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1) Write searchable posts This means you will need to know a little about search engine optimization, or SEO. You can search Google about blog SEO, and find tons of information. But if you want help, there are many WordPress plugins about there than assist you. Yoast is one we like here at Sumy Designs.…
If you are reading this, you’re probably on Twitter or Facebook or both. And you may have a blog. We are huge supporters of blogging because it’s great for you, great for your business, and great for the search engines. You’ll learn more about yourself and your own business by doing it, as well as…
We designed both a logo and website for Women’s Holistic Health, and we have to say that both are incredibly beautiful. Women’s Holistic Health has a goal to help you restore balance to the body, mind, and spirit and we think their website is the perfect balance for their goal.
Nobody wants their site to be hacked. But one myth that we all need to let go is that there is something you can do that will make it 100% impossible for someone to hack into your website. The only 100% effective way to not be hacked is to not have a website. If there…
Is your site slow? If so, it’s a bigger issue than ever before. Last weekend I attended WordCamp US and one of the big sessions that was standing room only was a talk called “A View from Google: The Latest in Search and Mobile” by Maile Ohye. Unlike many of the speakers at WordCamp, Maile isn’t…
There’s been a lot of talk about SSL lately, mostly because next year Google Chrome is going to start showing alerts in the browser on unencrypted sites. But they’ve been pushing for encryption for two years now. It’s been a ranking factor in their search algorithm for two years and now even WordPress is pushing for…
I love WordCamp. This weekend, I had the opportunity to go to the second annual WordCamp US, and it was fantastic. What is WordCamp? WordCamp is a conference that’s all about WordPress. They have smaller ones all over the country all the time. I’ve been to them in Las Vegas, Chicago, Columbus, and Boston, as…
CDN stands for Content Delivery Network. It’s basically a network of servers that deliver static content from websites to users based on their geographic location. So let me break this down for you to try to make it more clear, because it can be confusing. When you go to a website like sumydesigns.com, that website…
Getting started using Google AdWords can be really daunting and confusing. Luckily, we’re here to help you out. One of the things people get most confused about is keyword bidding. What is keyword bidding? When ads are set up in Google, you select your keyword phrases. These are the terms that you hope will trigger…
We have a lot of to be thankful for here at Sumy Designs, more than we could possibly put in one blog post. But, in the spirit of being thankful, we’d like to take a few minutes to list a few: We are incredibly thankful for our wonderful clients who have helped us survive for over…
This actually comes up quite a bit. People send me doc files but want them on their website in PDF and don’t know how to create a PDF. Well, I have a secret method of convert documents. I can convert many documents – PowerPoint to PDF, JPG to PDF, Excel to PDF, Word to PDF.…
Your logo is your identity and your identity is what separates you from your competition in the marketing world. Your visual identity has a key role in building customer relationships and it gives your product a brand. Having a brand is an important step in representing yourself and your business. If you’ve made the decision…
We don’t do a ton of e-commerce, but we do some. And one of the things people want to know is, how do I get sales? Or why am I not getting sales? And what I want to let everyone know first and foremost is this: It’s probably your fault. I don’t mean to be…
We’ve had a problem for the last couple of years. Lots of people apparently love our content so much that they choose to use it on their own websites. None of them ask us first, or give us credit, but they post it as their own. It’s frustrating. It was a year or so ago…
If you have a WordPress site, and we made it for you, then there’s a good chance you are using the Yoast SEO plugin. It’s a great plugin, and really has a lot of great options for helping you to optimize your site for the search engines. What I really want to do today is…
A few years ago, I wrote a blog post when Google announced they were going to start using SSL as a ranking factor for searches. At the time, most sites didn’t use an SSL and the ones that did were usually e-commerce or other type of site collecting sensitive data. At the time, it seemed…