As of July 2022 Google My Business doesn't exist anymore. That leaves our small business clients wondering how to communicate with their online customers who previously used GMB to reach out with questions, inquiries and general communication. Klages Web Design has the answer! The Google Maps app will be the best place for replying to [...]
Yes, it's true, the Google My Business App is no longer available. We all knew it was coming but we hoped it couldn’t be true! However, when a user clicks to open the Google My Business app on their phone, they now get a message directing them to manage their Google Business Profile (GBP) from [...]
Making your website more user-friendly allows you to fulfill your visitors’ needs. Not only that, but it also enables you to define the brand-consumer relationship and guide users to the actions you want them to take. A user-friendly website will attract more visitors, and visitors will stick around longer, thus increasing conversions. In this article, [...]
For more than a decade, UpCity’s mission has been—and continues to be—to help businesses find B2B service providers they can trust. The UpCity Recommendability Rating was developed to determine a service provider’s credibility and recommendability, giving UpCity the confidence to recommend them to the more than 1.5 million businesses that visit their site. Each year, [...]
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For the past several years, we’ve moved toward a more secure web by strongly advocating that sites adopt HTTPS encryption. And within the last year, Google has helped users understand that HTTP sites are not secure by gradually marking a larger subset of HTTP pages as “not secure”. Beginning in July 2018 with the release [...]
Now it should go without saying that my PG&E bill is never overdue. So when I recieved the following email just a few days ago, I knew instantly that something was fishy. Scam emails come in all forms – double check emails that claim to come from PG&E and other utilities How to determine whether [...]
One of the most worrisome things you’ll ever see turn up in your e-mail inbox is a deluge of messages each comprised of a long block of text, usually cut-and-pasted from a work of literature. Messaging security company AppRiver says this means you’re a targeted victim in an unfolding attack — in what it calls [...]
Google Admits to Serving Random Search Results…Especially When you’re Paying Attention Ever get the feeling that the search results you’re getting are changing every time you click the ‘search’ button even while using the same query? We know you’ve had that ‘WTF is going on’ thought when you’re trying to show a client or employer [...]
This is why keyword research takes a lot of work to do well. Good SEO begins with good keyword research. After all, if you don’t know the ways people are seeking your content, it’s pretty hard to ensure that your content “speaks” to them using the words they search for. The folks at Promodo created [...]
Convincing spam is the new normal It looks like an email from PayPal, but a closer look reveals it’s a fraud! Who did it really come from? Where does it really lead? What is this emails real purpose? Check out the version I received, and let me explain what this email shows me. This [...]
Something big happened in the worlds of social media and search this month. After much speculation about search engines factoring social media influence into website rankings, we got hold of a big interview with Bing and Google to find out that indeed, social media IS affecting search rankings. BIG STUFF! What I mean is, if [...]
Google Wants The Best of the Best ONLY Now The old approach for ranking well on Google was to create lots of content to dominate a particular space or niche. That game is now obsolete. As both search and the web mature, Google must now work more rigorously to consume greater quantities of data [...]
Just because I like to keep my clients and associates up to speed on whatever I happen to be looking at, learning about, or working with when it happens to be interesting and not beyond technical in nature, here’s a cool new one to check out: Cool Ap for your phone and iPad… check out: [...]
Hey everybody – check out this free tool called Close Window to close windows (all open application windows) at once in windows 7. Quite often, many of us tend to keep open several applications, browsers, windows explorer, office application files, text documents and more. At the end of the day, when we want to shutdown [...]
