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3 Content Marketing Trends in SEO Web Design
Most businesses with an online presence understand the basics of SEO web design. However, the sophistication of search engines and the demands of the customers will force SEO firms to constantly evolve to help your business maintain or increase its search results ranking. For example, artificial...
3 Reasons You Should Get a Website Audit Before Your Next Web Design
Search engine optimization (SEO) is critically important to elevate your website's visibility to search engines. Nearly 70% of online experiences start with a search engine. If your website does not rank highly for the terms your customers search for, you will lose those search engine leads to...
3 Digital Marketing Tools Reinvented for 2021
2021 will plunge businesses into unfamiliar territory. The economy has slowed significantly, unemployment is up, and business restrictions may remain in place for a few months into 2021 as COVID-19 vaccines become widely distributed. With these conditions outside of business owners' control, you...
About GT Metrix, Pagespeed Insights and Other Website Speed Testers
Make sure to read the related articles (bottom of this page) in order to learn more about specific issues you may encounter. There are endless situations one can encounter while checking the speed of a website on a website speed tester, especially considering that there are many of those. Let's...
Getting A Google Guarantee: What’s Behind the Badge (The Good, Bad & Ugly)
Something that popped up on our radar, in April of 2019, is the Google Guaranteed Badge. This certification offers small and local businesses a guaranteed profile marker that works to instill consumer confidence. There was some talk about a subscription based service, sort of like paying to be a...
2021 Email Marketing Trends Will Positively Impact Your Business
Just in 2019, over 293.6 billion emails were exchanged on a daily basis. Within those billions of emails, businesses were reaching out to continue to build and maintain their customer base. There have been many changes to the economy in 2020, which point to many changes in business practices....
Top 4 SEO Trends to Look Out for in 2021
The year 2020 continues to upend lives in unprecedented proportions on a global scale. Thousands of businesses are still working remotely due to COVID-19. The changes continue to impact how companies operate and conduct business. It is especially true for SEO trends that continue to evolve amidst...
5 Key Reasons Why You Should Invest In Professional Website Design
Given the continuous technological breakthroughs happening every day, it's critical to keep up with the online trends that affect your business. People are always searching for information on the internet, and it’s no different when it comes to business. However, it’s rather shocking that 36% of...
Design Your Website Better: Hire A Web Design Agency
In this internet age, having a website that works for your organization or business is borderline essential. Not just because a website is an easy place to route email marketing or post your latest newsletters, but because it is a digital representation of your organization that anyone can find....
Local SEO Companies: They Are Not All the Same
Local SEO companies can offer a turn-key approach to all your online marketing needs. You can get the website design Dallas TX businesses need to grow their business, a strategic approach to local SEO services that are customized to your business, and reach your target audience. Experienced local...
The Importance of SEO: Does Your Site Need It?
Millions of people use search engines on a day to day basis. In fact, around 68% of individuals searching online use a search engine. How a business ranks on Google matters when it comes to your business' success. And how fast you are found by these countless online searches is determined by...
7 Reasons Why Content Marketing Is Important In 2020
In today's competitive B2B market space, businesses are making significant investments in content marketing to showcase their brand message. In fact, 53% of marketers believe that blog content creation is a top inbound marketing strategy. HubSpot also points out that content marketing should make...
Top 5 Web Design Trends for 2021 and Beyond
Digital technology is always changing. SEO firms have to keep up with new developments, or websites may lose their prospects. Underlying applications may change their standards and rules, which means the website may fail to respond accordingly. Here are some innovative solutions that will be...
Top 5 Email Marketing Trends
Email is still the most effective form of marketing in the digital world. It beats SEO and Social Media platforms even as new technologies have had an impact on its speed and accuracy. Projections anticipate that AI and mobile will transform how we conduct marketing campaigns online. This article...
Better Leads Are in Your Future When You Partner with an SEO Firm
Nearly 60% of marketers credit inbound marketing, blog content and SEO, for representing their highest source of quality leads. What does this mean for your business? You need to be on top of your digital strategy. Digital marketing tactics are necessary in order to be top in your industry. It...
Local SEO Has a Dominant Position in Regards to Online Marketing
Up to 68% of online experiences start by using a search engine. Digital marketing is vital to every business, but do you know how it impacts your business in regards to local SEO? It’s actually very important but you need a clear idea concerning what local SEO is, how it’s relevant today, and how...
5 Reasons Why You Need to Hire a Web Design Agency
Any business that wants to remain competitive both online and offline must have a well-optimized website. A professional site builds your online credibility. It also targets a specific niche, allowing you to reach out to potential customers with the latest news and products. Businesses with...
What does unlimited graphic design mean?
Spade Design offers unlimited graphic design services. That's right, it's for real, and there are several of our customers that are already taking advantage of this service. Before we go further into the details about this service, please note, you have to be on a qualifying package. If you are...
Unlimited Graphic Design Scope of Work
Graphic design is a wide-open space. Spade Design is one of the many tools you can use to bring your creations to life. The first question you should ask yourself is: Can I reasonably explain or show what I want? If the answer is yes, great! Our service is going to be a good fit for you and we can...
What is a CDN and Do You Need One?
The speed at which your website loads affects your bottom line. Google recommends web pages load in two seconds or less, and the goal is under half a second. A CDN can help you reach that goal. It could potentially give you faster loading pages, happier users, improved security, and several other...
That Spam Email Everyone Is Getting
For the past few weeks, my clients have been asking me about this spam email going around. They're all getting basically the same email, and it makes them understandably nervous. First, let's look at what they received recently, then we'll talk a bit about spam email in general. Spam Email About...
How to Get SEO Results Faster
There's part of my job that I'm not crazy about. It's one thing that keeps coming up, and telling people the truth means delivering bad news. People come to us for website design or for a website redesign, and understandably, they want to know what it's going to cost them. The services of an...
5 Link Building Strategies That Actually Work
Once upon a time, it didn't matter where links came from, you just needed to get as many as possible to improve your website's search engine ranking. Now, all that has changed. Link quality matters more than quantity, so getting the right type of links has become more of a marathon than a sprint....
Would You Pay $50/Mo for Upgraded Google My Business?
Google Tests New GMB Upgrade Earlier this month, some users noticed a new option when it came to using and updating their Google Business profiles. Google didn't officially announce the option, but reportedly they're testing an upgraded version that costs $50/month. When clients signed up,...
Hiring the Right Social Media Marketing Manager – The First Time
Raise your hand if you've heard claims about how social media marketing can flood your business with leads, traffic, growth, sales, and everything else good. Now raise your hand if you've tried it and heard crickets. If you responded both times, you're in the majority. It isn't that social media...
