Alexa, Why Isn't My Business Showing Up in Voice Search?
Alexa, Why Isn't My Business Showing Up in Voice Search?
What is voice search? It's what happens when you ask a question out loud to a device, such as your phone, your Alexa, your Google Assistant, Siri, or who knows ... your refrigerator? With so many smart devices today, it's hard to tell. What we do know is more...
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Big change with Google maps that are part of your website: Is your contact page map broken?
Big change with Google maps that are part of your website: Is your contact page map broken?
Google announced a big change last month affecting the Google maps that synchronize with websites:
Previously, web designers (such as SiteInSight) could sync Google maps with lots of things on websites using something called an API key. And we could use it for free. That means we could:
put a...
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SiteInSight recognized by news media for community website
SiteInSight recognized by news media for community website
ThisWeek News featured SiteInSight's work redesigning a website for the Northland Community Council in an article entitled, "Northland Community Council: Upgraded website praised."
SiteInSight CEO Alice Foeller was recently elected Secretary of the Northland Community Council, and undertook the redesign as a public service, and partly for convenience, since she...
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The Russians are hurting your business (or at least your Business Facebook Page)
The Russians are hurting your business (or at least your Business Facebook Page)
The news is abuzz with Russian infiltration of Facebook. This may seem like purely political news, but in fact it has a real impact on many businesses, especially small businesses.
Overwhelmed business owners and marketing directors have come to rely heavily on the ease of Facebook. It's easy to post...
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No, you can't get rid of a bad online review
No, you can't get rid of a bad online review
Here are two very dangerous scenarios:
Your company has poor reviews online. Potential customers are scared away.
Your company has no reviews online. If you receive one poor review, you are toast, because you don't have good reviews to balance it.
In either case, you have a problem. And both problems have...
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What is a Blog and Why Do I Need One?
What is a Blog and Why Do I Need One?
What do you think of when you hear the word blog? Or blogger? You might think of a young person writing about a recipe, or tips on organization. And, that is one segment of the blogging world. But the truth is that to reach your customers and potential customers...
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Bad Reviews? No Reviews? We Can Help
Bad Reviews? No Reviews? We Can Help
It feels like a nightmare... you search your company online and find a bad review. Your star rating has gone down. You think to yourself, “no problem, I’ll just ask some friends to write good reviews for the company.” Well, they had better be really good friends because it...
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Content. That stuff you should add to your website. Regularly.
Content. That stuff you should add to your website. Regularly.
Most businesses want to grow and add customers, and they wish those new customers would magically find them on the Internet, while they are searching Google and are in the mindset to make a purchase. While unlikely to happen on its own, such an "inbound marketing" strategy can work...
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Cool New Website Features: Does Your Site Have a Sticky Menu?
Cool New Website Features: Does Your Site Have a Sticky Menu?
Time marches on, technology improves, phones grow larger, and computers grow smaller.
As a design company who helps many businesses and organizations update their websites, we keep an eye on the latest and greatest features.
One of my favorite features we are including on a lot of new redesigns is what...
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What is that little padlock for? Do I need one?
What is that little padlock for? Do I need one?
Have you ever wondered about the small padlock located next to the URL of some websites? This icon indicates a security feature that some websites have and others do not. Recently, Google has announced that websites with an SSL certificate will be ranked higher in Google search than websites...
It has long been an inconvenience to Instagram users that they can’t post contents from their laptop, especially when most editing tools can be found in desktop applications. Now, it is a good thing that Facebook rolled a new cross-posting feature from Facebook to Instagram. Too Much Work Most users […]
Today’s competition in the online business has undoubtedly been very tight. There has been a record of millions of photos and videos on Instagram per day. Competing with these contents is difficult and, if you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you would need to carefully plan […]
Facebook has been a boiling pot full of businesses competing to reach their paying customers. However, sometimes, first timers or even veterans are still having a hard time using the platform’s ad targeting features due to some learning curve. Now, have you considered using Facebook Reach Ads to specifically target […]
