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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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 concept seems so simple, doesn’t it? Backup your website. Â 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. Â 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
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I have been teaching Houston SEO for over a decade and I always said I would not do one particular thing. Well today I relented and I officially think this might be okay. So what did I do?  I streamed my class live via Periscope. I did it for a few reasons. But first let me
Trying to retrain customers might be as hard as training Harley, my 9-year-old Dachshund. There are a lot of similarities too.  Neither understands that I tell them no not because I’m a big meanie, but because what they are wanting to do will hurt them. Sometimes they do things and try to sneak it by me because
I got this question from one of my students.  It was a question where  I could just reply “Yes,” or I could seize an opportunity.  At its core it’s a web design question, but also has pretty deep implications for SEO if done properly. So here is the challenge. He has a long bulleted list
I got an interesting email this week while trying to solve the great logo debate that went on within our company. The question was why do we care what the Millenials think all of a sudden? Â As a digital marketer, I should not need to explain what a Millenial is. Or, more than likely you
I always say my customers make the absolute best blog ideas and the best training experiences for the minions. Case in point, one of our very old customers called me today to tell me that their site isn’t ranking any longer and wanted to know why. Now they on and off had employed us to
