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New Year Resolutions for your website
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Happy New Year! May 2016 bring you fantastic success in your business, happiness and health in your life and most importantly balance. As we start the first week of 2016, site owners or managers should set new year resolutions for their website so that it becomes a powerful marketing tool for their company and supports all of their business goals this year. To keep the resolutions organized we have divided them into 3 distinct areas listed below. =1= Take your website seriously:

Year-end checklist for your website
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If you have a website for your business or organization, you may want to pay close attention to the following year-end lists. Like many other things, they are not complicated but nonetheless following these bullet points is very important to the continued success of your website and company.

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2016 Website Design Trends
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As we approach 2016, our team reflects on the newest trends that recently sparked in website design and analyzes which ones will continue to grow and become a trend to follow next year. Today we have selected the 4 top web design trends. =1= Less text, more images and more videos: We all know that Internet users prefer to watch instead of read. YouTube is continuing to grow in popularity and remains strong...

Video on Microsoft Edge and Website Design Implications
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We covered in prior posts what Microsoft Edge was, what its cool features were and what benefits it brought to Internet users and website developers. The long awaited modern and evergreen browser has delivered and so far it is a welcome change to its prior Microsoft product, Internet Explorer, which for years created lots of issues for website design. Today no need to read ... just relax and watch our 15 minute-video. Virginie Dorn and Ryan Perry recap the 5 biggest attrib...

Website Design for Microsoft Edge
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A few weeks ago we reviewed what Microsoft Edge was and what set it apart from its predecessor Internet Explorer (see our prior post What is Microsoft Edge?). Today we are continuing the discussion but focusing more on the relationship between the new Edge browser and website design. Quick recap:

  1. It is only available on Wind...

SEO series part 5 – Quality guidelines from Google
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If you have a Google Webmaster and go to the tools' section, you will see that the search engine king highlights a long list of quality guidelines. They mainly describe the "what not to do" on your website. Over the years, bad online marketers have used non ethical and unreliable methods to attempt to trick Google and other search engines. Some of these tricks may have worked for a few weeks or months but, eventually, it always backfired and the poor site owner was left with a website t...

SEO series part 4 – Technical guidelines from Google
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We spent the past two weeks reviewing the 10 recommendations offered by Google itself to ensure top ranking for your website. In this post and video, we cover part 2 of the 3 part-guidelines from Google. Today we chat about the technical guidelines. Though they can be intimidating, they are nonetheless extremely important to optimizing your website. =1= Google recommends to allow all of your site's files to be crawled. By this they me...

SEO series part 3 – More on design and content guidelines
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Last week in our webinar, we discussed the webmaster guidelines presented by Google. We spoke in details about the first 5 of the 10 specific items Google wants and expects to see in the design and content of a good website. By doing what the top search engine wants, you ensure top ranking for your website for the keywords of your choice. Ranking on #1 on page #1 (or close to that top spot) will guarantee more visitors to your website therefore help you increase your visibility and revenue strea...

SEO series part 2 – Design and content guidelines from Google
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In recent years Google has offered "guidelines" to webmasters to help them better rank the websites they design. It is a full time job to keep up with the guidelines' continual changes but a good web designer should make it a priority in order to better serve his or her clients. Google currently organizes its recommendations into three distinct sections which we will be reviewing over the next three weeks. =1= Design and content guidelines =2= Technical guid...

SEO series part 1 – Forwarding versus pointing multiple domain names to the same website
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Why do people register multiple domain names? Many business owners register multiple domain names for various reasons. =1= In most cases, it is done to protect their brand such as registering the same name with different URL extensions ( .com, .net, .info, .org, etc.) or registering domain names that are similar to their company name or their brand. =2= There are ti...

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