Make Your Website Load Faster With One, Simple Change I was looking at a client's website today and noticed something that would help it load faster. This client manages DNS and their hosting themselves. If we were managing it, I would have just taken care of it without bothering her. Here's an excerpt of the […]
Good, Fast or Cheap? When looking for website design, do you want good, fast or cheap? You can only pick 2 of the 3, so which do you want? I found an article that dovetails on what I wrote the other day here: How Does the Website Design Process Work? (webstix.com) If you want a […]
What is Author Rank and how does it differ from Google Authorship? There has been a lot of talk about Google removing the Google Authorship images from search results. We at Webstix have closely monitored the changes and behavior of Google Authorship and Author Rank on search from the start. We have even shared how […]
"How Quickly Can a Website be Made?" With every project we get, we're always asked how soon it can be done. This is a tough question to answer usually - not that we don't know... we know. The tough part is explaining how it'll take time and see how a client might look disappointed when […]
Let's Take Another Look at Responsive and SEO As you may know, a website using responsive design (click to find out more) works well on whatever device it's being viewed on because it responds to the screen size of the device. This is in contrast with adaptive website design, which most people know as a […]
What Information Should be on a Website? Big announcement! Your home page isn't special. Yeah, that's right... it's just another page. Sure, it's a page that's linked to a lot and it's a page that most business owners send people to but if you look at your website traffic, most people are not starting on […]
Getting a Boost in Rankings? The big news in the SEO world recently was that Google posted information stating that having your website set up with secure URLs ("https" not "http" website addresses in the browser address bar), that you'd get a boost in rankings. We reported on that here: Simple Way to Rank Higher […]
SEO: Your Website and Content Honestly, I've blogged about website content and SEO a lot. Yeah, a lot. But I found an article that's really good that I wanted to get to you guys. It's as if I wrote it. I completely agree with it and I know it's something our clients need to hear […]
Believe it or not, we get a lot of these email offers for cheap/affordable website design, too. I think I've done a good job setting up filters in my email and running a teachable spam filter but these emails sometimes get through. I decided to not junk one of them this morning and take a […]
Easy Way to Get an Edge Over Your Competition It's not every day that Google mentions a way to rank higher but they just did. If your website uses SSL certificates (https / security), Google will rank your website a little bit higher. They're actually telling everyone this: HTTPS as a ranking signal (googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com) For […]
