Order Text In WooCommerce Checkout
- Shared Hosting Won’t Cut It For Your E-commerce Site
- Should You Use Free Shipping On Your eCommerce Site?
- Styling WooCommerce Review Stars
- What Is VAT Tax? How Does It Affect Your Online Store?
- WooCommerce 2.5: Add SKU On New Order Email
Marketing
- A Great Product Is Not Enough
- A Tale of Two Companies
- Content Marketing is the New Advertising
- Don’t Rely On Referrals For Revenue
- Good Ideas Still Have To Be Sold
- How To Track MailChimp Clicks in Google Analytics
- Offline And Online Marketing Are Both Important
- Seven Business Lessons From Pro Wrestling
- Should You Depend on a Social Network to be Your Content Platform?
- Social Proof: Why We Want It, Why It Works
- Steps To Prevent Your Customer Base From Disappearing
- Storytelling In Marketing: The Hero’s Journey
- Talking YouTube Marketing on the Honest eCommerce Show
- The Cold, Hard Truth About Lead Generation
- The Long, Creative History of Content Marketing
- There Are No Gatekeepers
- Three Marketing Truths From The Movie Birdman
- Using MailChimp To Build An Email List
- Utilizing Email Marketing To Grow Your Business
- Why You Don’t Need Business Network Referral Groups
- Why You Need To Build An Email List — Today
- Why You Should Own Your Content Platform
- Why Your Website is Important
- Your Website Isn’t “Field of Dreams”
- YouTube Hashtags: What You Need To Know
Press Releases
SEO
- “How Much SEO Boost Does a Mobile-Friendly Site Give You?”
- “If I Link to Competitors, Will it Hurt My SEO?”
- “We Have 100 Google Reviews, But We’re Not in the 3-Pack Map?”
- 11 Manufacturing and Industrial Directories for SEO
- 3 Things Manufacturing Companies Must Understand About SEO
- 3 Ways to Optimize Images for SEO
- 301 Redirects and SEO
- 5 Common SEO Questions
- Are Directories Still Good For SEO?
- Back Links and SEO
- Can You Do SEO Without Paid Tools?
- Citations For Local SEO
- Content Marketing Positions You As An Industry Expert
- Content Planning for Your Website
- Create Great Content and You’ll Get Links: Truth or Fiction?
- Creating A Content Publishing Calendar
- Did the Google Search Quality Raters Visit Your Site?
- Did Your Keyword Rankings Drop? Rethinking The Ranking Algorithm
- Do WordPress Tags Help SEO?
- Does Adding Text To E-Commerce Category Pages Help SEO?
- Does Author Expertise Help SEO? The Truth About E-A-T
- Does Brand Recognition Affect SEO?
- Does Buying Extra Domain Names Help SEO?
- Does Valid HTML Affect SEO?
- Dublin Core Markup: Specialized Structured Data
- Everyone Wants SEO, (Almost) No One Wants To Do The Work
- Find The Most Important Pages On Your Website
- Flash Websites Downgraded In Search Results
- Google “Penalties” Don’t Always Work How You Think
- Google Analytics SEO & Google Search Console SEO
- Google Announces June 2019 Core Update
- Google BERT Update: Understanding Search Queries More Effectively
- Google Changing URL Display in Mobile Search Results
- Google December 2020 Core Update Rolls Out
- Google Does Not Use Webspam Reports for Manual Penalties
- Google Needs to Crawl CSS and JS Files on WordPress Sites
- Google Tests Warning Label For Slow Loading Sites
- High Impressions, Low Clicks and Few Leads: How To Fix It?
- How Does Google Know Users Are Satisfied With a Web Page?
- How Does Quality Content Affect SEO?
- How Might Google Define “Good” Content?
- How Reviews and Reputation Affect Local SEO
- How To 301 Redirect a PDF in WordPress for SEO
- How To Choose a SEO Company
- How To Do a SEO Audit
- How To Get Your Business on Google Maps
- How To Improve Your Ranking In Local SEO
- How To Leave a Google Review on iPhone
- How to See What Tags a YouTube Video Is Using (2021)
- Increase Search Engine Visibility In One Step
- Is a Location Page or Home Page Better for Your GMB URL?
- Is Design Important For SEO? You Bet It Is.
