My grandparents still speak fondly of days when we did not carry tiny computers in our pockets and had to go to an encyclopedia for answers when we had questions or Yellow Pages when we were looking for a specific service. Cellphones, and particularly smartphones that...

I obsessively check my email multiple times a day. I am one of those people who cannot stand to have notification alerts lingering on my phone! Most of the emails I receive in my personal inbox are for companies I once signed up to receive messages from, but I rarely...

If you own or run a business or are otherwise invested in where a company ranks on Google's search engine result page, you may notice that it can feel impossible to move to that coveted first spot on the first page. When you consider that few people look past the...

Throughout the last decade, more and more things have moved online. When the coronavirus pandemic hit, even more things moved online, from school to shopping to even some doctor's appointments. Though there are still lots of things you do in person, a lot of the...

Back when I was in college, I had a string of bad luck with cellphones. I accidentally shut mine in the car door and effectively destroyed it as I was on my way to work early one morning, and my parents had been clear: I was to buy my next phone on my own dime. I...

While it may seem that everyone in the world is on social media, even more have email addresses, and even more of these people will check their emails more than their social media feeds. Email marketing is a great way to advertise your business, get out news about new...

My cousin, sister, and I were recently discussing what we refer to as "Newton's fourth law," which we say states that when you do the bare minimum for a test or paper, it will be much more difficult than you thought, but if you study for weeks in advance, the material...

In general, people engage in preventative measures every day. We study for tests so we do not fail, wear our seatbelts in cars, brush our teeth to prevent cavities, and so on. The good news about website hacks is that there are proven ways to help prevent them, the...

My twin sister and I bought a house together last summer, and it seems like we never run out of projects to do or ways to reimagine our space and make it work better or look better. Whether that 9s rearranging, changing up the pictures on the walls, painting, getting...

Before I knew how easy it could be to hack into a website or account, I liked to make my own passwords when I signed up for a new account somewhere. I knew there was no chance that I would EVER remember the string of numbers, letters, and characters in the strong...

I will be one of the first to admit that it matters to me what a website looks like. If it is slow, old, and clearly has not been updated in a while, I will more than likely not stay on the site for long. While it may seem harsh, many people do not consider your...

Wouldn't it be great if everything in life let us know when it was on its way out? I found out last week that my air conditioning unit needs to be replaced. It stopped working without a single warning! I also have a favorite pair of workout tennis shoes. I wear them...

There are few things that are more bothersome and detrimental to your site than a hack. While many people would like a better answer for this, there is often no rhyme or reason as to why your website is hacked. If you are part of a larger corporation, hackers could be...

My grandparents are notoriously suspicious of anything that asks them to put in their information online. Whether it is ordering something or making a payment, they always call me to see if they can trust the website before they submit anything. If you are skeptical...

Facebook has been in the news a lot over the last year or so, and for something so seemingly benign, it can be a controversial thing to bring up! However, did you know that Facebook is the largest social networking platform in the world? With nearly two billion active...

My family often jokes about how our phones are listening to us when we have been talking about something only to have an advertisement for exactly that thing pop up a day or so later. There is no telling how many times I have ended up buying something after seeing a...

Before I knew what I was looking for, I certainly never noticed whether a website address starts with “http://” or “https://.” In fact, most of the time, the part of the address you see when you are visiting a website does not even show the http:// or https:// so the...

Sometimes, when you buy something, there are issues later down the road that you have to worry about. When your website is designed with Your Web Pro LLC, you do not have to worry about your site being mobile responsive versus mobile friendly down the road. You will...

Few people click past the first page of search results, and many don't make it past the first few results on the first page. When it comes down to it, everyone wants to be at the top of Google’s search engine result page. However, making it to that spot via your...

I have always believed  that if I see something that seems to be too good to be true, that is probably the case. If I found something that should have been much more expensive than it was or was on sale for more than half off, my first thought was, “What is wrong with...

When I am scrolling on a website, few things make me more annoyed than having to scroll horizontally or adjust the zoom so I can see the whole page. While it rarely changes the actual function of a website, it makes it more difficult to understand and less appealing....

Most of us can tell the difference between when someone is being friendly versus if they are being responsive. For example, when I visit the school I attended and where my mom still teaches, I say hello to the principal, superintendent, and teachers when I see them in...

Sometimes, you don’t know the inner workings of things but know that they do work. For example, when I was little, I knew that the inside of the oven was hot and that the heat baked cookies and our dinners, but until I rose on tip-toe to see the cookies as they cooled...

The fact is that more people browse the internet on their phones than on their desktop purely out of convenience. Nine times out of ten when I am looking something up or browsing the Internet, I am not on my computer. Instead, I am sitting in the passenger seat of my...

More often than not, it seems that the first result on Google search results has some fine print underneath it; You might see that the first result has fine print beneath the name. “Paid Ad by Google,” it will probably say. You might be wondering how this company...

Last year, my computer saw a lot of me during quarantine. Between working from home, looking up information on COVID-19, watching Netflix after work, and online browsing and shopping, I was on a lot of websites every day! In fact, my friends and I joked that if there...

When I was in high school, my favorite teacher taught one of my least favorite subjects: science. His tests were notoriously difficult not because of the content, but because of how he formatted them in a way that got us to think outside the box and prepare us for...

We all know that not everything a salesperson says you need is really a necessity. For example, when my sister was buying her new car, it was all she could do not to buy windshield protection, new weather mats, a tricked out sound system, and a detailed package before...

While you could always get a website built and then not touch it again, most people would like edits and additions to their website over time! At Your Web Pro LLC, whether we are working on a redesign, a site that is based around an older one, or a completely new...

You now know what SEO means! Now what? Simply knowing what SEO means and what it does, it still does you no good to know that you need to use SEO on your website if you do not know how to do it or what it means to optimize your website for search engines. That would...

There are several different platforms you can use to build a website, but at Your Web Pro, we use WordPress. There are a whole host of reasons to build sites through WordPress: the software is user friendly, there are lots of options for building and customizing sites...

You may have heard a lot of talk about SEO and still have no idea what it stands for or what it does! SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and is one of the most important things you can do for your website and your business. When done well, SEO helps to increase...

People are generally scrolling slower through their email inboxes than they are their social media accounts. Statistics even say that you are more than five times more likely to receive a click from a promotion that arrives via email than on Facebook or Twitter! Email...

Many of us end up with our inboxes littered with annoying, unwanted emails from companies we either once upon a time gave our information to or who have somehow found our email addresses. Are you receiving spammy messages with clickbait in the subject line and wasting...

While the chaos of the last year is starting to slowly return to normal and businesses are largely reopened, online advertising and email marketing remains a vital way for you to keep up your sales while reaching your normal audience and also extending your reach...