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A little bit of everything is happening in the world of tech, from CMS changes to new features and updates. Check out the latest ongoings that have been happening in the marketing world!

Everyone who reads the hasOptimization blog knows that I make no apologies when it comes to how hard I drag web hoster GoDaddy for their web hosting offerings, whether it comes to their price gouging for SSL certificates, charging for services that don’t actually do anything, their poor security, or any variety of shady business practices they have. However, I’ve never been public on the blog about my dislike of Bluehost as a registrar and a web hoster. Based on my experiences with Bluehost, I’d never recommend them to anyone.

From preparations for holiday shopping season (no, we can’t believe it’s just around the corner either) to new insights into Google’s crawl budget, we’ve got you covered with a roundup of some important digital marketing news over the last month.

Bloat can happen to anyone and strike at any time – often times when we are most unaware! But when you get the dreaded email from your hosting company about how you’re about to hit your hosting limit, you’re probably asking how or why this is happening to your WordPress site. 

Sometimes we build fancy features or hundred-product ecommerce setups, and those sites can be fantastically interesting and challenging to bring to life. Other days, though, we do something that’s simple, fast, and budget-friendly, especially when we’re working with solopreneurs or nonprofits. Today’s launch announcement is an unusual one for us, albeit not our first political candidate: A fellow Canterburian, Ellen Scarponi, is running for NH State Representative for Canterbury and Loudon, and wanted a basic website to function as a larger digital brochure for her campaign. We also (with the always appreciated design experience of Bradstreet Englert Creative) designed handouts…

We’re very pleased to welcome our new Social Media Director, Katherine Sookma. Katherine hails from the far distant land of Texas, but as so many folks have learned in the last couple years (and we already knew), distance is actually very little barrier to effective work in many fields. We’re lucky here in that our work is very adaptable to the remote-work paradigm, but one odd benefit of the proliferation of remote work in the last couple of years has been that when we interview potential team members, the question of “are you comfortable working remotely?” is far less of…

hasOptimization designs and builds quite a few websites, both for new companies and for established ones needing a refresh. However, it’s not every day that we get to say not only “New Website” and “New Company”, but also “These folks are hiring!” Today’s that day. Please welcome Integrity Veterinary Center to the world–specifically, to western Massachusetts.

It’s time for our monthly marketing news roundup, where we highlight some recent news in the world of digital marketing, social media marketing, SEO, and more! As we entered Q3, lots of apps made updates to their shopping and advertising features. Take a look at some of the highlights:

In our monthly marketing news roundup, we highlight some recent news in the world of digital marketing, social media marketing, SEO, and more! Find out how updates in social media algorithms may affect your digital marketing strategies, prepare your small business for changes and updates, or just keep up to date on some of the things that are happening in this ever-changing field.

DNS, short for domain name system, can be really hard to wrap your brain around, but is an integral part of the way websites work. If you’ve ever been confused about DNS, DNS records, or DNS management, I hope to clear up any confusion you may have about how it works. Let’s break down what DNS is, and how it serves a website.