Simplicitydms

It's been a minute guys, and I'm coming up for air before the holidays! Wanted to say HELLO! I'm Al, Allie, Allison, Mommy, your friendly reliable local web designer and marketing strategist. I'm a Mama of 3 littles, love learning new techy skills, am obsessed with good sushi, and spending time on the beach with my family. I'm also obsessed with making my clients websites WORK for their businesses. I love brainstorming marketing ideas and teaching my clients things that they didn't know about how websites and SEO work. I love helping them be accountable to their businesses and themselves. I've run into a couple new clients lately that were burned by past designers, and I'm here to be the reliability that you never knew you needed. Got a tricky website question or have some ideas spinning around in your mind about your own marketing? I'm a Mom, so obviously I'm pretty much always up for a *huge* cup of coffee and a good thorough website chat 👩‍💻 ☕✨

Negative reviews are just a part of business, and Google wants to know that you handle them like a professional when it comes to your business. Don't just ignore them! Respond - Let the client know you're happy to try to work with them, or you're sorry it didn't work out - Whatever the case is. HOWEVER - People leaving reviews on your business should be ACTUAL CLIENTS. If someone leaves you a review who has never even been a client, make sure to report it! You never know, Google might just agree with you!

Wordpress may be great in some ways, but these vulnerabilities continue to sway us away from building sites there. We'd rather spend our time enhancing your website's content and improve your conversions, not spend all of our time just keeping it functioning!

TablePress WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Affects 700,000+ Sites WordPress plugin vulnerability affecting up to 700,000 websites could lead to stored XSS attacks

Making your website effective is like going to the gym. Be consistent, stay the course, adjust/monitor/control. Google knows when you're putting in the work, and when you're doing the right thing. 💅✨🖤

Why do we build all of our sites on Duda? We wanted a platform that consistently outperformed the rest. That made things simple for users. That didn't require constant updates, and didn't leave our business owners concerned about vulnerabilities. We always love seeing these kinds of updates that show us just how much the Duda team is working to keep us ahead of the game, always. - Duda continues to Rank #1 against competitors when it comes to Core Web Vitals 🔥🔥🔥

2025 Core Web Vitals Challenge: WordPress Versus Everyone The latest Core Web Vitals CMS rankings show unexpected results, except in the number-one and last-ranked platforms.

We love being able to share good news with our clients! These are just a few of the insights we were able to offer our clients this month - Building an effective website is a marathon, not a sprint ✨👩‍💻🖤

Hoping to start a blog, but not sure what to write? You've come to the right place! We love brainstorming ideas for creative and actually helpful blog posts with our clients, and help them stay on track with their scheduling. Our blog services include optimizing for SEO, researching highly searched topics, scheduling & writing. We love a little help from AI to keep costs low for you, but also know how important it is to speak to your audience, not just the Google Gods. If you have writer's block but know a blog could enhance your business image & visibility, we are always here to chat!

Have you ever had someone share a website with you on social media but the image showed up looking funny? There's a specific way to set this up - This image is called an Open Graph image, and the proper size should be 1200 by 630 pixels. Usually this gets messed up for people because they just upload their square shaped logo and by default the system blows it out of proportion to try to fit the space.

You can hop right into canva (for free) and upload your logo to make an image that is the proper size!

Not sure what yours looks like currently? Head on over to https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ - Here you can type in the URL you are wondering about and see how it pops up, complete with meta information.

These are easy checks to make sure that your branding is representing your business properly and things are showing up the way you think when you share them! ✨💅👩‍💻

Ahhhh Sweet Sweet Summertime 🌻 🌊

This is our friendly and loving reminder that your website doesn't really care that it's summer... The internet still likes seeing that your website and online content is all up to date.. Even if you've checked out and headed to the beach!

Did you know our website maintenance updates everything you need to on your behalf? We are just a text or a quick email away so you can update pricing, add photos, or publish that blog post right from your beach chair. We respond to reviews, track your analytics, and keep a finger on the pulse of your business so you can rest, recharge, and worry about more important things!

These messages literally. Make. Our. Day. 👏🏻👏🏼👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿

While your website should be pretty(!) Your website should also be working for you! Which now has us begging the question... If a website is pretty and no one sees it, is it actually pretty? 😄🙃💅🏽👩🏼‍💻👩🏼‍💻👩🏼‍💻

Well shucks, what a nice way to start a Friday 🖤 Our clients and their success are everything to us! 🖤

Spending a little time this morning testing our knowledge! 📚

Web design has come quite a long way since the days of code-only sites. There are many reasons we work with Duda for all of our websites, and one of them is the constant improvement and desire by the company to streamline processes and build better websites while working with agencies. Their new Editor dramatically improves our efficiency for building websites and making changes, which in turn allows us to keep our pricing for small businesses affordable 💵

Other things we love? Their willingness to listen and make improvements based on agency feedback. They are also always available to fix issues, troubleshoot challenges, and answer questions, which saves us and our customers hours of pouring through support articles. Real live customer support allows us to help you faster, keeping costs & stress low 🖤

Questions on how Duda compares with other website builders like Wordpress, Wix, and Squarespace? Just ask! 👩‍💻✨