LauraWebsite speed isn’t just a nice-to-have anymore—it’s become the foundation of successful online business. Canadian companies face some unique hurdles when it comes to website performance. We’re talking about serving users across massive distances while competing with international sites that might have serious technical advantages. The numbers don’t lie: studies consistently show that even a…
LauraLet’s say you’re on your way to work and as you’re taking your usual route, you find that the road is closed due to repaving. You spot the familiar orange detour sign, and you follow it in order to get around the road closure and on to your destination. While the above example takes place…
Guest AuthorIn this article, we look at the reasons why your business is seeing high traffic but low conversions. Plus, we provide tips on how to optimize conversion rates.
Webnames.ca StaffThousands of domains drop every week. Some owners don’t want their domains anymore, some forget to renew them, heck, some businesses close and renewing their domain is the last thing on their mind. But what a lot of website owners don’t know is the actual value a domain can have beyond just being an address…
Christian CarereEvery website should have SEO baked into its overall marketing strategy to promote growth. It’s a necessary evil when it comes to generating new clients from search engines. Here are a few SEO tips to increase organic traffic to your small business website. Establish a topical keyword strategy Approach your keyword strategy from a topical…
Neil LimIn this article, we share the best SEO plugins for WordPress to optimize your website and rank better on search engines. Search engines are a major source of traffic for most websites so optimizing your pages to rank on Google is important. With tons of SEO plugins available on WordPress, our customers often ask us…
Neil LimHow to move your website to a new domain, the right way. There are a lot of reasons to move your website to a new domain name. From re-branding your business to acquiring a more relevant domain name, migrating takes a lot of work. It’s easy to think that moving simply involves copy and pasting content…
Webnames.ca StaffAfter largely ignoring the search function at the top of the Facebook interface for years, the social media giant is finally implementing improvements to its search function. On January 15, Facebook unveiled Graph Search. Facebook Graph Search is a significant improvement over their old “search bar”, that gave results that were uninteresting or unrelated to…
Webnames.ca StaffWebnames.ca President and Co-founder, Cybele Negris was featured on the new WestEnder in Vancouver, and she talks with Kelsey Klassen about new gTLDs and how they will revolutionize the Internet domain. The launch of the new gTLDs will be the biggest domain name landrush in the history of the Internet. As the launch date of…
Webnames.ca StaffWebnames.ca is thrilled to announce the new pricing options for the FastTrack Program! Webnames.ca first introduced the FastTrack program in 2011 with small businesses in mind. Built to fulfill the needs of small businesses, FastTrack offered customers an affordable, quick to launch and professional solution to their website design needs.FastTrack has become a great resource…
Webnames.ca StaffYou’ve built your website, it’s been working well for a while, but it’s time for an update. Keeping your website the same for too long is like not updating the paint on your home. Eventually it starts to look outdated. Looking at your website as something that needs to be refreshed and updated is the…
Webnames.ca StaffThe people at Telnic have just added some really great new features to help you get the most out of your .tel domain.Google Analytics for .telAll .tel owners can now utilize their Google Analytics accounts to monitor visitors and clicks on their .tel domain! If you are not already using Google Analytics you should sign…
Garrett SaundryThe Social Search. How it Works: Google and Bing are changing the way we are use the internet….. again. Social Search has been created and both Bing and Google have their own takes on it. So what is it? Social Search is a new addition to the old search engine that allows users to opt-in…
Webnames.ca StaffWe launched our Search Engine Optimization service last month and I wanted to give you a taste of what I learned from our (frankly) brilliant SEO consultants. There are some fast and easy things you can do that should garner you noticeable improvements in your search engine ranking. #1 quick win – The Title Tag.…
JuliannaWe recently came across an article on CanuckSEO.com that measures the effectiveness of .CA versus .COM for Canadian businesses and they kindly allowed us to republish it on Webnames.ca Blog. While it is no secret we are big proponents of .CA – Webnames.ca co-founder John Demco actually conceived of .CA in 1987 to identify Canadian…
