This summer, after hearing so much chatter from clients and prospects about AI and how it might completely reshape the internet, I decided to create a separate brand to focus solely on artificial intelligence: Lieder AI. All year long, I got so many questions and heard so many wild claims (mostly untrue or untested) about … Read more
Today, I received a scam voicemail claiming there was an ‘urgent issue’ with my Google Business Profile. Here’s what it said — and how you can spot scams like this. Hey, this is Alan from the Business Help Center. Today is Monday, uh, the uh, the seventh. We’re having an urgent issue with your Google … Read more
I manage the Facebook pages for several clients and a few weeks ago, I noticed a massive influx of spam messages that say really frightening things, where the sender claims to be working for Facebook/Meta and sends a message to the Facebook page’s inbox saying that the Facebook page is going to be deleted, blocked, … Read more
Here’s an obnoxious email I get sometimes from spammers, and my clients do too. It comes from the “fake good samaritan” type sender who is claiming to have found something wrong with your website and is offering to fix it for free. It goes something like this: I was looking at your website and noticed … Read more
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)! This little-known event is being celebrated by people in the web design/development world to help bring awareness to one of the biggest challenges with technology: ensuring that people with disabilities can still access and use the same digital tools the rest of us rely on every day. Digital … Read more
If you use Google Analytics, you may have noticed a very strange message on the top bar of your screen that says the following: Universal Analytics will no longer process new data in standard properties beginning July 1, 2023. Prepare now by setting up and switching over to a Google Analytics 4 property. Google Analytics … Read more
For many years, I ran a few industry groups to try to help people that either did work or wanted to work in the web design/web development industry. In 2011, I founded a nonprofit membership organization called the Pikes Peak Webmasters Guild. This was a group created for people in the web design/web development and … Read more
Note: a few months ago, someone from a marketing publication reached out to me and emailed me some questions for an interview. I put in the time and effort to thoughtfully consider the questions and write out my answers. As far as I know, that interview was never published. So I’m posting it here so … Read more
2023 Update: I took my own advice and filled out the form since I was a Zoom user. On 03/22/23 (exactly 444 days later), I received a check for almost $200 in the mail. I hope everyone reading this also filled out the form! Have you gotten an email like this one below? Claim Deadline … Read more
Of all the annoying popups, interstitial pages, modal windows and other obnoxious crap on the web, there’s one thing I’d like to draw your attention to and actually tell you not to ignore: the plea on Wikipedia asking for donations. Yes, the bubble at the top of the page toward the end of the year … Read more