Supercharging Search with generative AI

We’ve seen other SEO agencies starting to talk about “AI powered search generated experience (SGE)” and just wanted to explain what all this means. Very quickly everyone is exploding with information about AI and the average marketer is going to get overwhelmed pretty quickly. So here’s an article straight from Google that explains. Orig link:…

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Building e-commerce websites with SquareSpace

We’ve used SquareSpace on and off again for strategic brand activation projects and e-commerce websites. Certain companies benefit from ONE platform for all your needs – small businesses, 1-2 person shows, product driven and art driven showcases and start-ups. While we LOVE WordPress for its search engine optimization and easy Googlization programs, if money is…

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Why launch a WordPress Website?

In the world of ever changing, evolving technology, it’s harder to launch an activate your brand’s website and get found on search engines organically. Search engine optimization and Google advertising and online marketing can get expensive for start-ups. Survival of the fittest means those with either venture-capital backing, private family investors, angel investors or deep…

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WordPress Market Share: Usage Stats, Facts, & Research (2022)

How Popular is WordPress? Thanks WPbeginner for putting together this update for all to benefit. If you are a WordPress developer or just getting started with WordPress, you MUST begin your journey with WordPress Beginner! To learn more, see our article about the history of WordPress. WordPress is immensely popular and is used by millions of…

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What are SERPs? Search Engine Results explained by SEMRush.com

Thank you Nikolai Boroda for brilliantly weaving this perfect article. Many of our clients ask the same questions and thankfully we have some valuable explanations. I could not have put this better. Folks, if you don’t already follow SEM Rush’s blog or use SEMrush, well, you are missing something from your Search Engine Optimization plan!…

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One Signal – Website Push Notifications for Blog Subscribers & more

OneSignal Platform OneSignal is one of the fastest & most reliable services to send push notifications, in-app messages, SMS, and emails to your users on mobile and web. Know how some sites on Safari and Chrome ask you if you would like updates from their website? THIS IS IT! Want THE Guide on how to…

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Googlization is the key to your digital marketing success

Googlization Action Plan In the coming week, we will unveil dedicated pages for each of these amazing programs. SEO Package – every Google program starts here. This assume that you’ve got a website and a business to promote. Be it a service, product or non-profit, you’re going to need to rank in Google to survive! …

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Real Estate Marketing – 36 digital marketing, advertising & PR tips

You’re looking for a strategy to drive more people to you and your company and increase profits. We understand how to give you an edge over your competitors and enable you to reach people through a variety of tactics. We can not only help you generate new leads and land new deals, but we can…

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Google Site Kit – Analytics, Search Console, AdSense, Speed

Site Kit is the official WordPress plugin from Google for insights about how people find and use your site. Installing this one plugin and connecting ALL your Google products is a key to WordPress successful tracking Analytics, Search Console, AdSense, PageSpeed Insights and Tag Manager ALL IN ONE PLACE – a one-stop shop solution to…

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WordPress Hosting with Siteground

We partnered with SiteGround on more than 10 WordPress websites and have had an incredible experience. As much as we love loyalty to platforms with wonderful customer services (and fast cars) from the past, we are finding there are highly reliable partners that serve all clients needs. What we digg? Caching and Cloudflare included SSL…

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Checking WordPress website for compatibility before upgrading PHP to 7.X

If you are an digital marketing agency and you find yourself with a new client that has an older WordPress website having performance issues (or if you yourself are starting a new job managing an existing WordPress website, but not sure what’s wrong), I HIGHLY recommend that you start with an AUDIT of the website…

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WordPress 5.2.2 Update

Welcome to WordPress 5.2.2 Congratulations on updating to WordPress 5.2.2! This update makes it easier than ever to fix your site if something goes wrong. Version 5.2.2 What’s NewCreditsFreedomsPrivacy Maintenance and Security Releases Version 5.2.2 addressed 13 bugs. For more information, see the release notes. Version 5.2.1 addressed 33 bugs. For more information, see the release notes. Keeping Your Site…

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Starter Guide

If you’re interested in improving your site’s appearance on Google Search, and you’re willing to put in a little time learning about search engine optimization (SEO) and Search Console, here is your getting started guide. You don’t need to understand HTML or coding, but you do need to spend some time thinking about how your site…

