Laravel App Development 101: Why MVC Is The MVP
Our JustRightCRM is built on the Laravel framework. So let’s begin our web app series with learning about Laravel’s basic structure: MVC.
JustRightCRM – A CRM We Built … For Fun!
JustRightCRM was an app we built just for funsies, and we also ended up learning a heck of a lot.
2 Ways To Make Site Updates Lickety-Split
Need ways to make site updates without a lot of time or moo-la? Check out these two options to update your site lickety-split.
Mad Cow Customizer for WooCommerce
Mad Cow Customizer is a plugin that catalogs all the hooks in WooCommerce and offers a WYSIWYG so you can easily manage the content in your online store.
Domains, DNS, Hosting, Oh my!
This is in no way to be an exhaustive review of DNS, but more of a basic guideline for messing with your domain. In general, this is a scary place to mess around if you’re not super comfortable. My main piece of advice is to enlist the help of your
I ain’t scared…. much….
Alright. I had to make a video embed shortcode for a client and figured some folks may want to peek at it and maybe use it. Basically, this allows your clients to add videos into their pages, include some padding and float, yet maintain the beauty of responsive design. Currently
Check Yo Self!
All the SEO efforts in the world will do you no good if you fail to evaluate your results. Much like anything you strive for, losing weight, gaining muscle, learning a new skill, etc., you won’t really know if you are improving if you don’t measure it somehow. I’m not
Phinding Phrases
This past week I had an opportunity to chat with a client about keyword identification and research. I know this is a topic we have covered in the past, but it bears revisiting. When you are heading down the road of optimizing your site for search engines (SEO), the
Get Your Nerd On!
Put on your thinking caps today. We’re going to get a little nerdy here in mid-summer! We have talked, a bunch, about the “big picture” of SEO. Important steps like doing your keyword research, optimizing your site with those phrases and making sure you have dedicated landing pages for the
Picking the Perfect Phrases (for SEO)
Here’s hoping your 4th of July was explosive! I read, this morning, that the Fort Collins police received 200 complaints about fireworks over the weekend. This tells me 2 things. First, I still don’t understand why fireworks are illegal. Yes, they can be dangerous but so is a car, motorcycle,
Expose Yourself, Yourself!
It is no secret there is no shortage of people out there willing to take your money in exchange for “improving your presence on search engines” or “improving your exposure on “businessListings.com”. They will claim to “update your web presence, add videos, improve your listing on Google, etc. While this
A Little Keyword 101
If you have headed down the road of Search Engine Optimization, you are familiar with the importance of “keyword phrases”. These are the bread and butter of any organization’s SEO strategy and are the “meat” in the Internet marketing sandwich. (or soy burger if you prefer!) Using the data from
Micro? Meta? Know Your SEO Terms
Are you using “microdata”? Coming from the “You learn something new everyday” category, no longer is meta-data the “be-all/end-all” for your SEO code rangers. While most of us are at least familiar with meta tags and their usage, a normal HTML tag doesn’t give the search engines any data related
Don't Forget Your Tags!
While I would agree that adding “title” and “alt” tags on your images is of lesser importance to your overall SEO strategy than the “title meta-tag” or certainly, good content. They are still worth considering as part of the big picture. When adding an image (or even a link) to
Who's Searching What?
As I mentioned earlier, knowing what people are searching for, to find your website, is very important to your overall SEO and marketing strategy. I tend to look at this data in two different ways. On the one hand, the group of people that are already searching for phrases you
Stuck On Statistics
Statistics is not just a hard word to say but also a challenging thing to wrap your brain around from a marketing perspective. You can learn a lot about your visitors and “potential” visitors by reviewing your website traffic, visitor behavior patterns, newsletter/social media posting data and even tracking the
Constantly Consistent
Add a little consistency to your page. If you are stuck with an older, perhaps “outdated” website, the chore of updating it might be a little more than you want to tackle. As I keep praising the idea of “content is king”, you might be dreading the update process since
Get The Word Out!
This week’s tip comes to us from the land of the Ginsu knives, the Magic Bullet, Tony Little’s Gazelle or even the Snuggie. The main thing these items have in common, besides making you blush when you admit you own one (or MORE than 1, in the case of the
What do you mean I have to PAY for Facebook?
Sure, Facebook is free. It is free to sign up. It is free to create a business/fan page. It is free to post updates about your business, images, videos, etc. It is free to build your very own “views” and add Youtube videos, contact options, and a bevy of other
Coming In For A Landing
We have certainly covered “content” being the best thing for your website and one of the best strategies for SEO (search engine optimization), but what about creating a place for that content to live? With my Fort Collins SEO business, I work with businesses every day to optimize their pages
