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Coronavirus Effect On Google Ads
Coronavirus epidemic having an effect on Google Ads? Yes it is!! Online sales are undergoing an extreme change. People have changed from buying a wide assortment of items to primarily buying household items and medical [...]
WordPress Plugins Attacked!! Are Your Plugins Updated?
WordPress plugins are being attacked. Your site may be vulnerable, and you need to pay close attention to security flaws that have been recently discovered. So far 3 very popular plugins have been actively attacked [...]
Small Businesses Losing Out On 90% Of Their Customers
Up to 90% of consumers used the internet to find local business in 2019. But a lot of local businesses have lost out on these consumers because they do not have a website. According to [...]
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Coronavirus Effect On Google Ads
Coronavirus epidemic having an effect on Google Ads? Yes it is!! Online sales are undergoing an extreme change. People have changed from buying a wide assortment of items to primarily buying household items and medical [...]
WordPress Plugins Attacked!! Are Your Plugins Updated?
WordPress plugins are being attacked. Your site may be vulnerable, and you need to pay close attention to security flaws that have been recently discovered. So far 3 very popular plugins have been actively attacked [...]
Small Businesses Losing Out On 90% Of Their Customers
Up to 90% of consumers used the internet to find local business in 2019. But a lot of local businesses have lost out on these consumers because they do not have a website. According to [...]
Google event tracking code on a Wix website hyperlinked button
We deal with a lot of Wix websites. They can be very powerful with the Corvid development platform. But they can also make you pull your hair out. I spent a few hours last week [...]
Google Going To Shame Slow Sites?
At the end of last year, Google had a warning message for those owners of sites that are slow in their Chromium Blog. This blog is run by the developers of Google's Chrome browser. They [...]
Local Pest Control Goes Big With Google Ads
A local pest control company started off with a Google Ads campaign the owner managed himself. He asked me to take a look at it and see if I could improve it. I made monthly [...]
Google Ads Set This Firewood Business On Fire
A business selling firewood was in desperate need of help with advertising. He had tried radio, billboard ads, and lawn signs without much success. To solve his problem I implemented a Google Ads campaign. In [...]
Google Ads For Dental Office Left Dentist Smiling
Company had existing Google Ads campaigns but they were not preforming very well. My task was to look through the existing campaigns and see what the issues were with the under performing campaigns and make [...]
Fast Results – Google Ads Management
We just started with a group of medical experts that work with retired military personnel. Client was getting poor results from Google Ads and needed some help. The Click Through Rate (CTR) was very low, [...]
Why Doesn’t Your HTTPS Site Have A Padlock?
You have bought a SSL certificate and had it installed on your website but your site still doesn't have that padlock when you go to it in a web browser. There can be several reasons [...]
You May Need To Replace Your SSL Cert Now!
You May Need To Replace Your SSL Cert Now! HL News • March 23, 2018 If you have a SSL cert that is from Symantec, Thawte, GeoTrust or RapidSSL [...]
Chrome Browser Will List Your Site As Not Secure Without SSL In July
Chrome Browser Will List Your Site As Not Secure Without SSL In July HL News • February 28, 2018 Google has announced that it's Chrome browser will show all sites without [...]
A Couple Of Options That You May Not Know About In Google My Business
A Couple Of Options That You May Not Know About In Google My Business HL News • January 25, 2018 Google My Business has always been a great way to get [...]
Google Announces Website Speed Will Be A Larger Factor In Rankings
Google Announces Website Speed Will Be A Larger Factor In Rankings HL News • January 24, 2018 Google has just announced that your mobile sites speed will be a important [...]
Exciting News For Google Search Console Users
Exciting News For Google Search Console Users HL News • January 23, 2018 The new version of the Google Search Console should be out to everybody shortly. It looks like the [...]
WordPress 4.9 Tipton Roll Out
WordPress 4.9 Tipton Roll Out HL News • November 20, 2017 What's new in WP 4.9? Called the "Tipton" update (in honor of jazz musician and band leader Billy Tipton), WordPress has rolled [...]
Is Your Website Going To Vanish From Google Searches? Google Mobile Indexing Is Here!
Is Your Website Going To Vanish From Google Searches? Google Mobile Indexing Is Here! HL News • October 26, 2017 Google is slowly rolling out their new mobile index for searches. [...]
Will Customers Stop Filling Out Forms On Your Site? If They’re Using Chrome They Might!
Will Customers Stop Filling Out Forms On Your Site? If They're Using Chrome They Might! HL News • October 16, 2017 Today we're bringing you an update to our October 6th SSL blog [...]
Have You Heard The News? Page 1 Rankings on Google may soon Require SSL
Have You Heard The News? Page 1 Rankings on Google may soon Require SSL HL News • October 6, 2017 Google recently sent out a notification announcing that “Beginning in October [...]