- Know Your Customers for SEO
- Know Your End Goal for SEO Campaigns
- Local SEO Tip: Geo Sitemap Generator
- Local SEO Tools: BrightLocal.com
- Nineteen Ways To Get Back Links For SEO
- Non Mobile-Friendly Websites Facing Judgement Day
- Presentation: Deep Dive on SEO (for Nevada County Online)
- Prevent Google From Crawling Old Sitemaps
- Running A Successful SEO Campaign
- Searcher Intent and SEO: The Invisible Ranking Factor
- SEO Is A Long Term Process
- SEO Keyword Research: Finding Keywords that Will Drive Traffic
- SEO Tip: One Page, One Search Phrase
- Setting Your Service Area on Google My Business
- Should You Change the Publish Date of a Post for SEO?
- Should You Pay For a Wikipedia Article?
- Single Page Website SEO: Can I Rank for Multiple Search Terms?
- Star Ratings for LocalBusiness Schema Disappearing From SERPs?
- The Best Time To Create Content
- The Biggest Misconception in SEO
- The Case For Content Marketing
- The Future of SEO Is A Strong Brand
- The Guide to SEO Friendly URLs
- The Meta Description and It’s Role in SEO
- The Truth About SEO and Sales
- The Truth About Slow Web Pages
- The Ultimate Guide to Google Review Stars
- Three Things That Make Client SEO Easy
- Title Tag SEO: Optimizing Titles For Better Ranking
- Topically Relevant Back Links and SEO
- Understanding Schema.org Structured Data
- Use SEO and AdWords Together For More Web Traffic
- Using Google Natural Language API to Analyze Content
- Using HARO for SEO Backlinks
- Using Microformats for Structured Data
- Website Content Audits
- What Is SEO?
- What Local SEO Tactics Should Make You Wary?
- What To Do When Your Best Content Isn’t Ranking
- What You Need To Know About Mobile-First Indexing
- Why AdWords Shouldn’t Be Your Long Term Strategy
- Why Are Businesses With No Website in the Google 3-Pack Map?
- Why Creating More Content Will Improve Your Search Traffic
- Why Google Added Favicons to Search Results
- Why Google Rewrites Your Titles and Descriptions in Search Results
- Why Green Dots in Yoast Aren’t Moving Your Rankings
- Yelp Not Recommended Reviews: Understanding the Yelp Review Filter
- Your UPS Store Address May Disappear From Google Maps
Social Media
- Getting Social Icons in Google’s Knowledge Graph
- How To Add A Facebook Like Box To Your Website
- How To Verify Your Facebook Page
- Social Media Colors 2020
- The Most Common Social Media Mistakes
- Using Twitter For Small Business Lead Generation
- Why Your Facebook Pages Have Less Reach Than Before
Web Design
- 5 Reasons For A Website Redesign
- 9 Things You Need to Know Before Hiring a Web Design Agency
- Add A Map Marker To Google Maps Embedded iFrame
- Adding Custom Styles To Google Maps
- Adding Print Style Sheets
- Avoiding Stock Photography Cliches
- Best Practices For Call To Action Buttons
- Build A Quiz In PHP: What Metal Band Are You?
- Change the Bullet Color of a List Item with CSS
- Code Highlighting via Prism.js
- Consistent Communication Produces Great Web Projects
- Content First Web Design
- Create A CSS Sticky Footer
- CSS: Using :nth-of-type() To Style Repeating Items
- Dealing With Client Change Orders
- Design And Creativity Are Not The Same
- Details Matter
- Do Image Sliders Work For Web Conversions?
- Don’t Use Google Images On Your Website
- Embed YouTube Videos Without Competitor Videos At The End
- Favor The Long Road: Ongoing Client Relationships
- Gathering Website Content Early Produces Successful Projects
- Get Your Web Developer Involved From The Beginning
- Good Website Design Requires An Investment
- How Does Your Agency Measure the ROI of a Website Redesign?
- How Much Should You Budget For Your Website?
- How To Customize Styles On Livefyre Comments
- How To Flush Your Page Cache
- How To Make A YouTube Video Embed Autoplay On Page Load
- How To Responsively Rearrange Elements With CSS
- HTML: Give Parent Div 100% Height Of Child Floated Elements
- It Takes Three Legs To Make A Table Stand
- Load Google Fonts Asynchronously For Page Speed
- Mobile First Web Design
- Ordered Lists With A Different Color For Numbers
- Planning For Client Training
- Providing Value By Referring Other Developers
- Quality Assurance and Testing are Necessary for Great Websites
- Questions Your Web Designer Will Ask You
- Responsive YouTube Videos in WordPress
- Site Builders vs WordPress
- Solved: Firefox Font Weight Renders Too Bold
- Styling the Select Element Consistently in HTML
- Talking Content First Strategy on Rethink.fm
- Target Safari 7.1 and 8.0 CSS Styles (OSX Yosemite)
- The Importance of Web Design Ethics to Real-World Projects
- There Are No Clients From Hell
- Trust Is The Key To Great Web Design Projects
- Using Adobe Color (Kuler) for Web Design
- Web Design Discovery Helps Solve Business Problems
- Web Design Research Creates Successful Projects
- Web Development Projects Require Overcommunication
- Webkit Bug Fix: Slider Causes Font Weights To Change On Page
- What Is A Domain Name?
