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Raincoat or Sunscreen? Preparing Your Website for AI Search

Better believe there’s no shortage of forecasts about AI website optimization… what’s coming, when’s the blizzard arriving and the drought and the winds and those raining frog phenomena’s. Sadly it’s …

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Make Your Site Intelligible to AI Bots by Defining Your Identity

Referees introduced something new at the World Cup this summer. During the USA vs Paraguay match they reversed a foul for “mistaken identity”. At openbox9, we have been reviewing our …

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Make Your Site Hospitable to AI Bots by Cleaning Up

The AI bots crawling your website take a virtual tour of every nook and cranny of your house. They see that cabinet stuffed with to-go containers with no matching lids, …

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2016 Website Trends, the Newness

What new(ish) things you’ll hear about this year

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Say What? Meta Description

Understanding Meta Descriptions and why to use them

SEO: Put your Keywords to Work

How to put those keywords to work on your website

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SEO: Yellowpage Games in A Keyword World

Back in the day, companies jockeyed for position in the yellow pages by adding a string of A’s to the beginning of their name. Thus pages of AAAA-lock smith and …

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Do we really need to spill more ink – or wear out more keyboards – on the topic of SEO? Surely not, but there is need to make sense of …

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Use your words. Keywords.

You’ve probably been hearing about all of the expensive work that can be done to your non-profit’s website to help it rank higher on search engines, but we have some …