The Importance of Mobile Optimization

SEO is only as good as the quality of a site’s on-page content, user experience (UX) design, and other key factors that are evaluated by Google. One factor that’s especially important is how a website functions on a mobile device. Google introduced mobile-first indexing at the end of March following a year and a half…

Hosting Data Center Locations

When choosing a hosting provider for your website it often comes down to making sure it can handle your site’s traffic and fit in your budget, but something else to consider is geographic location. Whether you’re running a regional content site or an international eCommerce business, getting hosting that is near your site’s target users/audience can help…

Schema.org Structured Data and Rich Snippets

What is “Schema.org Structured Data”? In basic terms it’s a way of categorizing and organizing information and the relationships between them. Schema.org is a collaborative project developed by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Yandex to build a shared vocabulary for building richer experiences for users. Web pages can be encoded with structured data to help search…

Your Favorite Hall Blog Posts of 2017

It’s almost hard to believe that another year has come and gone already. Fortunately, we marked the year with some fun and important accomplishments. For starters, 2017 was the fourth straight year that Hall maintained 100% employee Google Analytics certification. Back in May we sponsored and volunteered at the 4th annual WordCamp Maine and the…