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Patrick Hare

Web Pages and Spammy Content

Does Your Web Page Look Spammy?

To maintain its credibility and ensure repeat visits, Google is always trying to improve the results it delivers to users. As part of their work to enhance the customer experience, engineers at Google have been working to identify the types of pages that appear to be “spammy,” or that are not sufficiently relevant to any [...]

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Page Previews and Website Traffic

Page Preview: Looking Good Before People Even Get to Your Website

If your website is unappealing in a thumbnail view, people might ignore your site before they even click on a link to it. But with an effective preview of your site, you have an opportunity to increase your website traffic and the dollars that the traffic generates. How good does your website look in miniature? [...]

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Website Design Tips

Website Design: Tips for Keeping Your Site Fresh and Appealing

Many small business owners still abide by the “set it and forget” philosophy of website design. As a result, their sites can begin to look stale or outdated compared to ones that are newer or frequently updated. Information on a website can become outdated for a number of reasons. You might be offering new services, [...]

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Website Content That Attracts Customers

Attract More Customers with In-Depth Website Content

At Web.com, we have hundreds of thousands of “Mom and Pop” customers who are running their own businesses. Many of them have local shops, and some of them are running a home-based enterprise on top of their “9 to 5” jobs. Nonetheless, we haven’t run across many businesses that have so many customers that they [...]

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Keeping Your Website Design Fresh and Competitive

Keeping Your Website Fresh and Competitive

Website design trends can change quickly, which means that sites that aren’t kept up-to-date can get stale over time in the minds of their users. When people come to a website that appears outdated, they’re less likely to make a purchase. And because very few people will come out and tell you that your site [...]

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