Large Website Migration – What You Need to Know

Category: Web Development
Posted by Odd Dog Media | April 29, 2020

When you’re considering the possibility of building a new website, migration is something you should have top of mind. Different systems hold content differently and migrating it to a new platform might not be as easy as waving a wand. A few questions you should ask: • Do you even have enough content to worry…

From 0 to 30+ Reviews in Just 6 Weeks

Category: Blog, Web Design, Local SEO, SEO, Web Development
Posted by Adam Broetje | December 6, 2017

If you’re a business owner, you know how hard it can be to get your HAPPY customers to leave reviews for you. Happy is capitalized because we all know what people do if they have an experience they’re not pleased with. Here we’ll break down the numbers to identify Seattle Towing’s conversion rate with our…

Stop Spam Bots from Ruining your Analytics Referral Data

Category: Advice, Local SEO, SEO, Web Development, Guides, Marketing, Analytics
Posted by Danielle | July 15, 2015

As a Seattle Website Design agency, we use WordPress and Google Analytics. Right to the point: Comprehensive list of all active spam bots to block. What’s going on and what to do: As a digital marketer data is everything. Our primary goal is to create measurable impacts on clients. Whether that is an increase in…

5 Reasons to Have a WordPress Website

Category: Advice, Web Design, Local SEO, SEO, Web Development, Marketing
Posted by Danielle | May 18, 2015 | Tags: Local SEO, Wordpress, advice, website

See this post that Adam wrote back in 2013 as to why we, at Odd Dog, use WordPress exclusively for our clients. #1 – Outstanding Support – WordPress started as a blogging platform, and now claims 23.9% of the internet’s websites and growing fast! That’s pretty huge. And with that many sites being run on…

Google Updates Local Search Results Algorithm

Category: Local SEO, SEO, Web Development, Blog
Posted by | July 25, 2014 | Tags: Google, Search Engine Optimization, Local SEO, Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Land

The need for a deep understanding of analytics and overall SEO strategy is more necessary than ever. Google recently announced updates to its local search algorithm through Barry Schwartz, news editor at Search Engine Land. Some are referring to this update as the, “Pigeon update.” Google stated that these changes are bringing local SEO more, “in…

Speed Up Your Site!

Category: Advice, Blog, Local SEO, SEO, Web Development
Posted by Adam Broetje | August 14, 2013 | Tags: business, WP, Caching Plugin, Hosting Service, Page Speed Insights, PNG, Reduce Large Images, WPE

Listen Up! Stereotypically local business websites run slowly. This negatively affects not only the user experience on your website but it can also negatively impact your search rankings. There’s a lot of information out there about how to “minify” your website code or cut down on the number of redirects your have on your site….

Google Analytics Offline Conversion Tracking jQuery Script

Category: Web Development, Analytics
Posted by | July 19, 2013 | Tags: ROI, business, GA, Google Analytics, marketing, URL, API, ID, UA, Universal Analytics

Ask any web marketer what their biggest challenge is, and I would wager that the most common thing you would hear is “tracking ROI”. Unless you’re in ecommerce, where the entire customer experience happens online and can be tracked with relative ease from start to finish, most customer lifecycles have offline components to them –…

New website launched for a Seattle Photography Studio

Category: Web Design, SEO, Web Development, Blog
Posted by Adam Broetje | April 4, 2013 | Tags: business, marketing, Seattle Photography Studio

We are in the process of helping a local Seattle photography studio refresh some of their marketing and have just launched their most recent website at www.rowlandphoto.com. A few key things we included in the website: A focus on seattle senior portraits as that’s a popular item this time of year. A responsive and mobile…