For those that don’t know, Google makes most of their money by having businesses advertise around Google’s free online products: Google search, gmail, blogger, YouTube… “Do people click on Google ads? I don’t.” Yes, Virginia, searchers do, in fact, do click on the ads when they search for products and services on Google. Here are […]
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Redirects between subdomains [WordPress multisite] in WP Engine – so far.
To split my site up into Digital Marketing and Writing, I had to take the Googley-Woogley posts out of my writing site and migrate them to this subdomain. To do it properly meant 301ing the URLs from the Writing site over to the Digital Marketing. I went to check WP Engine’s redirect page. It’s cool, […]
Setting Multisite with Subdomains in WP Engine [WordPress]: What I need to remember in the future.
Here’s what I did wrong when setting up the WordPress multisite feature in WP Engine I didn’t set the subdomain, which I had to do because I do not have the wildcard set for the domain in WP Engine. The error I was getting I kept getting a DNS error in my web browser. I […]
How we set [formerly 3, back to] 2 Google Voice Numbers to forward to our cell phone
The solution that worked for us Google Voice >> Settings >> “Forwards calls to:” [Pick your number] >> Edit >> “Phone Type:” drop down: Select one phone type for this Google Voice and set a different phone type for your phone number in the other Google Voice account. You have up to three phone types […]
[WordPress] Contact Form 7 and reCAPTCHA Issues Solved…8 Years Later.
Article Outline My Issue was PEBKAC Other steps to try Quick refresher on how to merge Contact Form 7 to reCAPTCHA on WordPress Very Lost? Try these resources… Addendum: Why it took 8 years (Don’t judge me). After 8 years, I finally figured out how to get Contact Form 7 to work – with reCAPTCHA […]
How to conduct online keyword research (or realize you already started and didn’t know it).
If you’ve been following along in the How to Start a Digital Web Presence setup series, then to this point you’ve already started your keyword research. Surprise! If you haven’t been, first read our article on “Monitoring and measuring competitors’ online activities w/ these Tools.” “How so?” Because: You now use tools to monitor your […]
Monitoring and measuring competitors’ online activities w/ these Tools. AKA, "Put on Ears."
Task List for this step Set up a new Google Account and record account details in your password / account storage files Subscribe to Email Alerts Subscribe to RSS Feeds Set up Google Alerts Social Media Tracking and Measurement with Hootsuite SEM Tracking with SEMRush SEO Tracking and Ranking Measurement with Moz The next step […]
How I set up Google Analytics profiles. I do them the same for agencies, clients, friends, family, myself…
Here are the tools you’re going to need to perform the task. It’s essentially the same set of tools for any HTML / CSS / jS front end work coupled with some Google properties. If your website requires an FTP uploader, GitHub, or the like, you’ll need that as well. Requirements Your Google account Place […]
Letter submitted to NWIMeetup The Originals: Bringing It Home 2016
The morning before the #NWIMeetup The Originals: Bringing It Home 2016 meetup, Chris Mahlmann emailed both Allyn Hane and I to see if there was a note or the like we wanted to pass along to the group since neither one of us would be in the same timezone as the event that night. I’m […]
Measuring Competitor Activity in the Digital Space [Digital Marketing Web Presence Setup Step 3]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] At this point we assume that you have gone through the painstaking business of conducting market and competitor research for your business. If your existing business has been around a while, we’re hoping you’ve have made updates to those plans to keep with the current market conditions. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The reason we point this out is […]