Do you collect email addresses? You’re about to start getting an error message.

If your website is not already on HTTPS instead of HTTP, any forms on your website, any and every form, will start showing error messages. Chrome is implementing, and other browsers will surely follow suit. How do you solve this? Immediately upgrade you hosting so that your site has a security certificate (SSL) and change …

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Mobile-Friendliness Update

You may have noticed that the world’s gone mobile-device crazy. I’m no exception. When I started blogging about websites, my smalllest device was my laptop. My blackberry wasn’t taking me to websites, my laptop was. What I saw back then, ten years or so ago on my laptop screen, was basically what I’m seeing now on …

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Mobile Friendly Yet?

I’ve been busy making old blogs new again, polishing and spiffing them up and getting them ready for the brave new mobile world. I will address the questions I get most often: Which businesses really need to go mobile friendly in a rush? Local businesses that need walk-ins Local service-industry businesses Any blog, or site with fresh cycling …

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What Does Too Much SEO Look Like?

There is such a thing as too much SEO, and this article covers my personal pet peeves – no one wants to visit sites with this particular problem: When Websites Don’t Provide What The Say They Will – By Jill Whalen Also covered, pages that technically drone on about the subject but don’t answer the …

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How an SEO should be vetted

SEO and Recommendations When you’re looking at hiring an SEO, the search results bring you to the big boys – the ones that a small to medium sized business cannot possibly afford, or to SEO do-it-yourself software tools (and sometimes to complex sign-up forms for systems that may or may not  integrate well into your …

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