COLLABORATION | Strategy Calendar and Call SOP

Content Strategy Calendar Meeting During this meeting, the CC and CEM will complete the final draft of the Content Strategy Calendar. This includes any blog notes, relevant blogs, LSIs, or any other pertinent details in the blog section of the calendar. To prepare for the meeting: Any LSIs, relevant links, blogs for the blog section … Continued

Q4Launch Policy for Creation of In-House SEO Content Creation for OSRs

Netvantage doesn’t create content. Instead, they edit and optimize what’s already there. However, in the OSR (on-site review), Netvantage sometimes recommends creating pages that don’t exist on customer sites. If NetVantage recommends creating content for a page that doesn’t exist, you have three options to manage the creation of that content: 1. Ask the customer … Continued

Setting Up Open Weather Widget

The Open Weather Widget we use on our websites is useful for potential guests, but it can be problematic to set up. Specifically, if you put the city ID code in the wrong field, it won’t work. Additionally, when you search for city IDs, it bafflingly specifies city and country, but not the state. In cases … Continued

301 Redirect of Old Domain to New Domain OR Force Remove WWW

Sometimes we need to force redirection from OLD domains to NEW.. #Q4LAUNCH 301 REDIRECT OLD DOMAIN TO NEW DOMAIN RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^OLDDOMAIN\.com [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.OLDDOMAIN\.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://NEWDOMAIN\.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC] #END Q4LAUNCH 301 REDIRECT OLD DOMAIN TO NEW DOMAIN #Q4LAUNCH 301 REDIRECT OLD DEMO DOMAIN TO NEW PROD DOMAIN RewriteEngine on RewriteCond … Continued

Q4Launch Official Cookie Policy

Below is the official cookie policy for any Q4Launch customer, who uses one of the Q4Launch websites! If your customer needs one or is insist we have one you can use the below text. **Please change out the links below.    This website uses cookies to help us enhance your browsing experience.  By using this website … Continued

Dev Site Indexed By Google

I recommend all CEMs check their accounts for Dev sites that were indexed by Google. This happens when the dev site’s Dashboard > Settings > Reading > Search Engine Visibility is unchecked – for whatever reason. You can easily identify this with a Google Site search: site:devdomainname.q4-host.com If you identify a dev site that was … Continued

Setting Time Parameters for IceGram Pop-Ups & Banners

1. Access your Icegram campaign: Icegram > Campaigns > Click on your campaign   2. Click on “Display Rules” tab and click on “Schedule” option next to “When?   3. Select your dates and click on “Update”   FINISHED!

Scrubbing Email Lists Prior to ActiveCampaign Import

While most of the emails a customer provides us are typically good – past customers, newsletter subscribers, etc., there are usually also emails that should not be included. There are several types of email addresses that we never want to include in a contact list that we upload to Mailchimp. Bad emails hurt our open … Continued

How to Hold a Meeting

Meetings can be fantastic tools to get things done faster.   But most people have an image of meetings being a terrible waste of time.   And some can be. Following the rules outlined in this guide will ensure that meetings you manage will be an effective and productive use of time. Before the Meeting: … Continued

How to Maintain a Healthy Email Marketing Contact List

Many small business owners like to treat their contact list size as bragging rights. Here’s one example contact list from a customer that owns a 5-room bed and breakfast. Their contact list has a larger population than three times the average town in America. But there’s a catch. On average, only 11.3% people on the … Continued