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Welcome to the Learning Center at Jenn Graddy Digital, your go-to resource for empowering your digital journey. Here, we dive deep into the ever-evolving world of online marketing, offering a treasure trove of insights, tips, and strategies designed to elevate your digital presence. Whether you’re a small business owner, a budding entrepreneur, or simply passionate about harnessing the power of the internet, our carefully curated blog posts are crafted to inform, inspire, and ignite your digital endeavors. Explore, learn, and transform your digital strategies with us as we navigate the dynamic digital landscape together.
New Website Development Project Launches
Edison Insurance Services began working with us in May on a website development project. Their old website was very dated, the customer experience was non-existent, the site was slow and had no Search Engine Optimization. Our team created the website with several...
5 Reasons You Need An SEO Consultant
5 Reasons You Need An SEO Consultant There are many reasons your website needs a search engine optimization (SEO) consultant to help your website achieve more. Many people will try and go it alone in the search engine optimization process and in the majority of cases...
Using Stencil For Graphics
Canva used to be my 'go to' online graphics app.....until I discovered Stencil. Stencil is one of the best online graphic design tools out there. It is so easy to use and they have a free version as well as a paid version. Stencil is the perfect option for bloggers...
2017: Time to Secure you Site with SSL
Why do I need an SSL certificate? SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer and it is a standard protocol that enables private and confidential sessions between two applications exchanging data over a TCP/IP connection. In other words, it allows information to be exchanged...
How Can I Start a Blog?
This is the first in a series of How to Blog. I have several different blogs that I write, in addition to this one. Orlando Canine Connections is focused on dogs, Orlando Connections focuses on Orlando restaurants, theme parks, etc. and JenniferGraddy.com focuses on...
Snowed Out Atlanta: How Social Media is Changing How We Communicate
Snowed Out Atlanta Facebook page is helping people to communicate while they are stranded. If you've been on social media or watched the news or read a daily publication in the last 24 hours, you know that Atlanta is at a standstill. They only received 2.3...
Why Google My Business is Important to Your Business
Why Google My Business is important to your business. Remember when you developed your website? All that time and effort and money that went into making it the most beautiful, useful website in your industry You were positive that you would undoubtedly get millions...
What is a Landing Page
Landing Page What is a landing page and what is its purpose? A landing page is a special type of website page created to force the user to focus their attention on two options -- a specific call to action such as sign-up or leave the page. By forcing the user to be...
How to Upload to Google
What Should I Blog About
When I develop a website for a business client, I always suggest they setup a blog on their site. Blogging keeps your site fresh and helps tremendously with your SEO efforts. However, I typically get a lukewarm response, at best, because most business owners don't...
Top 10 WordPress Plugins 2016
WordPress Plugins for 2016 WordPress is powerful Content Management System (CMS), but the real power is in the plugins. There are literally tens of thousands of WordPress plugins to allow you to add just about any functionality you can think of to your website. Here...
Catch The Designers Website
SEO Tips to Optimize Your Blog
SEO Tips to Optimize Your Blog Most business owners know that blogging is essential to SEO, but do you know that the way you write and post your blogs will affect your SEO ranking? Here are 10 tips that you can follow to optimize your blog for SEO 1. Have a clear and...
Favorite Free Stock Image Sites
When we are posting a blog post or social post, we want to ensure we are not using copyrighted photography because that could be costly to us as well as our clients. Did you know there are a lot a FREE stock photography sites that allow you to use the photos for both...
Gmail will stop working on Chrome 53 and older starting 02/08
Google has announced that Gmail will stop working on Chrome 53 and older starting February 8 so now is the time to upgrade to the latest version. You can check what version of Chrome you are running by clicking on Settings->About in your Chrome browser. Google says...
How Do I Update WordPress?
WordPress released version 4.6 "Pepper" this week leaving a lot of people asking the question, how do I update WordPress? WordPress from time to time will upgrade their software to add features & functionality or to patch a security issues so it is very important...
Why Do I Need a New Website?
Why do I need a new website? You already have a perfectly good website so why do you need a new one? You could ask this questions about a lot of products such as a car, a house, new clothes, a new smart phone, etc. Let's take a look at a few reasons why you should...