seo Archives - Webnames Blog Domains, Hosting, SSL and Ideas for businesses to succeed online Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:24:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Optimizing Core Web Vitals for Canadian Websites https://blog.webnames.ca/optimizing-core-web-vitals-for-canadian-websites/ Mon, 21 Jul 2025 21:19:30 +0000 https://blog.webnames.ca/?p=21458

Website 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…

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]]> A Beginner Website Owner’s Guide To Using Redirects https://blog.webnames.ca/a-beginner-website-owners-guide-to-using-redirects/ Thu, 09 Mar 2023 18:49:23 +0000 https://blog.webnames.ca/?p=20337

Let’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…

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]]> High Traffic, Low Conversion Rate? Here Are 8 Reasons Why Your Audience Isn’t Converting https://blog.webnames.ca/high-traffic-low-conversion-rate-here-are-8-reasons-why-your-audience-isnt-converting/ Fri, 29 Jul 2022 17:25:51 +0000 https://blog.webnames.ca/?p=20172 Looking at website traffic analytics on ecommerce website

In 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.

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]]> Dropped Domains: The SEO Impact They Can Have And Where To Find Them https://blog.webnames.ca/dropped-domains-the-seo-impact-they-can-have-and-where-to-find-them/ Thu, 13 May 2021 18:23:00 +0000 https://blog.webnames.ca/?p=19734

Thousands 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…

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]]> How To Increase Organic Traffic To A Small Business Website https://blog.webnames.ca/how-to-increase-organic-traffic-to-a-small-business-website/ Mon, 21 Dec 2020 21:14:30 +0000 https://blog.webnames.ca/?p=19460 Every 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…

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]]> The Best SEO Plugins for WordPress to Get Higher Rankings https://blog.webnames.ca/best-seo-plugins-wordpress/ Wed, 05 Oct 2016 19:14:58 +0000 https://blog.webnames.ca/?p=15891 In 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…

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]]> How to move your website to a new domain, the right way https://blog.webnames.ca/move-your-website-to-a-new-domain/ Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:47:37 +0000 http://blog.webnames.ca/?p=14418 How 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…

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]]> The New Facebook Graph Search https://blog.webnames.ca/the-new-facebook-graph-search/ Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:37:03 +0000 http://blog.webnames.ca/2013/02/the-new-facebook-graph-search/ After 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…

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]]> Webnames.ca in the news: A new internet era: How gTLDs like .blog and .sex will work https://blog.webnames.ca/webnamesca-in-the-news-a-new-i/ Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:00:28 +0000 http://blog.webnames.ca/2013/01/webnamesca-in-the-news-a-new-i/ Webnames.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…

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]]> New FastTrack Pricing Options! https://blog.webnames.ca/webnames-is-thrilled-to-announ/ Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:40:54 +0000 http://blog.webnames.ca/2012/10/webnames-is-thrilled-to-announ/ Webnames.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…

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]]> How to Prepare for a Website Re-build or Re-Design https://blog.webnames.ca/how-to-prepare-for-a-website-r/ Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:22:57 +0000 http://blog.webnames.ca/2011/04/how-to-prepare-for-a-website-r/ You’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…

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]]> Some great new features now available for your .tel https://blog.webnames.ca/some-great-new-features-now-av/ Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:06:38 +0000 http://blog.webnames.ca/2011/03/some-great-new-features-now-av/ The 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…

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]]> SEO Professionals Better Sharpen Their Game, Search Just Got Social https://blog.webnames.ca/seo-professionals-better-sharp/ Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:34:03 +0000 http://blog.webnames.ca/2010/12/seo-professionals-better-sharp/ The 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…

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]]> SEO – some easy wins you can implement right now. https://blog.webnames.ca/seo-some-easy-wins-you-can-i/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:07:01 +0000 http://blog.webnames.ca/2010/11/seo---some-easy-wins-you-can-i/ We 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.…

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]]> To Dot-CA or not to Dot-CA? Which Extension Has More SEO Clout for Canadian Businesses? https://blog.webnames.ca/to-dot-ca-or-not-to-dot-ca-seo-clout/ Mon, 10 May 2010 21:33:51 +0000 http://blog.webnames.ca/2010/05/to-dot-ca-or-not-to-dot-ca-whi/ We 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…

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]]> 20 Days to Search Term Dominance – Booyah! https://blog.webnames.ca/20-days-to-search-term-dominan/ Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:05:44 +0000 http://blog.webnames.ca/2010/03/20-days-to-search-term-dominan/ On March 5th, Cybele published her secrets to high page rank for her dot tel. Given the incredible rank she achieved with Cybele.tel, I asked her to wave her magic wand at Webnames.tel as it was sow’s ear rather than a silk purse.  On March 11th, she updated the information and enhanced the listings. Twenty…

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]]> How to Develop High Page Rank on Google for your .TEL https://blog.webnames.ca/develop-high-pagerank-for-your-tel/ Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:26:04 +0000 http://blog.webnames.ca/2010/03/develop-high-pagerank-for-your-tel/ With any new technology, people need proof of concept and to see real life examples working. I decided a few months ago to track what I was doing with my own .TEL updates for http://cybele.tel and see what effect they would have on how my rank in Google. My .TEL is now in 5th (see screenshot below)…

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]]> 10 Simple Tips for Optimizing your Blog on Search Engines https://blog.webnames.ca/10-simple-tips-for-optimizing/ Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:27:37 +0000 http://blog.webnames.ca/2010/02/10-simple-tips-for-optimizing/ I don’t know of a single blogger who doesn’t want to improve their search engine optimization and page rank. The truth is that there is always something you can do!  Here are 10 tips for boosting SEO – and all of them are straight forward things you can implement yourself. Start with writing great content that is…

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]]> Great Domain Prices & Improve your Search Engine Ranking! https://blog.webnames.ca/great-domain-prices-improve-yo-1/ Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:24:06 +0000 http://blog.webnames.ca/2009/07/great-domain-prices-improve-yo-1/ Over the summer Webnames.ca is offering exceptional value on five and ten year domain name registrations to all regular priced accounts. Until August 31, 2009, get new .ca, .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info or .cn domain names for only $19.99 per year for 5 year registrations and $12.99 per year for 10 year registrations .* SEO…

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]]> Could a Longer Domain Term Help your SEO? https://blog.webnames.ca/longer-domain-terms-boost-sear/ Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:36:44 +0000 http://blog.webnames.ca/2007/09/longer-domain-terms-boost-sear/ Last updated September 2009 It certainly won’t land you on the first page of Google if your website has poor content and is not well optimized for search engines, but registering and/or renewing your domain name for a longer term might help your SEO. How? Credible websites have certain things in common, for example their domain…

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