The top website and online marketing links of the week. Contact pages – not the most exciting topic, right? But so important: getting that user to get in touch with you may be the most critical conversion on your site. Here’s a great post on 25 amazing contact pages that may help you rethink the typical boring contact us page and make it something a bit more special for your users. And speaking of contact pages… should you put your phone number on your website? And do you? This article on posting phone numbers (or not) grew out of a… Continue Reading
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Weekly Links Roundup – Branding, Ecommerce, Blacklisting, SEO Meta Descriptions
The top website and marketing links for this week. If your company were a couch, what kind of couch would it be? Find out here and see if your website and marketing collateral reflects your choice – or doesn’t. If you have a large and/or very busy ecommerce site and have been wary about moving to WordPress because of some of the things you might have heard about its capabilities, check out this post about WordPress ecommerce myths. It just might put your worries to rest! Learn how to get blacklisted by Google. No – not really. Learn about the things… Continue Reading
Weekly Links Roundup – SEO, Performance, Branding
The top website and marketing links for this week. If you’re getting ready to launch a new or overhauled site for your business, here’s a handy list of 20 SEO items to check off your list prelaunch. This includes important things like: Checking the history of your domain if it’s new to you for past problems. Getting an SSL certificate so Google won’t flag your site as insecure – especially if you collect any sensitive information. Thinking about image optimization from day one instead of having to deal with resizing hundreds or thousands of images later. Checking for broken links. Next:… Continue Reading
Friday Link Wrapup – HTTPS, Color in Web Design, Branding
The top website and marketing links for this week. If you still haven’t made the switch to a mobile-friendly website, get ready – Chrome is going to start notifying users of sites that don’t use HTTPS for pages with password or credit card form fields that the site they’re on is not secure in January 2017. Users will see a red triangle next to the URL, just as they would for broken HTTPS sites. If you need help moving your site to HTTPS, contact me. If you’re thinking about a website makeover, you might want to learn more about the… Continue Reading