Your Competitors Aren’t Magic. They’re Just Out-Researching You.
We’ve all done it. You’ve definitely Googled your own business, then immediately clicked on your competitor’s site to see what they’re up to. But most people just look at the home page, get annoyed that they’re ranking higher, and close the tab. That’s not a plan. That’s just being a spectator. If you want to […]
What Your Competitors Are Doing Better Than You Online
Most businesses don’t lose online because they’re bad or not as good as the competition. They lose because someone else is slightly clearer, slightly faster, or slightly easier to trust. That difference adds up. If a competitor consistently outranks you or seems to dominate paid ads in your space, it’s rarely accidental. They’re usually doing […]
Combining Paid Search and Organic SEO: A One-Two Punch
Paid search and organic SEO are often handled separately. Different goals. Different expectations. Sometimes even different teams. That split usually creates gaps that don’t need to exist. Both channels are doing the same thing at a basic level. They’re trying to capture user intent. The difference is in timing. Paid search works immediately. SEO doesn’t. […]
Your SEO Checklist for the Year
A Monthly Plan That Actually Holds Up SEO doesn’t fail because people don’t know what to do. It fails because everything gets treated as urgent, permanent, and equally important. Algorithms don’t work that way. Neither do humans. The most reliable SEO strategies I’ve seen weren’t aggressive or clever. They were boring in the best possible […]
The 2026 Web: What Matters After the Noise Fades
Let’s be honest: a lot of web “trends” are just rebranded distractions. By the time something shows up in a marketing PDF or a LinkedIn post, the teams doing real work have already moved on. If you’re launching a website in 2026, your biggest competition isn’t design. It’s attention span. You’re not just trying to […]
What Every Business Owner Needs to Know about Web Hosting
Recently, a friend looking for cheap hosting reached out to me and said the important things to know about web hosting seem to be disk usage and inodes and could I help him understand that? I replied that in most cases inodes are not nearly important as several other factors. Here are the things I […]
Web Hosting Unraveled
There are lots of different web hosting levels. You can pick the web hosting company that most fits your needs and budget. If you are a do-it-yourselfer that likes to geek out on all-things-technology, you can use an inexpensive host like GoDaddy or BlueHost. If you are focused on growing your business, you will want […]
The Ugly Baby
You’ve probably seen this – a parent who is so proud of their beautiful baby that the rest of the world is afraid to tell them the truth. The same thing often happens with web sites. Especially websites put together in house. “We ‘birthed’ this site and it is gorgeous” is the mentality that folks […]
Google’s Suite of Tools – Is There a Cost?
We recently attended an event where Google flew in a trainer to present on Google My Business, Optimizing your website for Google and Pay Per Click campaigns. It was a very good presentation from a polished speaker but the mantra we heard again and again is “This is all free.” Free is an interesting concept. […]
Little Data
In the Internet world, Big Data is a big buzz word. With the right tools huge volumes of data can be digested, analyzed, and summarized with amazing speed. Technology like this is what is driving technical inroads in an array of industries from understanding the human genome to making digital currency like Bitcoin to understanding […]