SEO

I typically cherish the utmost in privacy when it comes to personal life. However, recently someone close to me achieved such an impressive amount of free web traffic without spending a dime that I simply had to share their experience! Toward the end of 2015, I had finally convinced “her” to launch a blog and […]

Yet another new service announced at LittleBizzy this year as we roll out dedicated SSL certificates today. The truth is that, despite tons of talk regarding SSL in the past few years, the topic is still a big source of confusion among website owners and developers, and thus continues to be one of the biggest […]

Although the robots.txt file can be used for any website, it is especially important for dynamically generated websites such as those based on the WordPress platform. Why? Because dynamic CMS systems like WordPress tend to create (potentially) dozens or even thousands of pages (URLs) that don’t need to be public. Not only can this lead […]

As with pretty much every buzzword and digital marketing trend, the concept of TTFB has proven to maintain lasting controversy within the so-called SEO community as hundreds of bloggers and developers continue to bring it up on discussion forums, in comment threads, at marketing conferences, and in other venues for several years on end. TTFB, […]

If you are not aware, back in 2013 Facebook added the ability for users to “review” any business by simply going to the Reviews tab of their Facebook page and leaving a quick comment along with a “stars” rating on the traditional 1-5 scale. Just a few short years later, Facebook has already become one […]

This is a follow up post to my previous post on ranking #1 world-wide for the search phrase “Upwork sucks” in less than 3 weeks. Ranking at the top of Google for a controversial phrase and welcoming thousands of freelancers to click, comment, and share the heck out of a story that made them feel […]

If there’s one thing webmasters have learned over the past decade, it’s that Google trends come and go. In some cases it’s not even worth noting certain changes in the Google-sphere because they are truly so unpredictable! In this case, the ‘Submit URL’ tool is one resource that all webmasters should be keenly aware of. […]

When Juliette Sawyer, a professional photographer based in Doha, Qatar approached me earlier this year, she was looking to improve two specific issues: firstly, her web hosting at GoDaddy was under-performing to the point that when visitors from Qatar loaded her homepage, they couldn’t even view her online photographs at times; secondly, despite her growing […]

The fact that I’m sharing this story may shock some of my beloved readers — after all, a large number of current LittleBizzy clients first found me via Upwork.com, the freelance marketplace that this post will in part criticize. But since I believe strongly in transparency and “real life” case studies, here we are. So […]

As the 21st century marches onward and things like “smart devices” and “drones” and “3D printers” become the latest buzz, one truth remains in the digital age: Google has retained its steadfast grip (read: complete monopoly) on all things search. Despite initial scares from Facebook’s widely announced Open Graph technology, and Microsoft’s desperate attempts at […]