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"Currently Not Indexed" in Google Search Console Causes & Fixes

Learn how to fix "Crawled - currently not indexed" and "Discovered - currently not indexed" in Google Search Console.

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How Often Should You Redesign Your Website?

Learn how often to redesign your website, the signs it needs a redesign, & how to keep it fresh.

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How to Rank in Google (Search Engine Ranking Factors)

How can your website rank higher in Google? Learn the SEO factors that contribute to ranking in Google, and questions to ask yourself for each factor.

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Why We Love Flywheel, Managed WordPress Host

Learn how managed WordPress hosting from Flywheel can make your site faster, more secure, and more reliable.

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For Good SEO, Give Your Visitors What They Want [Checklist]

The general idea behind SEO (search engine optimization) is simple: Google wants your website to give searchers what they want. This checklist will help you set up your website for better SEO.

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WordPress Maintenance: Keep Your Site Secure & Running Smoothly [Video & Slides]

What can happen if you don't maintain WordPress? What are useful plugins, tools, processes, services? What's a good maintenance schedule? Get answers now.

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Security, Speed, & Google Rank: The Next Phase of WordPress Maintenance

What’s the next phase of WordPress Maintenance? At OptimWise, it’s improving website security, speed, and SEO.

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How to Declutter Your WordPress Website

I love decluttering! I get a dopamine hit when I delete, clean, and remove anything unnecessary. I'm a big fan of decluttering WordPress websites, too. Let's look at why and how to declutter various areas of WordPress. Why Declutter? Why bother decluttering your WordPress site? Now, let's declutter our way through several areas of WordPress. But first, […]

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Business Website Mistakes: Chamber Tech Lunch

Are you making mistakes with your small business website? Business websites exist to sell, directly or indirectly. Small businesses often lose sight of that, and make mistakes with the content, design, marketing, and technical aspects of their sites. Learn how to fix these mistakes so your site delivers business results. I gave this presentation, Website […]

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Why Your Website Shouldn’t Have Sliders, and Alternatives to Them

Sliders (AKA carousels or rotators) have become incredibly popular on WordPress websites, and websites in general. Sliders commonly display images, but can also display text and video. They are frequently used on home pages, but can appear on any page. More often than not, clients ask us to put them on their sites. The problem […]

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SiteGround: fast, secure WordPress hosting

SiteGround is an excellent WordPress-optimized shared host. They're fast, secure, and reliable, yet inexpensive. They're the host I most frequently recommend to small business and nonprofit clients.  From firsthand experience, I've found their plans to be superior to similar hosting plans from GoDaddy, Bluehost, DreamHost, Hostmonster, HostGator, iPage, and small local hosting companies. For clients with larger and/or […]

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What does a small business WordPress website need?

"What does a small business website need?" This was one of the many questions asked at the Small Business Tech Panel at the Warehaüs, a coworking space in Holland, Michigan in March 2014. Here's an expanded version of the answer I gave. The items (in no particular order) are as follows: Effective content (text, images, video) Too […]

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