Digital Marketing & Concrete5 Tips Blog
Advice, tutorials, news, training and expert advice on the Concrete5 content management system, ecommerce, website design, online marketing and social media optimization from Pixo Web Design & Strategy. To watch training videos visit our Concrete5 videos page. To learn more about our Concrete5 services or to get your own Concrete5 website please feel free to contact us.
Apr
21
Getting Social with Disney
For five years Disney has put on the invite only Disney Social Moms event at one of its park. We were invited the previous two years but were not able to attend because of scheduling conflicts. This year we made it a point to attend and it did not disappoint.
We've worked with Disney on a couple …
Categories: Social Media
Mar
29
How to Use Influencers in Your Online Marketing Strategy
One of Pixo's websites is milehighmamas.com. It is the top mom community website in Colorado where the top mommy bloggers share ideas with other moms and have a lot of fun together. One of the interesting things we have found and research has proven over the years is how much trust moms put into …
Categories: Social Media
Mar
15
Concrete5 5.6.3 Released
A new version of Concrete5 is now available. Version 5.6.3 contains the following new features and improvements. This is a relatively minor release but one that most website owners should upgrade to for the added security benefits.Feature Updates
Languages with greater than 90% completion are now…
Categories: Concrete5 CMS
Mar
05
The 7 Most Important Things to Consider for Your Website Design
Everyone wants to get an edge when it comes to having a great website. There isn't a one size fits all formula when it comes to creating a great website design that increases your sales but there are 7 things that every good Concrete5 theme should have. The following is a great checklist to help y…
Categories: Website Design
Feb
19
New Concrete5 Version Coming Soon!
A release candidate for the next major version of concrete5 is now available! That means a stable version of the new Concrete5 should be available in the next two weeks. In addition to better password security, this release fixes many bugs and includes language files, meaning you no longer need to …
Categories: Concrete5 CMS
Feb
13
Learn Why Social Media Will Become Your Biggest Ranking Factor in the Future
We've been saying for nearly two years now that if you want your website to rank well in the future on Google you have to start doing social media optimization now. We have seen where Google has been heading for a while now and telling our clients that social media is going to become more and more …
Categories: SEO
Feb
11
Click Through Rates By Position in Organic Search Engine Results
Have you ever wondered how many more clicks someone that ranks position #1 on page #1 on Google? Here are some interesting facts:
Position #1 on average gets 33.4% of all traffic from a Google search
Position #2 gets 17.5%
Position #3 gets 12% of the clicks.
The following graph show clicks by p…
Categories: Search Engine Optimization
Feb
06
How to Choose the Best Keywords for Local SEO
One of the things we do early on with a new search engine optimization (SEO) client is help them develop a list of keywords that they would want to optimize for their website. Usually we keep the list to around 15-20 keywords to start with. The list of SEO keywords are the words/phrases that we wa…
Categories: SEO
Jan
08
Helping a Client in a Pinch; Ecommerce Website in Just Two Days
We were recently contacted by a company in Boulder, Colorado who was in a real pinch. His current website vendor, who was one of those "build your own website services," wasn't working (literally) and he was in great need of getting a website that would work for his needs going forward. The catch …
Categories: ecommerce
Jan
01
Pixo Acquires Popular MileHighMamas.com Mommy Blogger Website
For five years, in partnership with The Denver Post, Pixo Web Design & Strategy has managed the editorial and marketing efforts of Denver’s Mile High Mamas mom website. The website features Denver’s leading mommy bloggers, recipes, product reviews, contests, newsletters and family friendly events. …
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