Google is making changes to analytics and this will affect your website and tracking. Google will be ending tracking with Universal Analytics by July 1, 2023 You may start seeing some notices regarding this from Google. What does this mean to you? This means that if your website uses Google Analytics and you want to …
In spite of best efforts, sometimes unforeseen issues arise with hosting and email. To improve communications with you, we have set up a system status page. Please bookmark it so you can check the page, for any known email or hosting issues. We will post status updates here: https://cmswebsolutions.statuspage.io/ and will share whatever information we …
It’s Thanksgiving and we have so much to be grateful for. We are thankful to all the essential workers including: all Heath Care Providers, Truck Drivers, Grocery Store, Drug Store, Gas Station, Government employees, Maintenance workers and the list goes on. We are also so thankful for the creativity of many of our clients adapting …
CMS Web Solutions continues to monitor the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Canada and around the World. Since SARS, CMS Web Solutions has been gradually making our business and infrastructure more resilient. Our top priorities are the health and safety of our team members and support partners, providing mission-critical services to our clients. Infrastructure support was designed …
Don’t be fooled by domain renewal scams which you may receive by postal letter as a “Domain Name Expiration Notice”or by email. By mail they come from iDNS Canada, which has also been known as Domain Registry of Canada (DROC). These notices look very legitimate and even provide a return envelope and you can actually …
Google Warned Us and they are on a Roll: Back in 2016 Google warned us and we warned you, that your website needed to be mobile friendly or your rankings would suffer. Google warned us that they would be switching from a desktop focussed index to a mobile-first index and it’s happening now. Below is an excerpt of the …
Important Reminder from Google: Review your Data Retention Settings before they take affect on May 25th, 2018! Effective May 25th, 2018 Google is changing the data retention controls of your Google Analytics. If Google Analytics is set up on your own account (as is the case with most of our clients) then you would have …
Starting in April 2015 Google wanted your website to be more mobile friendly and if it wasn’t they started penalizing non-mobile friendly websites, on their search engine, when visitors searched from a mobile device. (Google article here) “The search engine already promotes sites that work well on mobile devices over ones that don’t, a change introduced in …
It used to be that we would get frantic calls: “My web designer has gone out of business … help!” The seasons have changed and the current call of the wild, from those business owners that like to live dangerously, seems to be like this: “My free (or purchased) website theme isn’t working for me. …
Sharing information on social media networks and blogging have become increasingly popular in recent years. In the past we have talked about Social Media Communication and Online Marketing, but in this post we’ll talk about the reasons to add a blog to your website. 4 reasons to add a blog to your website: It’s a way of …