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Advice, tutorials, news, training and expert advice on the Concrete5 content management system, ecommerce, website design, online marketing and social media optimization from Pixo Web Design & Strategy. To watch training videos visit our Concrete5 videos page. To learn more about our Concrete5 services or to get your own Concrete5 website please feel free to contact us.
Nov
17
Mickey Mouse Says the Force is Strong with Our Social Media
For four years straight, Pixo has been fortunate enough to be invited to do social media campaigns with the Disneyland resorts for different social media and launch events. I have to admit, it is a great gig. Some of the brilliance of what Disney has done is to allow you to completely interact wit…
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Oct
28
Pixo Form Templates Add-on Now Available for Concrete5 5.7
The very popular concrete5 Pixo Form Templates add-on is now available for the concrete5 5.7 content management system. This add-on is perfect when you need to fit a text field and it's label into a limited space such as a sidebar.
To apply the custom templates that come with this add-on you simply …
Categories: Concrete5 CMS
Oct
26
The Most Cutting Edge Brokerage Website in the Industry
One of the most sophisticated websites we’ve ever built and the most forward-thinking website for financial and life insurance advisors was launched by Pixo this last week. Built on the Concrete5 content management system (learn more), the BrokersAlliance.com website puts at the agent’s finger tips…
Categories: Website Design
Oct
08
Concrete5 5.7 Down Under (And Everywhere International)
One great thing about the concrete5 content management system (CMS) is that its fame is worldwide. Business owners and website administrators have pretty quickly adopted what is one of the fast growing open source CMS in the market today. I love it when someone from Canada, Sweden, Spain or anywhe…
Categories: Concrete5 CMS
Sep
16
How Analytics Teamed with Great Design Can Increase Page Views by 18% Overnight
I like to take a look at analytics on a regular basis for our search engine optimization clients to see what users are doing when they get to the site. Having great rankings in Google is important, but if you aren't converting those site visitors it doesn't really matter what your rankings are if t…
Categories: Website Design
Sep
14
Kudos to Concrete5 Team for a New 5.6 Release
The concrete5 team made a touch decision about 1 1/2 years ago when they decided to change directions with the release of Concrete5 5.7. Since you cannot upgrade a 5.6 site to 5.7 to some it kind of felt like they had been abandoned the community with the change in architecture for Concrete5. Alth…
Categories: Concrete5 CMS
Sep
04
Why 9News Chose MileHighMamas.com when Talking About Mommy Blogging
This morning Denver's 9News did a featured story on how to make money doing mommy blogging. Some mom's make a great income from blogging, but they are the exception. Really mommy blogging isn't about an income for most. Pixo's Amber Johnson will tell you that most of the big name mommy bloggers b…
Categories: mommy blogging
Aug
21
Additional Evidence That What We Said About Google Panda is True
Just came across this interesting article that further supports our own finding for where Google is going for their search algorithm:
http://searchengineland.com/yes-click-rate-ranking-signal-225873
In addition, found patent filings from Google about ranking sites based on"user feedback:"
https://pa…
Categories: Search Engine Optimization
Aug
13
The Definitive Answer to What "Quality" Means to Google in Panda 4.2
You might be confused, like many of us, what Google considers a quality website in the latest Panda 4.2 release of Google's ranking algorithm. Google defines some of this here, but in a deep reading you'll find that much of what Google defines is kind of vague. In Google's latest release of the al…
Categories: Search Engine Optimization
Jul
29
How to Fix the 'Googlebot cannot access your JavaScript and/or CSS files' for Concrete5
Don’t be alarmed if you received a warning from Google in your email today — many webmasters were recently alerted that “Googlebot cannot access your JavaScript and/or CSS files.”
Google sent out this warning via Search Console, while also reminding them that Googlebot’s inability to access those fi…
Categories: Concrete5 CMS
