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Outdoor marketing articles with a mix of information about website development, branding, SEO and marketing tips on how to run your business more efficiently.
The Ever-Changing World of Website Design
December 22, 2016 by 3plains
Designing for the web is a rollercoaster ride of fads and technology. Every time someone comes up with some new trick with HTML5, or CSS3, or even a javascript library everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon to “keep up with everyone else”. Here’s the problem with that. The latest fads don’t work for everyone. New languages and new technology aren’t always better. The old adage “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” rings truer than ever these days.
Read MoreContent Editing 101
November 10, 2016 by 3plains
How can I properly paste text into the textarea when I edit my web page?
Read MoreGoogle Penguin Update 4.0
October 02, 2016 by Ryan Trask
Has your SEMRush, SEOMoz, Google Analytics Account, or other Tracking Software been bouncing around here in the last several weeks? Well, there is possibly a reason for that - Google Penguin 4.0.
Read MoreThe Pharma Hack & SEO Implications
September 29, 2016 by Ryan Trask
We usually have multiple projects going at once and I'm one of the multiple 3plains employees who are working on any given project at one time. Typically I'm involved with the setup, the launch and the search engine marketing side of projects. For this project, my employee had noted in the initial project ticket that when this new client had signed on, that his rankings were not what they used to be - in fact "terrible" was the word used multiple times.
Read MoreResponsive Design and the “Mobile First” Philosophy
September 14, 2016 by 3plains
Responsive Design. A term that’s been thrown around so much in the last 5 years we hardly know what it truly means anymore. What is Responsive Design? What is Responsive Development? I break it all down in this article and why we created a hybrid of Responsive Design and Adaptive Design for our new website.
Read More11 Most Common On-Site SEO Issues
July 21, 2016 by Ryan Trask
If you want your website to rank well in Google and the other search engines, it's necessary you understand the basics first. SEM Rush collected anonymous data on 100,000 websites and 450 million pages using SEMrush’s Site Audit tool to determine top SEO issues and how many websites these issues affect.
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