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
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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
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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
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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
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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? As a digital marketer, I should not need to explain what a Millenial is. Or, more than likely you
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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
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I’m going to bury the lead in the story, so hang with me. Everywhere I go, the art of the English language seems to be slipping into the abyss. Autocorrect, Texting among others, all appear to be co-opting an art form. We even received an envelope back from the Chicago Post Office. From what we
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So I started out today like any other normal day. Got up, looked over our sites. I talked to a few customers. Had a meeting over our new logo and then logged into webmaster tools. Eh or should I say Search Console. I went to one of my favorite places to identify issues with a website, Content
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So you know how I’m always telling you that our email box leads to a lot of my greatest inspirations. I had that happen yesterday so I want to share. Its interesting to me how clients perceive what we do for them. Admittedly, we are very much out of the mainstream in that, I don’t
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