Posts by Paul Hickey
How To Fetch As Bing Bot: Data Driven Daily Tip 305
WATCH LISTEN READ While it’s true (the proof is in the data) that Bing only makes up about five or less percent of all organic web searches (ways that your web users find your website via SEO / organic search), it is still important to rank highly on Bing, and have solid search engine visibility…
Read MoreHow To Enable Demographics and Interest Reports – Data Driven Daily Tip 304
WATCH LISTEN READ Attention Marketers and Small Business Owners – did you know you may be missing out on learning valuable information about your web users by not having your Demographics and Interest Reports Enabled? By just toggling one switch in Google Analytics that takes about three seconds, you can start to aggregate data on…
Read MoreWhat To Do When You See Your Business On Google But It's Not Your Business: Data Driven Daily Tip 303
WATCH LISTEN READ Have you ever Google’d your business, then wondered why you’re looking at search results on the right hand side of the page that have nothing to do with your business at all? Like if your address is being used for someone else’s business, or if it is your business, with incorrect information?…
Read MoreHow to Import Your Google Analytics Conversions into Google Ads: Data Driven Daily Tip 302
WATCH LISTEN READ Digital Marketers, Small Business Owners and Web Developers, you may all be wondering the same thing (and based on the amount of questions, comments and feedback I get regarding Google Analytics and Google Ads, there’s a good chance you probably are) … Why aren’t my conversions showing in Google Ads? Specifically, they…
Read MoreHouse Hunters International Full Episode: The Hickeys Move To Valencia, Spain
WATCH READ In the daily grind of our work lives, it’s important to have some reflections about how things have gone for us over the past year. I do this exercise often, to calibrate a few different things. Number 1, to remind myself about “macro-patience and micro-speed” – two seemingly conflicting concepts, but when married…
Read MoreData Driven Daily Tip 301: How To Find Your Sitemap In Yoast SEO
WATCH LISTEN READ Have you recently tried to find your sitemap in your WordPress Website using Yoast SEO, but can’t find it anywhere? Recent plug-in updates to Yoast have changed where this is located and it’s not easy to find anymore. This video shows you how to find it. The importance of it is so…
Read MoreHow To Free Up More Google Analytics Accounts When You Reach Your 100 Limit – Data Driven Daily Tip 300
WATCH LISTEN READ Data Driven Daily Tip 300 – Google Analytics Accounts are free with GSuite and with regular Gmail accounts. To activate yours, go to analytics.google.com and log in with your credentials. With your email account, you’ll get access to 100 different Google Analytics Accounts. But if you’re like me, those fill up fast.…
Read MoreGoogle Search Console Domain Properties and How to Use Them – Data Driven Daily Tip 299
WATCH LISTEN READ At Data Driven Design, we love change. It’s our sixth differentiator. And it’s a good thing we do, because Google is changing Google Search Console (formerly known as Google Webmaster Tools) all of the time. It used to be that you had to verify your domains for each domain prefix, www., http://,…
Read MoreHow To add reCAPTCHA in WordPress via Gravity Forms – Data Driven Daily Tip 298
WATCH LISTEN READ I don’t get hit with a lot of spam on my WordPress forms, to be honest, but some websites do, big time. And believe me, I know first hand that small business owners have no time to deal with spam from their new WordPress websites. For a service provider like Data Driven…
Read MoreHow To Find Your Website's Old IP Address – Data Driven Daily Tip 297
WATCH LISTEN READ A common use case for Web Designers and Developers to need to figure out a client’s old IP address after maybe not planning for it, would be something like trying to bring back a clients old website to take a look at the content after pointing the A Record to the new…
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