News from online for January 2021

It’s a new year and here are 5 online related news items that will affect how you show up online this year.

Will Google block your website in 2021?

Come March 2021, your website may disappear from search engines. Poof. Gone.

Unless you’re ready for mobile-first indexing. What that is and how you can check your site.

7 news items from the world of online

7 news items that you may have missed, but that all affect how you show up online and are found by potential customers. Plus online security issues.

Website therapy and a roadmap

23 Zoom research calls with small business owners and entrepreneurs in the US, Canada, Australia and Europe: Pain points and successes when it comes to their websites and what they really would like.

WordPress turns 17

It started as a humble blogging tool.

Then it grew up. Turned out it could run full websites. For businesses. Nonprofits. Ecommerce. That don’t may not even have a blog.

Who is your website for?

Your website isn’t for the whole world. It would totally crash if they all came.

But we do want the right people to come. And take action once there.

How to not have to rebuild your computer from scratch

I was working on my computer when an app glitched. If it happens once, chalk it up to gremlins.

Multiple times, the computer likely needs to be erased and everything reinstalled. Ouch!

When the wheels come off the bus

The part of business (and life) nobody seems to like is making a plan for handling the unforeseen. When Crisis hits. But that won’t stop a Crisis from hitting and then we still have to deal with it.

Your website — the beginning of a beautiful friendship

Launching a new website is exciting!

It’s also a beginning. We need the website to do well for a long time. But that won’t happen automagically.