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Tips + Tricks I Think All Business Owners Should Read
50 on/20 off Productivity Booster
Was going through some of the 17,000 unread email in my Outlook, and saw an enewsletter from Ed Gardia, who helps freelancers boost their income. From a download I saw on his site, a tip of "50 mins on, 20 mins off" for productivity (and income) boosting. I plan to...
Privacy Policy for Canadian Websites
We are Lara Spence Web Design in Vancouver, BC. We help small to mid-sized businesses with online marketing, eCommerce websites, informational websites, and more. We also help most of our customers by writing their online privacy policy. Contact us for help! Here is...
Instagram for Nonprofits
We can help you with your nonprofit's Instagram campaign. Our team of experts can manage some, most or all of your social media campaign. We have services to suit you. Contact Lara Spence Web Design. We loved this recent post inspiration from Wild Apricot, a very...
Why a Single Page Website Is Bad for SEO
If you are considering a new website or an update and are considering a single page website, you might want to reconsider. Even though the single page style is trendy right now, it won't do you any favors with SEO. While it is important to keep things current in terms...
Top SEO Recommendations in 2019
What is effective and recommended by Google in terms of SEO can change, yet good content SEO'd properly, taking consistent action, and getting good links to you have been important since 1997, when I first took a course on it. We've come across this excellent article...
Why You Should Post to Google My Business
Not sure what Google My Business is, or why you should post so it? HINT: You should! At least once every 2 weeks! https://www.chatmeter.com/blog/why-google-posts-are-essential-to-your-seo-and-veo-strategy/ https://moz.com/blog/google-my-business-posts-case-study
How to Create Valuable Content
Was cleaning up my office and found a great piece of paper on creating valuable content: Make Content Findable H1 tagh2 taghas meta description, proper SEO'd meta titlelinks to related contentalt tags for images Make Content Readable inverted pyramid writing...
Steps in Web Design Projects
Many new clients ask me the steps in web design projects, and it's great to ask! This post will outline the steps so you're more familiar with them and can ask more questions - and understand why these things aren't just 2 hour projects! Here's the steps: You look at...
How to Optimize Images for the Web
Was having a discussion with a client's graphic designer on web images. She was sending them to me as 779kb images. "Too big," I said. She thought not. So now I have this post to back up what my team and I know and always aim for: the whole web page under 1-2mb, fast...
Setting Expectations for SEO
In SEO, as in life, setting expectations can save a lot of stress and grief. Recently, a deluge of spam from companies (often with no url for their own business, hmmm...) promising to get your company ranked #1 in Google within 2 weeks for a rate of $25 per...