While Google, Bing and Yahoo all receive a huge amount of traffic each month, if you want to build a strong search engine presence for your business, there’s nothing wrong with primarily focusing on Google. The reason is if you follow the best practices for building a strong Google presence, your rankings in the other…
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Common Web Design Mistakes That Can Kill Your Conversion Rate
When it comes to a business website, the most important thing is that it’s able to convert visitors into customers. Whether that’s done directly or through a process like having visitors schedule a consultation, once you identify your primary goal for the site, your focus should be on maximizing its conversion rate. And in order…
4 Reasons Branding Does Matter
A fairly common misconception is that branding is just a fluffy marketing term. While that misconception primarily stems from people misunderstanding exactly what branding means, real branding is actually a very important process. To really understand why, let’s touch on four key reasons: Makes Businesses Memorable People are bombarded with ads and other marketing messages…
Google Panda and Google Penguin: Are These Updates Still an Issue in 2013?
The short answer to that question is yes, both updates are still an issue in 2013. For the longer answer, let’s dive into what’s been going on with these algorithms over the course of this year: Google Panda 2013 Updates Search Engine Land has published seven Panda stories during this year. Those stories have been:…
WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal
We’re often asked which Content Management System (CMS) is best for our clients. Well, Devious Media put together this infographic that summarizes the differences between WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. For the majority of our clients, we recommend WordPress for its ease of use of moderation and low setup and customization costs. And honestly, who doesn’t…
How to Flush DNS Cache in Mac OS X
Are you a web developer migrating domains, or a systems admin doing maintenance and need to flush the DNS cache on your machine to get things all in order? If you’re running Mac OS X, it’s actually pretty easy and only requires a simple command within your Terminal window. Depending on which version you’re running,…
How to uninstall Joomla
We recently migrated a site from Joomla to WordPress and had to figure out how best to completely uninstall Joomla. Well, turns out the best way is to just delete all its files and then remove the database. Below are the folders and files you will need to remove (this is based off of Joomla…
How to set JAVA_HOME on Mac OS X
Trying to run a Java application on your Mac and need to set your JAVA_HOME? Follow the instructions below to quickly and easily do it: Open Terminal Confirm you have JDK by typing “which java”. It should show something like /usr/bin/java. Check you have the needed version of Java, by typing “java -version”. JAVA_HOME is…
Sending Authenticated SMTP Email with attachments using PHP – Pear Mail
We recently had to reconfigure how mail was being sent using PHP and oddly there were many sources out there that just didn’t seem to work. So here’s some sample code we put together that should work if you’re trying to send authenticated SMTP email with an attachment using Pear Mail.