Tag Archives: seo

What are the essential features of a website?

You want to make sure it’s responsive – i.e. it will automatically reformat based on the user’s device screen size – so that it is user friendly. A menu for easy navigation, footer links for pages such as the Terms … Continue reading →

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What is the purpose and how do I set up a sitemap on my e-commerce website?

A sitemap is a good way to tell the search engines what webpages they should crawl, to index your pages quicker and easier. You can setup up a sitemap easily with UltimateWB – it has a built-in sitemap generator, as … Continue reading →

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Does using cheap shared hosting for a site or a blog impact the rankings for that site or blog?

It depends on whether your website loads fast or not – if it doesn’t, it does impact your search engine rankings for your website/blog. The reason for slow website loads can be because of your website/blog itself, and/or the server … Continue reading →

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Should you use H1 Tags for better SEO, search engine ranking, and more organic traffic?

The short, quick answer is: If you want…you don’t have to have H1 tags, you can have 1 H1 tag per page, you can have multiple H1 tags per page – having H1 tags it is not a determining factor … Continue reading →

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Which website builder is the most optimized for SEO and offers the most useful plug-ins?

UltimateWB has a built-in SEO tool, allows you to choose pretty urls (i.e. www.your-website.com/this-page-is-about-this), and a sitemap generator. The CMS lets you easily add content, which is also great for SEO. Also, UItimateWB has a lot of built-in apps that … Continue reading →

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What’s the best website builder for SEO?

The most important part in SEO is your content. After that, you will want to make sure that your website builder loads your website fast and doesn’t cause any slow page loads. Some WordPress plugins can really cause delay in … Continue reading →

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Why you need a sitemap for your website search engine ranking & SEO

A sitemap is just like how it sounds – it’s a roadmap for search engines that lead them to your webpages. It’s a list of your website’s individual page urls,in an XML file, so that Google and other search engines can crawl … Continue reading →

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Wix does not allow you to add SSL to your websites

With Google pushing for all websites to be hosted with SSL, to protect personal data and increase website security, Wix still does not allow you to add SSL to your website.  It is currently a feature request their customers are … Continue reading →

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Should you get SSL for your website? Top 5 Reasons to go HTTPS, and Top 5 Drawbacks

Top 5 reasons to purchase SSL for your website, in David Letterman style, without the jokes lol: 5) Increased Google Ranking Earlier we wrote about how adding SSL may give you a bump up in your Google search engine ranking, … Continue reading →

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Google To Favor “Mobile Friendly” Websites In Search Starting Tuesday

Is your website mobile friendly?  If your website is not by this Tuesday you could be dramatically losing traffic to your website from smartphone users!  This coming Tuesday Google plans on rolling out their new revised formula in calculating who gets … Continue reading →

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