- What Makes a Design Portfolio Effective?
- What Makes A Website Design Good?
- What to Look for in a Web Designer
- What Web Design Clients Value More Than Anything
- When Chrome Print Preview Differs From DevTools View
- Why Does Web Hosting Matter?
- Why I Don’t Bill Hourly On Large Projects
- Why I Don’t Respond To RFPs
- Why Responsive Design Matters
- Why Some Remote Teams Succeed, and Others Fail
- Why You Should Be Gathering Web Content Early
- Why You Should Invest In Web Design Retainers
- WordPress Developers: Labels Don’t Matter, Results Do
WordPress
- Add A HTML Sitemap To Your WordPress Site
- Add Advanced Custom Field To RSS Feed In WordPress
- Add an Options Page with ACF (Advanced Custom Fields)
- Add CSS Class To Single Post Based on Category In WordPress
- Add CSS Classes To Menu Items In WordPress
- Add Edit Profile Link In bbPress
- Add Featured Image To RSS Feed In WordPress
- Add Manual Exceprts to Pages in WordPress
- Add Name Attribute To Contact Form 7
- Add New Fields To WordPress User Profiles
- Automatically Change The Copyright Year In WordPress
- bbPress: Add Forums, Topics & Replies to Search Results
- Best Managed WordPress Hosting Companies
- Better Ways To Check Broken Links In WordPress
- Building a Contact Page In WordPress With Contact Form 7
- Businesses Should Own Their WordPress Plugin Licenses
- Create A Custom Post Type RSS Feed In WordPress
- Custom Excerpt Length In WordPress
- Dates and Times In WordPress
- Fix Contact Form 7 Configuration Errors
- Fix Contact Form 7 Emails Going To Spam In Gmail
- Fix Redirect Loop on WordPress Install
- Get the URL of a Featured Image in WordPress
- How Long Does It Take To Make A Custom WordPress Theme?
- How Much Does Website Maintenance Cost?
- How To Add Dynamic Sidebars To WordPress
- How To Create A Custom WordPress Login Page
- How To Find A Quality WordPress Developer
- How To Improve Page Speed In WordPress
- Importing Large XML Files in WordPress with WXR Splitter
- Increase Maximum File Upload Size In WordPress
- Infinite Scroll With WordPress Custom Post Types
- Installing WordPress Without A Domain Name
- Integrating Google AMP and WordPress
- Making A Sticky Blog Post in WordPress
- Managing Images in WordPress
- Output Taxonomies List for Custom Post Type by Post ID
- Plugins That Integrate MailChimp With WordPress
- Replace the_excerpt Ellipsis With Custom Link in WP
- Repost Old Content To Social Media From WordPress
- Should You Hire a WordPress Consultant or Freelancer?
- Strong Passwords in WordPress
- Styling Radio Buttons in Gravity Forms
- The Dangers Of Cowboy Coding
- Using A Child Theme In WordPress Development
- Using Kraken.io For WordPress Image Optimization
- Using The More Tag In WordPress
- Using WordPress Custom Admin Styles
- Using WordPress SEO by Yoast for Sitemaps
- What Happened To Google Analytics by Yoast?
- When FTP Uploads Are Not Visible in WP Media Library
- Why Bundling WordPress Plugins In Themes is Risky
- Why You Need Automated Backups of Your Website
- WordCamp Sacramento 2015 Slides: iThemes Security
- WordPress Website Migration Checklist
- WordPress: Harder Than You Think
- WP-Tonic: Page Speed, Theme Marketplaces, Frameworks
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Case Studies
- Case Studies
- Raptor Blasting Systems
- Classic Muscle
- SEO for Contract Manufacturing Company
- Painting Contractor in Major US City
- Saugatuck Rowing & Fitness Club
- Bud Bar Displays
- Industrial Air Filtration, Inc.
- ETTI