Web Hosting Plans Built by SEO Experts Your web hosting company can affect your SEO. We have known that since we opened our doors in 1998. After many frustrating experiences with big box web hosts, in 1999 we decided to build our own hosting platform that would support our web design business and why it makes …
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New Year’s Day always brings with it resolutions. As business owners, we often have a set of business resolutions for an upcoming year. But do you include your marketing, and specifically your Digital Marketing? Wherever you are in your digital marketing journey, start it or strengthen it by making sure you have the fundamentals in …
5 New Year Resolutions for Digital Marketing Success in 2022 Read More »
As you may or may not have heard, there is a serious issue with Windows 10 and ACTWD would like to remind all of our clients to make sure if you are running windows 10 to make sure you have updated your computer this week. If your computer does auto updates, you are in good …
I received a client email that was riddled with misinformation someone had told them regarding SSL. This post has been on my mind for a long time and this seemed to give me the perfect opportunity. This also a timely topic with hacking being in the news and Google losing yet another 2+ Billion lawsuits …
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 …
Why Buying Negative Domains Puts Your Brand on Offense Read More »
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 …
The Value of a Domain: To Redeem, To Sell, To the Brand Read More »
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 …
Building for Speed: WordPress, The Web Host and Cache Read More »
I often read articles about what it takes to be successful at SEO. Content, Links, and Social are all the usual suspects. But the one thing that is constantly overlooked is a sound technical understanding. And I think this is where many SEOs are lacking, and to me the one benchmark that often shines …
There is a new disease emerging in the web design world. It affects web designers, who through the power of WordPress, makes them look like programmers. It’s called Plug-initus, or the over use of plug-ins on a website. Fortunately there is a cure. First let me say we love WordPress and are one of the most knowledgable …
