DIY Website Care and Maintenance
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Useful Links for DIY Content Design
Are you a content designer who writes copy and designs web pages? Me, too! One day I’m rewriting metadata for a web page. The next day I’m mocking up a landing page. Here are resources I’ve found to help me with my multi-disciplinary projects. Figma and Web Design Figma is an online design tool made…
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How to Find and Fix Dead Links
Outbound Links in Your Web Content Can Rot Away On the web, sites change their structure and naming system, domain names are sold, and websites go dark. We have no control over what another site owner does. One study found that one in every 200 links breaks each week and that each web link has…
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Why is My Competition Outranking Me in Search?
Take advantage of free SEO competitor analysis tools. Here are three ways to find your competitor’s strategies. 1. Test Your Competitor’s Site First, see how your competitor shows up in search. You could type in their URL, but you’d be missing an opportunity to analyze their search results. Open an incognito window in your favorite…
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No One Can Guarantee Search Results
If someone promises to make your site number one in search, be skeptical. Here’s why. The Web is Huge By most estimates, there are more than a billion sites on the internet in 2024. SEMRush reports that Google’s search index is more than 100,000,000 GB. 1 And it is Constantly Changing According to Siteefy, 252,000…
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How to Use Google Trends Explore
You can use Google Trends Explore as part of a no-cost system to find the words people use to search for your website. Using the same language potential visitors use will bring more people to your site. Think of yourself as your website’s host and imagine the visitors are your guests. A good website host…
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Is the Wrong Keyword Costing You Search Traffic?
If a page on your website doesn’t bring in engagement and interest, look at its keywords again. Here are some warning signs that you or your clients are optimizing for the wrong keyword.
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Track Your Site’s Performance with These Free Tools
Search Engines offer free access to data about your website. With these tools, you can track Key Performance Indicators and measure your progress toward business objectives. For instance, Google Analytics will tell you how many people found your site with organic search. Bing webmaster tools have a great backlinks list. Here are some helpful links…
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HTML & CSS: This Looks Useful
When I design content, I need my HTML and CSS skills, even when I’m using a Content Management System like WordPress. Also, I’ve found knowing some HTML is helpful with drag-and-drop editors like MailChimp’s backend. Sometimes errors creep into the content boxes, or the style options offered in the editing tools just don’t fit the…
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Useful Resources for Redirects and Regex
Here are a few useful tutorials and references I’ve found for tackling technical SEO. Technical SEO is a big subject, I’m sharing links only for tasks I’ve had to do. So I have found resources for redirecting pages and avoiding 404 errors. And I’m beginning to build up helpful resources for website speed. Redirects and…
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How to Prioritize Website Administrator Tasks
A Simple System to Decide What to Fix Next. Most website administrators balance managing content, monitoring site health, improving user experience, and resolving software issues. Most websites don’t have an unlimited budget, and work needs to be weighed against ROI (return on investment). A simplified version of the system product designers developed for evaluating heuristic…