Differences in Digital Marketing
Differences in Digital Marketing HL News • March 29, 2017 Do I need SEO, SEM, Local Search or maybe two or even all three? That is a great question! Each [...]
What is a SSL Certificate and why do I need it?
What is a SSL Certificate and why do I need it? HL News • March 23, 2017 A SSL certificate is a digital file used to establish a secure encrypted connection [...]
WordPress 4.4 has arrived
WordPress 4.4 has arrived HL News • December 9, 2015 WordPress 4.4 has arrived! This update to WordPress is named “Clifford” and has a new theme and a couple of new features. It [...]
10 Steps To Build Your First Website
10 Steps To Build Your First Website HL News • April 19, 2014 If you’re a little behind the times and have finally decided to jump [...]
Top 10 Security Plugins For WordPress 2014
Top 10 Security Plugins For WordPress 2014 HL News • April 14, 2014 I wrote this article as a companion to my last post on WordPress security. [...]
Is Your SSL Site Secure from the Heartbleed bug?
Is Your SSL Site Secure from the Heartbleed bug? HL News • April 9, 2014 If your site is using Open SSL technology then it may be affected by [...]
WordPress Security Tip Roundup – Things You Should Do To Protect Your WordPress Site
WordPress Security Tip Roundup - Things You Should Do To Protect Your WordPress Site HL News • March 25, 2014 Sometimes its easy to forget about the security of your [...]
Does Your Hosting Company Give You Fanatical Support? Ours Does!!
Does Your Hosting Company Give You Fanatical Support? Ours Does!! HL News • March 18, 2014 A lot of companies say they have great tech support when they want you to [...]
Too Many Redirects Error When Dealing With WordPress – 5 Things To Check
Too Many Redirects Error When Dealing With WordPress - 5 Things To Check HL News • March 16, 2014 Have you gotten the dreaded too many redirects error when working with WordPress? We [...]
Gold SEO Nuggets – Part 1
Gold SEO Nuggets - Part 1 HL News • March 10, 2014 I thought that I would pass along some gold SEO nuggets that I have found useful in the [...]
How To Create Your Own WordPress Plugin – Best Practice
How To Create Your Own Wordpress Plugin - Best Practice HL News • February 18, 2014 Creating a site-specific plugin is a best practice when developing in Wordpress. It travels [...]
Top 5 Most Useful WordPress Functions & Plugins
Top 5 Most Useful Wordpress Functions & Plugins HL News • February 17, 2014 We've been using WordPress as our go-to CMS (Content Management System) since 2009, or version 2.8.6 [...]
Display NextGEN Gallery Images In A Slider
Display NextGEN Gallery Images In A Slider HL News • February 15, 2014 Using Wordpress, I recently ran across an opportunity where I needed to recreate the look and feel [...]
Add Excerpts to Pages and Posts in WordPress
Add Excerpts to Pages and Posts in Wordpress HL News • January 3, 2014 So you've got your excerpt working great in your posts. You've figured out that if you [...]
WordPress 3.7.1 has been released
Wordpress 3.7.1 has been released HL News • October 29, 2013 The maintenance update to Wordpress 3.7.1 has been released. It fixes 11 bugs with 3.7. So if you have already [...]
WordPress 3.7 has been released!
Wordpress 3.7 has been released! HL News • October 24, 2014 Late tonight Wordpress 3.7 has been released. While working the night away, we received notification on our Wordpress Dashboard that [...]
Still thinking about making your website mobile friendly?
Still thinking about making your website mobile friendly? HL News • October 16, 2013 Here are some staggering facts: 95% of smartphone users have searched for local businesses from their [...]
WordPress Version 3.7 will be released in October
Wordpress Version 3.7 will be released in October HL News • October 12, 2013 It's official Wordpress 3.7 will be released in October! This new version quickly followed 3.6.1 which [...]
Google’s Penguin 2.1 Update Is Now Live!
Google's Penguin 2.1 Update Is Now Live! HL News • October 5, 2013 The next version of Google's Penguin update became live on October 4th, what does it mean to [...]
Google’s New Hummingbird – What it means to you and your customers!
Google's New Hummingbird - What it means to you and your customers! HL News • September 30, 2013 Google recently announced that they have been using a new algorithm to [...]
Major Search Engine Frowns on Ezine Articles and Press Release Backlinks
Major Search Engine Frowns on Ezine Articles and Press Release Backlinks HL News • September 16, 2013 If your website uses Ezine Articles or Press Releases for backlinking you could be in for [...]
Google Changes Ranking Advice
Google Changes Ranking Advice HL News • June 19, 2013 In a historic move, Google has updated their Webmaster Help documentation on ranking. On May 27th they changed the text to [...]
