Category Archives: Web Development

11 SEO Tips for Website Optimization

11 SEO Tips for Website Optimization

Many people think that SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is an esoteric dark art, and only understood by shady “web guru” types. The reality is much more practical and down to earth.

SEO is really about providing consistent quality content with the right keywords, and making sure the pages are properly indexed, tagged, linkable, and ready to be shared.

How to Win at SEO and Still Lose

How to Win at SEO and Still Lose

Our Creative Director, David Kunkel, spent many years working for an international IT staffing and services provider. As a primary subcontractor to IBM, with a superior product, lean cost structure, a talented sales team and dedicated, motivated employees, it should have enjoyed decades of growth and a commensurate rise in stock price since its founding in the ‘60s.

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Email “Marketing?”

Email “Marketing?”

If your first impulse is to repeatedly blast generic sales messages to your entire list, stop for a minute. Treat it as simply advertising and your audience will quickly tune out. Bombard them with inbox filler, and they’ll unsubscribe. Worse yet, if they “block” your messages or “label as spam” too often, your entire domain may be blocked from major email carriers.

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What is Mixed Content?

What is Mixed Content?

As I mentioned in last month’s blog post, Google made a change that essentially requires websites to encrypt their pages with SSL. They did this by making their Chrome browser show an insecure warning when browsing the site, generally frightening away visitors when there is no SSL.

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