It’s finally time to start adding secure certificates to your site

Google Chrome will begin displaying warnings about unsecured sites on Jan. 31.

We’ve known for a while that Google was going to start dinging sites that didn’t encrypt their connections to protect their user’s private communications.  Now we have a date: Jan. 31.  If your hosting company isn’t yet providing nearly free certificates, or totally free ones from Let’s Encrypt or a similar certificate authority then… might be time to think…

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Google: pages should show what real people want to see

There are two main things you can do to improve your website’s SEO Part One: the “marketing” side One part is all about marketing in the best sense of the word: identifying the people you want to reach identifying how they think about your products, services, ideas, or interests Then creating content that meets their interests speaks to…

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Google Tips from the SEO Wizards at Yoast

Google graphic via Yoast.com

Here’s a little information about how search engines like Google index and rank web pages.  It’s taken from the ebook Optimize your WordPress Site by the SEO wizards at Yoast.com. Links Search engines like Google follow links. It follows links from one web page to another web page. A search engine like Google consists of a crawler,…

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