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Google Maps is the new way for Businesses to respond to messages now that GMB is gone for good
As of July 2022 Google My Business doesn't exist anymore. That leaves our small business clients wondering how to communicate with their online customers who previously used GMB to reach out with questions, inquiries and general communication. Klages Web Design has the answer! The Google Maps app will be the best place for replying to customer messages on mobile. Turn on your notifications to ensure you're notified by email and Google Maps push notifications for new incoming [...]
Google Has Shut Down the Google My Business App
Yes, it's true, the Google My Business App is no longer available. We all knew it was coming but we hoped it couldn’t be true! However, when a user clicks to open the Google My Business app on their phone, they now get a message directing them to manage their Google Business Profile (GBP) from search results or Google Maps. For agencies that manage multiple Google Business Profiles like we do here at Klages Web Design, the [...]
6 Design Tips to Make Your Website More User-Friendly
Making your website more user-friendly allows you to fulfill your visitors’ needs. Not only that, but it also enables you to define the brand-consumer relationship and guide users to the actions you want them to take. A user-friendly website will attract more visitors, and visitors will stick around longer, thus increasing conversions. In this article, you will learn six crucial design tips to make your website more user-friendly. 1. Improve Your Website’s Layout A clunky, non-intuitive website [...]
Klages Web Design Announced as a 2021 Local Excellence Award Winner by UpCity!
For more than a decade, UpCity’s mission has been—and continues to be—to help businesses find B2B service providers they can trust. The UpCity Recommendability Rating was developed to determine a service provider’s credibility and recommendability, giving UpCity the confidence to recommend them to the more than 1.5 million businesses that visit their site. Each year, UpCity analyzes and scores more than 70,000 service providers based on their UpCity Recommendability Rating and acknowledges the top national and local [...]
Watch out for new Scams about Amazon
Be careful about a new scam where you get a call or text message claiming to be from Amazon security and claiming they are trying to stop a fraudulent sale. There is a recent article that has all of the details. Click Here to Read it. Also, I had a client with the misfortune to get scammed by a call purporting to be from Microsoft re: virus problems with her computer. Microsoft and Amazon will never call [...]
Why is building local citations important?
Debunking Citation Building Myths […]
Chrome can tell you if your passwords have been compromised
If your username and password were part of a hack, Password Checkup will let you know. […]
Con artists trick unsuspecting people into sending money to avoid sextortion
We have had several clients contact us about this particular scam. Many are very afraid, worried that they had a password or partial password they used… so the moral here is that everyone should set strong passwords. You can CALL KWD to talk about changing to stronger passwords, learn how, why, and what to do! […]
Google is shutting down Google+ for consumers following security lapse
Google is going to shut down the consumer version of Google+ over the next 10 months, the company writes in a blog post today. The decision follows the revelation of a previously undisclosed security flaw that exposed users’ profile data that was remedied in March 2018. […]
A secure web is here to stay
For the past several years, we’ve moved toward a more secure web by strongly advocating that sites adopt HTTPS encryption. And within the last year, Google has helped users understand that HTTP sites are not secure by gradually marking a larger subset of HTTP pages as “not secure”. Beginning in July 2018 with the release of Chrome 68, Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”. […]