You spent the time to plan and design your website. You monitor interactions, pay for ads, prioritize customer experience, but your website traffic is still down. Nothing is more frustrating! You may...

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What is Page Experience? Google’s Latest Algorithm Update

How to put Google’s latest algorithm update to work for your site Google is at it again with its algorithm updates. The Page Experience Update is the newest on the list, and while a Google update is...
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Spring Cleaning: 8 Ways to Refresh Your Website

It’s officially Spring! With spring comes an intuitive desire to start cleaning up, cleaning out, and starting fresh. Why limit that just to your house? Now is the perfect time to take a closer look...
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Why Are Core Web Vitals So Important?

What are the Core Web Vitals that Google is measuring? Core Web Vitals are a set of three main metrics that Google factors as important in your webpage’s overall user experience. These Core Web...
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10 Best CRM's [2021 Update]

What is a CRM? CRM stands for customer relationship management and is software that helps you manage and track your pipeline, contacts, and content. CRMs help you track the many ways you communicate...
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Google Algorithm Update: June 2021

If you have a website then SEO is always on your mind. Engagement on your site results in more leads, and more leads mean new clients. None of this would be possible without SEO, and Google is king....
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ADA Website Compliance

With the wide variety of technology that is available to us, websites have no excuse to have limited accessibility. During the process of web development, ADA compliance is an important factor that...
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5 Tips on Choosing the Right Keywords

Picking the right keywords and keyword phrases is one of the most important steps in successful search engine optimization (SEO). Increasing traffic to your site is a priority, but attracting the...
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Should I Blog?

Should I blog? Yes. Yes. Yes. Here is my list of reasons to start blogging for your business. You've heard all the talk about blogging and its benefits for over a decade, and now you're wondering if...
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The Five P's of Successful Web Project

Here at CommonPlaces, we follow The Five P's to be successful: People, Plan, Protect, Performance and Promote. We help all of our customers reach their digital goals, and each 'P' represents an...
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Our Top 10 Blog Posts of 2019

This has been an exciting year for all of us at CommonPlaces. 2019 has brought growth and change to our team, and we have enjoyed reflecting on all that we have learned and accomplished. This year,...
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The Importance of Website Planning

One of the most important stages and oftentimes consuming tasks of building a website is the Planning Phase. If you neglect to plan a project thoroughly, the odds of an unhappy finished project are...
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Our 10 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2018

This is the last blog post of 2018. Over the past 12 months we have written about digital marketing trends, SEO, website vulnerabilities and tips for increasing website security. What are the most...