Category: Small Business Websites

Save on Web Hosting with GreenGeeks

Web Hosting Black Friday Deal for Small Business

It’s that time of year when Black Friday deals abound! As many of you know, I’m a huge advocate for using a reliable web host, and my go-to choice for a long time now has been GreenGeeks (remember my rave review?). Here’s a refresher on why I ♥ GreenGeeks:

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Outdated SQL Server Warning and Why GreenGeeks Rocks

Outdated SQL Server Warning and Why GreenGeeks Rocks

  You may or may not have noticed that since WordPress 5.2 – released in 2019 – Site Health has been an included feature of WordPress by default. The tool monitors a site’s health and alerts users to potential issues and suggests improvements. One of the alerts I seem to be seeing quite a bit …

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Managed WordPress: Is It Right for You?

Managed WordPress: Is It Right for You?

If you’re a small business owner just beginning to build your online presence, you may have noticed offerings of both ‘shared hosting’ and ‘Managed WordPress’ (or ‘WordPress hosting’) when searching for a company to host your website.  There are some good things to be said about Managed WordPress: Managed WordPress servers are configured specifically for …

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Content Strategy: Quality vs. Quantity

The quality of your content affects SEO

It is a common misconception among small business professionals that the more content they have, the better they will rank in search results. Maybe I should say it’s a half-truth, because it’s true the more high-quality content you produce, the better you’re likely to rank. And search engines can tell the difference between quality content …

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What Can SEO Do For You?

Recently I worked with a client who wanted to increase traffic to her WordPress website. We applied some standard on-site and off-site SEO techniques to achieve the results shared here. We employed no complicated backlinking strategy and this is not an ongoing $300 monthly service. Yet we improved her web traffic by about 1250% – …

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