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How to setup Google Analytics and Google Search Console/Webmaster Tools

Big thank you to Really Simple SSL for developing an amazing plugin that successfully forces every SSL Certificate we launch and enables https:// to kick in. This post is directly from their website! Follow these to a T! Oh wait, If you didn’t already install Really Simple SSL after Getting your SSL certificate, download here…

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End of Life of PHP 5 – Upgrade to PHP 7 by 12-31-18

Big thank you and shout out for WordFence for monitoring, managing, education and publishing key invaluable articles that help webmasters, website developers and website managers around the world protect their clients and their websites! 🙂 Next steps: 1. As always, before I do anything, ensure back-ups of website & database are in place so that…

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Digital Marketing Agency – Preliminary Scope of Work

We’ve seen a surge in referrals asking for proposals. We therefore created this page to help with intake interviews and preliminary scope of work to determine what tactics are key to our collaboration. Below is a quick preliminary scope of work list to guide our collaboration. (1) Transform brands and professionalize corporate culture. (2) Encourage collaborative environments.
(3) Facilitate process that taps into your creativity, getting into the heads of your leadership & management, and translate that vision into tangible results.

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Branding Agency near me

At the crossroads of strategy and return on engagement/return on investment, BROEKMAN communications delivers strategic brand and identity campaigns. We’ve worked with 100s of clients over a nearly 20 year period. As tech-savvy, innovative and hard-working GenXers at heart coupled with the drive, motivation, determination and persistence of hit-the-ground-running prove-yourself 20-somethings, we’ve got the perfect…

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WordPress Maintenance and Security

WORDPRESS MAINTENANCE & UPGRADES For over 15 years, we’ve been developing, managing, updating and moderating WordPress-based websites. One thing we’ve learned along the way, similar to ANY website and ANY content management system, keeping the foundation integrity solid requires minimal, but constant digital TLC = aka love, care and maintenance (like any relationship!). In today’s…

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WordPress maintenance

WORDPRESS MAINTENANCE & UPGRADES For over 10 years, we’ve been developing, managing, updating and moderating WordPress-based websites. One thing we’ve learned along the way, similar to ANY website and ANY content management system, keeping the foundation integrity solid requires minimal, but constant love and care = AKA maintenance.As part of our one-off or monthly retainers,…

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Real Estate Publicist Jeremy Broekman

Why is my site slow?

SEMRUSH produced THE best Page Speed tutorial ever and deserve incredible street cred for assembling a real solution. If you are embarking on self fixes, use the below! ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE: https://www.semrush.com/blog/page-speed What Is Page Speed? Page speed (also called “load speed”) measures how fast the content of a page loads. From an SEO standpoint,…

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Heatmaps – tracking what visitors click on your website

Tracking visitors with Google Analytics or Statcounter is one thing, but really understanding what catches their eye and what they click on? COME ON, you totally want to know. WELL thanks to APPSUMO, we’ve got a free wordpress plugin to install. Heat maps with 1-click will show you instantly where people are clicking so you…

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Elevating organizational culture with effective communication

BROEKMAN communications is now officially a partner with Organic Communication. Organic Communication coaches are experts in Organizational Development, Leadership Training & Executive Coaching. We work with executives, managers and teams who are ready to achieve more satisfying and successful interactions with colleagues, clients and customers. Our clients want to improve their internal and external communication and collaboration. We…

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Themeforest – favorite source for WordPress Themes

Professional WordPress Themes & Website Templates for any project Discover thousands of easy to customize themes, templates & CMS products, made by world-class developers. At Themeforest, you can buy website templates aka themes for WordPress in addition to HTML, Shopify, Magento, Jamstack, and many other content management systems like Joomla and Drupal with prices ranging…

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Search Engine Optimization

SEO is real strength of ours. We have a proven track record with SEO basics as part of our Wordpress Website Development projects. We follow many benchmark best practices. We deploy plugins to strengthen site content, communicate better with bots, yield better search engine results and get 1st page ranking quickly. We offer a number of ways to do “after market” SEO programs. Core focus is to yield some natural great ‘organic search’ strength!

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