Website Tech – Turning Your Designs into Working Websites!

If you’re not as tech literate as you’d like, that’s okay. Communication, online or offline, is not a contest. We can’t all be Techies. Participate. Try. Fail. Learn. Try again. Succeed! In these posts you will find AI, HTML, Content Management Systems, sitemaps, Google Fonts, and more! Computers are an integral part of your online marketing. Get onboard – HTML is free, Javascript is free, PHP is free, WordPress and Drupal are free …

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Using Assistive AI to Build a Simple Website

You can use AI to assist you with a lot of your small business work. Just be sure to use AI as a tool, and not as a replacement for your own skills and talents.

How to Optimise Your Website for Voice Search

Want to be found locally? Use Google Business Profile and local keywords. Want to be found over Voice Search? Take a more conversational tone.

What is a Spam Score for Backlinks?

SEO can take a lot of time, so don’t let all your hard work be for nothing because of a few toxic spam links. Find out what you can do!

Ranking Problems? HTML Can Help Improve Your SEO

HTML makes our websites more accessible. HTML helps search engines process the information on our websites. Long story short, SEO needs HTML. Find out how!

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9 Simple Tips to Help You Get Your Website’s Pages Indexed Faster

How can you get your web pages indexed by Google and Bing quickly? That’s a common question and I have 9 answers that may help you.

Cater a Wedding for 100 People Without Using a Food Processor or Build a Website Using Only HTML and CSS

Learning how a tool works is just as important as using it. Building a website with page builders doesn’t offer you the “why” and “how” that writing HTML does. Find out more!

The Top 4 Things Your Website Should Include

Your website should contain many things, but there are 4 things it shouldn’t lack. Read about the importance of content, speed, security, and accessibility.

WordPress and the Rise of Full Site Editing

WordPress is perfect whether you are a beginner or a professional. Use it for your cat’s blog or your online shop. With the Full Site Editor you can design in WordPress even easier!

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Making Your Website Accessible for Everyone

Accessibility means creating websites so people can use them without restriction. It is an important part of sustainable, hygienic marketing.

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Why Marketing Hygiene is so Important to Your Clients and Your Processes

Marketing Hygiene is the process of maintaining the freshness and function of your marketing tools, processes, and strategies to preserve the overall health and wellbeing of your business.

Your Online Marketing Hygiene includes your Social Media, Website, Online Shop, Email, Search, and Controlling assets and tactics.

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Are Cookies Going Away in 2023?

Google announced that it will phase out 3rd party cookies in the Chrome browser. It also does not plan to build any similar tracking devices. Their plan is for this to happen in 2023. This change will affect anyone advertising with Google Ads, as 3rd party cookies are important for retargeting us when we move from one website to another.

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TechTalk #4 How You Can Easily Conduct a Mini Site Audit

Your website is your 24/7 marketing platform. Don’t forget to perform a checkup once a quarter. A Site Audit is something you can do yourself. Find out how in Bridget and my TechTalk #5!

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TechTalk #3 Using Google Fonts on Your Website

Many of our website themes deliver fonts, icons, and other 3rd party material directly to our websites. This is easy and fast and something we don’t think about. This data is sometimes delivered unsecured, and over time it might become a lot of data, thus slowing down our websites. What can we do about that and why would we do it?

TechTalk #2: Optimising Your Website for Page Speed

If you can do something faster, then you have an advantage. The same goes for websites. No one likes a slow website. Join Bridget and I as we look at how you can speed up your website!

TechTalk #1: Why Your Website Sitemap is Important, How to Make a Sitemap, and How to Implement Your Sitemap

What is the purpose of a Sitemap? Do Sitemaps help SEO? Are Sitemaps still relevant? How do I create a Sitemap? The answers to these questions and more are just a click away!

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Tracking Your Goals and Other Reasons Why You Need to Include a Data Analytics Tool in Your Website

There is the “Aha moment” when we stand back and ask questions about everything we do. How did that work? Are we doing the right thing? Analytics and tracking allow us to capture the impact of what we are doing on our website, social media, and advertising. It gives us the chance to measure our success or failure so that we can optimise our efforts.

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#ChampsTalk Twitter chat session Topic: Let’s Talk About Google Core Web Vitals

I was invited by Social Champ to talk about Google Core Web Vitals, and it was a great Twitter hour. Thank you, guys! There were a lot of good questions, and the community on Social Champ are great. So what are the much talked about Google Core Web Vitals anyway?