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Local SEO Tips for Small Business Owners

Local SEO is the optimization of a website for local search results. Smaller businesses who only have local clients should be focusing their local SEO. Four reasons why small businesses need local SEO: Helps you target locals. Local SEO is very important for mobile searches and it helps you grow local connections. Local SEO adds […]

Everything You Need to Succeed: Website Hosting Plans

How does a $10/month website become a $50/month website hosting fiasco? One add-on at a time. The major players in the web hosting world (you may have seen their Super Bowl ads) like to lure customers in with what at first seems to be a very attractive monthly website hosting rate, but it is quickly […]

The Impact of Geofencing Technology

This story was featured in the Fall edition of The Urban Connection Central PA’s leading publication for diversity, inclusion and multicultural news. To get the strongest impact for a business, non-profit, or recruiting effort a look at geofencing technology is likely the most powerful method of getting your message to the right individuals.  The internet has […]

Hiring Experts: The Parable of the Digital Marketer and the Broken Toilet

In July of 2019, Nathan Neil, the founder and primary project manager of LaunchUX had a problem: His toilet was very much broken. From previous work that he had done on his home, he already had a contractor on call. However, the contractor was unavailable at that exact moment, so rather than wait, Nathan made […]

The Impact of Site Speed

With the increasing competition in the online world, business professionals are more curious to know the best tactics to ensure audience satisfaction. They are looking for new SEO matric to boost their online presence; but beyond all, they often forget to manage their website speed online. No matter how much time you spend to create […]

The Benefits of Blogs for Search Engine Optimization and Content Marketing

As part of our content marketing services, LaunchUX writes, optimizes and maintains blogs for some of our clients. We primarily write them for regional companies in specialized, highly competitive fields where enhancing SEO rankings and establishing expertise are equally important. And blogs are a great way to achieve both. At LaunchUX, we understand that you […]

Google My Business Part Two: Google Versus Facebook – or – Search Goes Social

In his book “The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google,” author Scott Galloway makes the case that it is very difficult for the average person to get through the day without interacting with at least one of these companies. Many people interact with all four of these companies regularly. These companies […]

Google My Business Part One: Better Search Ranking, Better Search Results

We’ve spoken before on this blog about Google’s long-view approach towards overall web optimization, which rewards: “Secure, fast-loading websites that deliver quality, regularly-updated content whether it is accessed on a computer, a smartphone or a tablet while maintaining an active social media presence.” It’s a bit of a mouthful, but contained within that single (run-on) […]

Mobile Friendly Sites Have Never Been More Important

In 2016, it was reported that 51.3% of website traffic came from mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets. The typical computer usage in that year was 48.7%. It is nearly 2019 and not surprisingly it is estimated that mobile usage is now nearing 60%. With mobile usage on the rise and already dominating internet […]

A-B Testing Part Two: Split-Testing for Social Media

For much of the history of advertising, it has been very difficult to identify exactly how successful a campaign actually was. A hit ad might coincide with increased sales, but it was up to the agency to demonstrate a connection between the two. Unless customers had to present the physical ad (often as a coupon) […]