WDW Marketing & Web Design Blog
Top Technical SEO Mistakes of Growing Websites
Growing a website usually means adding to it: more pages, more locations, more product lines. Most of that growth is worth celebrating. But growth also strains the technical side of…
How to Decrease Bounce Rate: Why Visitors Leave Before Taking Action
Bounce rate gets treated like a single problem with a single fix. It isn’t. A visitor might leave because the page loads too slowly. Or because a search result promised…
Duplicate Content in SEO: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Fix It
Every website grows. New pages, new locations, new services. Somewhere in that growth, duplicate content starts creeping in. It doesn’t look like a problem. No broken page, no error message…
How Bad UX Can Make Visitors Leave and Ruin Your Conversions
Traffic without conversions is one of the more frustrating problems a website can produce. The visibility is working. Something else isn’t. Broken links and missing images get caught fast, because…
Google Business Profile Optimization for Any Local Business: A Step-by-Step Guide
A business can have a stronger reputation, more experience, and better customer relationships than its nearest competitor and still rank below it in local search. The reason is almost always…
How Much Does Website Hosting and Support Cost for a Business in 2026?
Comparing hosting plans looks simple until the proposals are side by side. A $15/month plan and a $600/month plan both technically host a website. What separates them isn’t the server…
Local SEO vs. National SEO: What a Spokane Business Needs
Two businesses can rank on Google for the same keyword and get completely different results from it. A contractor in Spokane Valley and a software company selling to customers across…
How AI Is Changing the Way Local Businesses Get Found
Service businesses operate on a narrow window. When someone in the area decides they need a contractor, a marketing agency, a specialist, they search and they move fast. The businesses…
Benefits of Hiring a Sales Funnel Consultant for Your Small Business
You’ve built a website. You’re running ads, sending emails, maybe posting daily on social media. And leads still aren’t turning into customers the way you expected. That gap between traffic…
Why ChatGPT doesn’t mention your business, and how to change that.
AI tools can’t recommend a business they can’t clearly understand. Learn what actually gets you mentioned in ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity results.
Website Rebuild vs. Redesign: Which Does Your Business Need?
“Rebuild” and “redesign” get used interchangeably online, but they’re not the same, and they don’t cost the same amount. Confusing the two is how business owners end up either overpaying…
6 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Web Design Agency in Spokane
A bad website hire costs more than money. It costs the months you spend waiting for a redesign that doesn’t perform, the customers who leave before your new site ever…
StoryBrand Web Design: What It Is and Why It Works
Most small business websites lose customers in the first five seconds. Not because the design is bad, but because the message is confusing. When visitors land on a homepage, they…
How Well Dressed Walrus Helps Spokane Businesses Show Up in AI Search Results
There’s no shortage of agencies telling you AI search is changing everything right now. Most of them can explain the trend. Fewer can tell you specifically what they’ll do about…
How to Track Whether Your Business Is Receiving AI Citations
You’ve updated your Google Business Profile. Your website explains what you do and who you help. You’ve been collecting reviews. By most measures, you’re doing the right things. But here’s…
How to Show Up in Google’s AI Overviews: A Practical Guide for Small Businesses
A business ranks on the first page of Google. Has for years. Good reviews, a solid website, consistent traffic. Then AI Overviews started appearing at the top of search results,…


