I recently talked about how to remove spammy referral traffic in Google Analytics by creating URL specific filters to remove the offending referral sources from appearing in your traffic. But what if we wanted to cut off the problem at the source and keep these sites from being able to send any traffic to our […]
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I recently changed my email marketing provider from Aweber to MailChimp. After having made the switch and working with MailChimp for awhile, I thought I’d put together this MailChimp review so that you can know what you’re getting and getting into if you decide to use MailChimp as your email marketing provider, as well. Cost
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It’s spring cleaning time, a time of the year I like to give all of my website a good polish to make sure that they’re performing at top condition to rank well in the SERPs regardless of the content I’ve got on them. This also makes for the perfect opportunity to share with you how
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You may have experienced this before: you log in to your Google Analytics and are pleasantly surprised to see a sudden boost in traffic to your website, specifically in referral traffic. Upon closer investigation, however, you are disappointed to discover the majority of that referral traffic is coming from spammy sources. The sole purpose for
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SSL, or secure sockets layer, is an added layer of security which all websites should have in this day and age. Because of the number of benefits of SSL, hundreds of companies have popped up which offer this encryption based security service to websites along with the corresponding certificates which browsers read to ensure that
Cold emailing is the technique of soliciting complete strangers about your business and its products or services. Just like with cold calling, because it’s unsolicited, it’s a huge gamble. Still, when done correctly, cold emailing can be one of the most effective ways to connect with new client prospects. Let’s get right to it and
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It’s long been said that speed kills, but in the modern age of the internet, it could be your LACK of speed which is killing your chance at ranking well or converting on your site’s goals. Slow loading time alienates site visitors, costs you in potential income in any number of ways, and disappoints user
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It’s frustrating when you check your email list stats at the end of the day or week and are encouraged by a strong sign up rate only to find it’s partially or completely comprised of bots. To this day I have no clue as to why a spam bot would sign up for an email
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I’ve talked about how to beat the spam folder and ensure that your emails get out to your list/subscribers using a number of techniques. Still, one of the most reliable ways to accomplish this is to create records on your hosting account which your domains are hosted on using a bit of information from your
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This is your friendly mid-year reminder that dead links always hurt your presence online both in the eyes of your visitors as well as search engines, so cleaning them up is always a mini SEO audit project to keep in mind. Search engines like Google are businesses like any other and as such they want
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