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A Brief Look Back on How I Got Into Website Development and Digital Marketing

Josh Robert Nay

I caught the website design and digital marketing bugs in high school, when I took my very first steps into web development with an HTML coding class that I stepped out of my comfort zone to take. Over the last 18-plus years since beginning this web design and development journey, I have leveraged a wide range of modern technologies and platforms, including HTML5, PHP, WordPress/WooCommerce, Magento, and Shopify, to build dozens of websites and develop content for both businesses and individuals. Throughout this period and continuing to this day, SEO has been a major focus. My coding specialties include HTML5,

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Josh Robert Nay Recently Ranked #63 Best Web Design Agency in Utah

Josh Robert Nay

Josh Robert Nay starts 2021 on a high note as it was ranked #63 among all web design agencies and professional web designers in Utah, based on a web-design market-share analysis conducted by SEOlium. We are truly humbled and excited to be on this list, especially since they used data, not voting or a popularity contest, to determine rankings. In their own words… “This isn’t one of those web design contests where agency owners submit an application and then a jury decides who gets what. We had a different idea. We asked ourselves: “Who knows what’s best for the people

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What You Need To Know About Small Business SEO

Josh Robert Nay

SEO is one of the most important factors in determining whether your customers find your small business website, or a rival one – that makes it crucial to your company’s revenue stream. While SEO is multi-faceted and ever-evolving, I’ve pinpointed the crucial things that you need to know if you run a small business. What is SEO & why should my SME care about it anyway? SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and it’s a tactic for getting your website to feature as high as possible in search results. Why is that important to your small business? Because the higher

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Getting Your Personal Website Designed With You in Mind

Josh Robert Nay

Starting a personal blog or website can be tasking, particularly during the early design phase. This is a time when you’re just getting started, trying to find your niche, and just starting to place the building blocks that will hopefully turn into a successful website someday soon. Relying on do it yourself (DIY) website builder that sometimes fall short can add to some of the stress. After all, you just want to sit down and start typing that blog entry or sharing your site with others. Good websites take time, but great websites take a lot of time and effort.

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Getting Started in SEO: Building a Brand Worth Searching For

Josh Robert Nay

Even in today’s digital age, many companies and executives don’t know about that three-letter acronymn that makes all websites discoverable in search engines. Yes, SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. If you’re not familiar with SEO, then it’s recommended that you read some SEO frequently asked questions to help shed some light on the subject. Now, it’s true that SEO can and does increase sales overall. But that’s not — and shouldn’t be — its primary purpose. Instead, there are some important attributes of SEO that help businesses large or small become successful. Brand Identity Brand Identity has become a vastly

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Getting Your Small Business Website Professionally Designed

Josh Robert Nay

Small business website design is important but difficult, and let’s face it, starting your own small business can be stressful enough (though, of course, but it can also be rewarding). One of the biggest stresses that seem to pop up, particularly in E-Commerce websites during the early design phase, is actually how to go about getting a website built in the first place, since most successful businesses today have their own websites. It’s true, there are various do it yourself (DIY) website builders that you can utilize yourself, but many fall short of providing the intuitive services that your small

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Making the Web Faster: Upcoming Google Search Update Will Target Slow Mobile Sites

Josh Robert Nay

If you’re hoping to get your mobile website in front of more eyeballs in Google Search, you’d better start with increasing your website’s speed, and you should do it before July 2018. A recent announcement by the search giant revealed the lengths it’s going to integrate site speed into its latest search algorithm change coming this summer. According to Google: The “Speed Update,” as we’re calling it, will only affect pages that deliver the slowest experience to users and will only affect a small percentage of queries. It applies the same standard to all pages, regardless of the technology used

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SEO is NOT Dead… Far, Far From It

Josh Robert Nay

I recently read a post on social media from a person who (while remaining nameless) was supposed to be an expert in his field. This post, however, got under my skin because he essentially called SEO (Search Engine Optimization) a fruitless endeavor, saying it was “dead” and calling on companies to make their investments elsewhere. I truly hope this person is not an advisor for companies in his spare time. Here’s the truth. SEO is not dead. Backlinks? Yes, it’s true that backlinks are now one of the least important parts of SEO nowadays. While still somewhat relevant, they’ve taken a

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Show “Starting At” Price and Hide Maximum Price in WooCommerce

Josh Robert Nay

This is a relatively simple code, but it does require modifying the functions.php file in your child theme, which is not recommended unless you are familiar with how to edit a functions.php file in WordPress. This code will allow you to display the minimum price with a “Starting at” prior to it rather than a price range (which, let’s admit, can be a turn-off to some price-conscious customers). You can see a demonstration of how this works in the screenshot above. This is a screenshot of it in action on my client HEALTHandMED‘s website. Note, you can change “Starting at”

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Boost Your Website by Enabling Compression via Your Server .htaccess File in cPanel or Through FTP

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Every little thing you do on your server can either make or break your site, and can also go a long way in boosting your site’s overall performance, thereby boosting your ranking in search engines such as Google and Bing. Enabling compression through your server’s .htaccess file is one such performance booster and is quite simple to do. Via FTP or your cPanel host backend, access your .htaccess file and enter the following code: # Enable Compression <IfModule mod_deflate.c> AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-opentype AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-otf AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-truetype

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