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How Does Blogging Help Your Business?

How Does Blogging Help Your Business?

I am a webmaster, and blogging has proven to be very beneficial for my small business clients. My clients often ask how to improve their search engine rankings and drive more traffic to their website. Ultimately, they are looking for more leads and sales from their...

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Website Ownership Tip #8: Maintenance

Website Ownership Tip #8: Maintenance

If you own a website for your business, here’s a tip. You likely got it designed and developed, or you’re about to, but then what? What happens after the website is complete and it’s ready to go live? That’s where Hosting and Maintenance comes in.   What is...

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Have You Confirmed Your 2022 Holiday Hours?

Have You Confirmed Your 2022 Holiday Hours?

Where Are the Holiday Hours? On the Google Search and Map results, these are the orange or green "Holiday hours" on the local listings. Below is an example. The green "Holiday hours" denotes the listing owner specifically confirmed their hours for that day. The orange...

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Have You Upgraded to Google Analytics 4?

Have You Upgraded to Google Analytics 4?

What is Google Analytics? Google Analytics is one of the most popular website tracking tools on the Internet. This free software is available at analytics.google.com. Google Analytics gives you insights into your website's visitors. Have you ever asked any of these...

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Is It Time for a Website Refresh?

Is It Time for a Website Refresh?

​Is your website feeling a bit dated? Have you kept up with its content but haven’t touched the design in years? If so, you might be interested in a “Website Refresh”! Let’s bring your 5-10 year old design up to 2022 standards. What does a Website Refresh cost? Most...

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Website Ownership Tip #4: Hosting Server

Website Ownership Tip #4: Hosting Server

Greetings! For today’s tip, I want you to think about the #1 most important part of your website’s performance, and that’s your hosting server. This is the foundation / the infrastructure of your website. If you care about how fast your website loads, this trumps any...

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Website Ownership Tip #2: SSL Security

Website Ownership Tip #2: SSL Security

So if you own a website, or you’re a builder of websites, here’s today’s tip. Have you ever tried to visit a website but got a popup that said the website, or the form, was NOT SECURE? Did that fill you with confidence in the company that runs the website? Nope....

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Website Ownership Tip #1: Focus on Solutions

Website Ownership Tip #1: Focus on Solutions

"Sell Benefits, Not Facts" If you are in the advertising and marketing field, or you own a website, here’s today’s tip. When people visit your website, here’s the honest truth: they don’t care so much about who you are as much as they care about their own problems....

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Can I See How My Web Page Used to Look?

Can I See How My Web Page Used to Look?

Can I see how my website looked in the past? Yes, you can! With a free resource called The Internet Archive, you can see how any website looked at various points in time. Why would you need to pull up an old version of a web page? Sometimes it's more out of necessity...

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Does Your Website Need Translation?

Does Your Website Need Translation?

Why translate a website? As a website owner, your website is intended to be read by your target audience. What good does your website accomplish if it can't be read by your customers? What language does your target audience speak? English? What if your customers speak...

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7 Free Tips to Fight Spam

7 Free Tips to Fight Spam

Are you noticing more spam lately? Hackers and spammers love to exploit a stressful situation (e.g. pandemic). Follow these 7 tips to stay vigilant against spam and phishing!   1. Ignore All IRS Stimulus Emails I've personally seen plenty of "IRS" emails lately...

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Do You Have a Coronavirus Statement?

Do You Have a Coronavirus Statement?

What are other businesses posting regarding COVID-19? Here are some ideas: How are you responding to the COVID-19 pandemic? What are your cleanliness standards? Are your hours of operation changing? Are you temporarily closing? Do you have a remote/virtual method of...

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Do You Need Some 4K Drone Footage?

Do You Need Some 4K Drone Footage?

Drones are the hottest new toys. Praised by consumers and professionals alike, drones have rose exponentially in popularity the past few years. Social media is flooded with phenomenal photography and videos from that coveted bird's (drone's) eye view. There is an...

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Pioneer Media is #2 on Google!

Pioneer Media is #2 on Google!

#2 on Google local search results and Page 1 on organic results for “Web Designer in Knoxville” on desktop and mobile! Search Engine Optimization (SEO) really does work! Click on the screenshots below for proof (as of Tuesday, September 8, 2015).   [gallery...

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Web Design Pro is now Pioneer Media

Web Design Pro is now Pioneer Media

We are now Pioneer Media. We are still the same Knoxville web design company but with a new name: Pioneer Media. Since the start of our company in 2006, we have grown and matured as a modern, professional web design company. Our websites use modern web standards and a...

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Spam Contact Form Submissions

Spam Contact Form Submissions

    Is your website getting SPAM? Learn about these strange contact form submissions: These are not written by real people Well, they were at one time. But a real human being did not visit your website and manually fill out the contact form. These are sent to...

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Make 2014 a Great Year!

Make 2014 a Great Year!

Ready for 2014? 2014 is here, and that means a new start for your business. That means wiping your slate almost clean of last year's problems. That also means making sure the problems you had in 2013 aren't repeated this year. Let's all stick to those new business...

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