Speed Matters: How to Optimize Your Website for Faster Loading Times

Speed Matters: How to Optimize Your Website for Faster Loading Times

In today’s fast-paced world, when someone visits your website, they expect to find what they’re looking for right away. Few people have the patience to wait more than a few seconds for a page to load or a video to start playing. That’s why it’s critical to make sure your website is running at top…

Your online reviews can turn visitors into customers
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Your online reviews can turn visitors into customers

One of the best things you can do for your business is to gain positive online reviews from satisfied customers. These reviews can then have a positive effect on potential customers that are interested in the products and services your business offers. Online reviews are actually an important part of a good Local SEO plan….

Connect with your customers through storytelling
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Connect with your customers through storytelling

People love to read stories. Stories can be inspiring, and they can fuel our imaginations. They can even invoke emotional responses. But what does that have to do with marketing your business? Effective storytelling is a powerful tool for your business. Stories have an uncanny ability of creating connections between you and your customers. With…

How to Whitelist Emails

How to Whitelist Emails

It’s vital to your business to ensure the proper delivery of important emails to your inbox. The first step in achieving this goal is to regularly visit your spam or junk folder and mark legitimate emails as “not spam” or “not junk”. Secondly, you should also add legitimate senders to your contacts list and keep…

Why It’s Important to Keep Your Website Updated
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Why It’s Important to Keep Your Website Updated

It’s extremely important to keep your website’s software updated, regardless of what was used in which to build it. Whether it was built using WordPress or another content management platform, it is imperative that the software remain updated to the latest versions whenever possible. You will also need to consider any addons or plugins you…

Why You Need A Privacy Policy, Terms of Service and Disclaimer For Your Website
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Why You Need A Privacy Policy, Terms of Service and Disclaimer For Your Website

As new laws are passed around the world and in a growing number U. S. States, it is becoming increasingly critical that every website have clear policies that outline privacy concerns and usage by outside visitors. As business owners, we need to protect our digital assets and your website is one of, if not the,…

Content Focused Design: Why You Need To Focus On Content Before Design
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Content Focused Design: Why You Need To Focus On Content Before Design

The process of building a website can be a timely one, but it’s very important to consider the user experience. For every website built by Harness Media, we never begin with design. In fact, it is one of the last steps in the website building process. Truly effective web design focuses on the user, their…

Top 8 Ways To Make Your WordPress Website Super Fast
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Top 8 Ways To Make Your WordPress Website Super Fast

Speed is important online. Your website visitors are impatient and Google rewards fast websites with higher ranking in search results. WordPress sites can be slow if they aren’t built or configured properly. However, there are services, tools, and methods available to make your WordPress website zoom. Here are the top 8 ways to make your…

F Your Website
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F Your Website

How and why to prepare your website content using the F Pattern style of writing Recently, I presented to the members of a local business referral and networking group on how to “F Your Website”. Here is a transcribed version of the slideshow I presented to them. Good content is important Wait – content is…

11 Ways To Make Your WordPress Website Hackable
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11 Ways To Make Your WordPress Website Hackable

As you may already know, WordPress is a powerful tool for building websites. It provides website owners with a learnable and intuitive interface (the Dashboard) for publishing and managing content. It also provides developers and designers with a robust system for building feature-rich and beautiful websites for their clients (the website owners). But how secure…

Google Prefers Responsive Design
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Google Prefers Responsive Design

By now, you are probably used to hearing about Google changing its search algorithm to accommodate various trends in the web design market. They are constantly updating the algorithm to keep up with the times. Google’s planned algorithm updated slated for April 21, 2015 is no different. Mobile-friendly websites aren’t anything new. For many years, web…

Rescue My Domain
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Rescue My Domain

Just like any profession, there are a few of those so-called “professionals” out there that make the real professionals look bad. And web developers are no exception. I’ve rescued several of my clients from the clutches of a bad web developer or hosting company. Most of the time, I’ve found that the entire situation could have…