BBDS Design

Slow website? Google is ready to give slow websites a badge of shame.

Fast website, Web Hosting, WordPress hosting

The Chrome team announced recently in a blog post that they are considering a "badge of shame" for slow websites. As the Chrome browser has a 50% market share in the US, this is clearly something to be concerned about.…

News WordPress training

How to Avoid the Gutenberg WordPress Editor … And Save Your Site

Mike

Gutenberg Editor

WordPress Steps Into the Future … or Jumps Off a Cliff WordPress has taken an enormous step and integrated its new editing environment, named “Gutenberg”, into the core open source WordPress.org distribution as of version 4.9.8. This is the WordPress…

SEO

Pinterest Marketing for Your Business – Leveraging the Visual Social Network

Fan

Pinterest Marketing

Pinterest is a relatively young social media platform, a visual social network, that is growing very fast. A visual social network’s primary medium is, you guessed it, visual, as in images or infographics. There are many fields of interest in…

SEO Tips Web Analytics

How to Install a Google Analytics Tracking ID to Monitor Your Site Traffic

Fan

Why monitor your traffic with Google Analytics? Measure site traffic Record search queries (in conjunction with Google Search Console) Find out where your visitors come from, and what devices and browsers they use Determine which pages are most popular See…

eCommerce

WordPress Ecommerce Made Easy!

Mike

online store, shopping cart, Woocommerce

A WordPress Ecommerce online store is easy to setup and maintain. There are pros and cons to any ecommerce platform. The advantages of WordPress are its relatively lightweight footprint and the ease of customizing the frontend look. It is free…

SEO SEO Tips

Claim Your Google My Business Listing for Better Local SEO

Mike

Google My Business, SEO

Top SEO Tip: Get on Page One of Search as Many Times as Possible Obvious, right? As in, "Duh?" It's easier than you think. The best advice I can give for business struggling to hit the first search page is…

SEO

Measure Your Website Traffic with Google Analytics – Overview

Fan

Google Analytics, how to improve website

When we develop a website, after optimizing the entire site, one thing we will definitely will do is to register the website with Google Analytics, and install its tracking code on the website. Google Analytics is called GA in short.…

5 Small Changes to Improve Your Website

Fan

You work really hard on your website. Here are some suggestions for small website improvements that will increase website performance, security, usability or SEO ranking. Do you have a SSL certificate installed? Your domain name should look like https://yourdomain.com, instead of http://yourdomain.com.…

Web Design WordPress training

Protected: How to use WordPress and build a business website

Fan

WordPress class

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SEO SEO Tips

Assessing Your Website’s SEO

Mike

low traffic, SEO

Find Your Website Via Search Sounds simple, right? Find my own website in Google or Bing. Here's the trick -- find it like a naive searcher with no knowledge of you or your business. Use a clean browser with no…