Google Analytics is an expansive, informative, and enlightening tool that can provide invaluable insights into your website – and unfortunately, it can be a bit intimidating. If you haven’t explored your website’s data in Google Analytics, or if you haven’t even installed the program on your website, you’re not alone – but you are seriously …
How to Respond to Google Reviews
Whether you’re searching for a trustworthy mechanic, a tasty Turkish meal, or a relaxing coffee shop, you likely turn to the internet for help. According to BrightLocal, 85 percent of consumers trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations and 73 percent of consumers say that positive reviews make them trust a local business more. …
Best Practices for Using Redirects
We’ve all been there: You click on a link, excited to explore the page you were promised, and instead you find an empty page. It might say something standard like “404 Page” or “Page Not Found,” or sometimes you’ll find a silly message like “Oops! Nothing to see here,” or “Uh-oh! You appear to be …
The Difference Between Categories and Tags
Do you want a flabby website or a taut, sturdy, and well-constructed website? Do I even need to ask? You can (and should) add structure to your website in a variety of ways. For example, planning a hierarchy for your pages, creating a URL structure that follows that hierarchy, creating a header for easy navigation, …
Google+ vs. Google My Business
UPDATE 10/9/18: Google announced on October 8, 2018, that it would shut down the consumer version of Google+ in August 2019. The corporate version of Google+ will still exist. Due to low usage rates, Google found that the search engine was no longer worth maintaining. This was disclosed at the same time as a security vulnerability …
