Does your website have any dead-ends? What about hidden content? Is each page getting the attention it deserves? How sure are you, really? These things matter: making your content findable for users and crawlable for Google is essential for SEO. So it’s time to give your site some TLC and clean your content up! Just […]

If you want your pages to rank high in the search engines you need to keep your website fit. One way to keep your site in shape is to clean it up regularly; get rid of old, outdated content, and brush up those hidden gems you might have forgotten about, and put them in the […]

90% of Instagram users follow at least one business account and 83% of people discover new products through their Instagram feed.  Amassing a large following on Instagram can help you at every stage of the marketing funnel—from bolstering brand awareness to driving conversions.    In this post, we’ll walk you through how to use Instagram to […]

Small businesses are often leaner than most since the most minute expense can make a difference to survival. As competition grows and costs creep up, maximizing value is at the top of everyone’s focus list. Just because we’re smaller in scale doesn’t mean we need to cover fewer areas than larger businesses. Small businesses have […]

Editorial notes: This article is originally written by Gina on September 2013. We have edited it dozen times in the past to make sure that it remains valid.  This is normally how a newbie starts a blog: they would write about their work on Monday, hobbies on Tuesday, movies they have watched on Wednesday, and […]

Incognito Mode is a setting that prevents your browsing history from being stored. Whilst many users associate incognito mode solely with the private browsing feature of Google Chrome, the more general term is actually private browsing.  What is Private Browsing? Private browsing comes as a standard feature on most browsers today – the most recognized […]

If there’s one job that’s easy to pick up with no prior experience or education at all, it’s web development. You can get started right now, and in a few weeks or months of study and practice, you’ll have a working understanding of how to develop a website. Try a free demo The trouble is […]

What a treat to experience three days of deep learning at MozCon Virtual 2021 with some of the world’s most respected digital marketing professionals. While only one of the sessions was specifically focused on local business strategy, it’s my local SEO bias to see everything through that lens. I took pages of notes of tips […]

​​It doesn’t matter what sort of SaaS platform you’re running. It is likely to break down if you do not pay close attention to its UX and UI. So, it is essential to look into all the key aspects before stepping into the next level of the designing process.  Another most important aspect of designing […]

A great web hosting for your business website… …should have stable uptime / speed performance, reasonable pricing, and features (built-in POS, email host, etc) that ease up or help your business to grow. At the top of my list – A2 Hosting, is the best web host for most small business owners. Compare Small Business […]

Welcome back to Whiteboard Friday! In today’s episode, guest host and small business SEO expert Claire Carlile walks you through the what, why, where, and how of UTM tagging for your GMB profiles. Editor’s note: Beginning at 1:49, when Claire mentions “referral traffic”, it should be “referral information”.  Click on the whiteboard image above to open a […]

If you’ve poked around the WordPress backend, you may have noticed a setting that says “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” and wondered what it meant. Try a free demo Or maybe you’re looking for a way to hide your site from unwanted visitors and wondering if this one little checkbox is enough to […]

App automation can remove bottlenecks, save time and money, help you provide a better customer experience, and improve internal collaboration. But it should never replace the human touch.  In this article, we’ll show you how to leverage app automation to produce desired results and reclaim productivity. We’ll also explore examples to apply across the customer […]

The post How to Secure a Website from Hackers [13-Step Guide] appeared first on HostGator. As a website owner, is there anything more terrifying than the thought of seeing all of your work altered or entirely wiped out by a nefarious hacker? We see data breaches and hacks in the news all the time. And […]

How does a new website start ranking? Does it just magically appear in Google after you’ve launched it? What things do you have to do to start ranking in Google and get traffic from the search engines? Here, I explain the first steps you’ll need to take right after the launch of your new website. […]

Content audits: the brief report generated as part of your pitching process and then forgotten about, or perhaps a small section of your broader SEO audit. These two words will mean different things to different marketers, and the time you assign to this project will also vary depending on how much value you put into […]

Why is SEO so important? And why will SEO continue to be important in the future? Isn’t it much easier to advertise in order to attract traffic to your website? In this blog post, I will explain the importance of SEO. I will also dive into the differences between SEO vs Pay Per Click advertising […]

Hi! I’m Dan! I think the SEO discipline is a research based discipline. One of my favorite concepts is Garbage In, Garbage Out (GIGO), which I’m going to link to rather then explain but I still expect you to read it!  Since bad data begets bad research begets bad tactics begets bad outcomes, I think […]

When the WordPress block editor, or Gutenberg, launched in December 2018, we didn’t know what to expect. Sure, we’d had plenty of time to play around with its beta version, but we couldn’t predict how smoothly the actual launch would go or how eager users and developers would embrace the new editor. Try a free […]

Note: This is part 2 of my A-to-Z affiliate marketing guide; also check out my Part 1 Affiliate Business Explained where I discussed about different models in affiliate marketing business. Before you jump right into the affiliate marketing business, it’s essential to have the right mindset. Many people look at successful affiliate sites and imagine […]