COVID-19 has thrown Canadian small businesses for a loop. Some are really busy, some are less busy, and some are shut down. If you are one of the latter, are you in "stasis" or cocooning for a metamorphosis? Consider the options, start to plan, and work that plan! (Episode #1) You can share this video from Facebook LinkedIn, and…
Recognizing people's need for better coronavirus/COVID19 information, we have added links on our various local FOUNDLOCALLY.COM home pages, linking to the most appropriate federal, provincial, municipal websites, local health authorities, to ensure everyone has quick access to AUTHORITATIVE NEWS & UPDATES. We have provided localized information on each of our 30 FoundLocally.com websites. We've also included content links for activity…
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We recently conducted a review of directories and their impact of your web marketing & SEO. We noticed that several metrics that Google includes in its ranking factors are the number of back-links or “citations”. We took a look at several SEO/citation companies and their listings of “top directories”, and organized them in a spreadsheet. Where they included ranks (position…
No, SEO and directory, and search engine submission is NOT DEAD! And neither is Canada's beloved (but anachronistic) paper phone directory. In our review of top directory sites out there, as recommended by several top SEO and "Citation building" companies, we have cataloged about 200 different directories, search engines, and social media tools, etcetera that accept listings from Canadian businesses.…
Our New Year's newsletter sent to regular businesses: Let’s look back at 2018 & What EVERY BUSINESS should do in 2019 While it may seem to some that we are competing with local web design, web marketing, and SEO firms, we are working to make EVERYONE in the industry more effective and efficient. We are sharing our lessons learned on our…
Let’s look back: BIG changes over 2018 on FoundLocally.com and what EVERY BUSINESS should be doing for SEO and web marketing success in 2019 Let’s LOOK BACK at 2018 FoundLocally.com did a major redesign for a more “responsive” design, which provides the same interface for desktop, tablet, and smartphone users. We moved all the menus to the top of the…
We have made a couple of small changes to the FoundLocally sites: We continue to speed up the site finding small ways to make it faster We have updated the LOCAL megamenu for each community, particularly the Recreation and Business sections. We have updated the way we handle movie listings. Since theatres (small theatres as well as the chains) now…
TransCanada FoundLocally's president, Mark Ruthenberg, has been a judge of the Internet Advertising Competition annually since 2007. Enter your website, ad campaign, or project... see how you stack up against the world-wide competition!
Yes, we've updated all of the FoundLocally.com websites, a process which took over a month to programming, testing, debugging (it's MUCH trickier than anyone thinks, with all the "moving parts"), and optimization (page speed load times have been tripled over the past week, and we will keep tweaking!). By way of background, we have been responsive since 2015, and added…