Goodbye Desktop! Google Rolling Out Completely Mobile-First Index

In March 2021, Google’s index will remove desktop-only websites from its index. If you haven’t already made accommodations to shift your website to being responsive, then you can expect your organic traffic to drop drastically — or disappear entirely.

5 Tips For Choosing The Right Imagery For Your Website

Content creation can be hard. However, if you’ve gone through the effort of writing a solid piece of content for your website, why stop short and leave visuals as an afterthought?

Top 4 Ways Social Media Marketing Can Help Increase Your Profits

Ever wonder why so many people are obsessing over social media and the power that it can have on a business? Or maybe how a tweet, story or hashtag can lead to a sale? Well, we are here to shed some light on social media marketing and how it has the ability to foster some new opportunities and profits for your business. 

Google Ads vs. Facebook Ads: Which is the Advertising Platform For You?

When it comes to deciding which platform is best for you it is important to understand what makes each platform unique. Facebook ads and Google ads differ in many different ways and recognizing each component will make choosing a platform that much easier.

Quarantine & Lead Generation - A Match Made For Success

As much as we love working in the office, meet up with friends or shopping in person, it might not be the best time to do that. Because of this downtime, it has led to an increase in an online presence. For the time being this is our current reality, so we can try and work together in order to make the best out of this bad situation.

Still in Quarantine, Still Going Strong

Throughout this quarantine, many of us have been put into situations that we are not accustomed to and may have never experienced. While many office settings can be similar, the RC Design office is all about collaboration, consistent communication, and boosting morale. This is now something we have to achieve outside of the office.

We are still the RC You Know and Love

We are here to thank all those who are putting in the extra time to help the community and let our clients know that our commitment to ensuring they achieve the best possible results for their business has not changed even if the rest of the world has.

How should small businesses handle marketing challenges caused by the outbreak of COVID-19?

The fallout of the coronavirus pandemic arrived on the doorstep of Canadian small businesses much quicker than expected. Now, businesses face new challenges to quickly piece together action plans that address marketing, communications, internal staffing and remote work policies.

RC Community Connections: Paying It Forward This Holiday Season

At RC Design, we believe in quality of work and quality of living. We also believe in the essential value of strengthening, supporting, and investing in our community. That’s why we’ve chosen to shed light on some of our amazing clients, highlighting some of the inspiring charitable work they’re doing this holiday season to make our community a more compassionate and caring place to live and work.

RC Community Connections: Small Business Saturday

As a small business with strong ties to our community, we’re big supporters of shopping small and shopping local. We’re also blessed to be located in an area that is also home to so many awesome (and delicious!) small businesses!

RC Community Connections: Quality of Work. Quality of Life.

At RC Design, we’re not only dedicated to the quality of our work but also the quality of life in our community: We create beautiful things and tell impactful stories. We also have an incredible, creative team with great big hearts, who are passionate about our work, dedicated to our clients, and talented in what they do. That’s why we’ve chosen to launch our new article series: RC Community Connections, to shed light on the incredible work being done by our team, partners, and across York Region.

Do Article Titles Even Matter?

Titles are the first (and possibly the only) piece of your content that your reader is ever going to see. If it’s not great, whatever is hidden under that title is likely not going to be read.

Can you ever cut corners on SEO?

So you sort of get the value of SEO but as time and budget constraints creep in, you might be considering going it alone or prioritizing some parts over others. You could cut some corners but with something that provides such measurable results, a step back and a more holistic view is usually called for...

How to Read the Minds of your Target Audience with User Personas

A website shouldn't aspire to be something that designers would love to click through—it’s to resonate with customers and address their needs. User Personas help tell you what your customers want and give a solid direction to keep your team on track.

How a Content Calendar can help you reduce stress and add years back to your life

You’ve decided that this is the year that you’re going to be active on social media. (Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.) A blog post every week - no, two blog posts! And then a month later, reality strikes backs.

Dancing with the Stars: How to gain an edge on Google with awesome customer reviews

If someone ain’t happy with your business, they aren’t going to wait for your permission to tell the world about it. Read on to get a better look at how online customer reviews can have a significant and tangible benefit for your business.

Nobody actaully notices typos, right?

Like it or not, we aren’t all spelling bee champions. And whether it’s the crush of hitting the deadline or simple carelessness, typos do happen.

The ins and outs of website maintenance

Just like the delicate inner mechanisms of a fine watch, there are a lot of different moving parts in a website. Tweak this one thing over here and that thing over there suddenly spits out an error.

4 Insanely Useful Features in Google Search Console for SEO

Repeat after me: “Data is my friend.” It helps me make decisions. The good kind of decisions, fuelled by goals and metrics.

“Hey Google, what’s the deal with voice search?”

The future is here in the form of voice search–it’s easy, it’s accessible and it’s completely overhauling the way we interact with search engines.

Why the hell do you cost so much?

It isn’t particularly hard to build a large, clunky and beautiful-but-in-a-chaotic-sort-of-way website. But that will only satisfy your goals if your only goal is to build a website.

How to tell if your website content sucks

A piece of writing needs to communicate purpose and intent to the target reader. It has something meaningful to say to its audience and demands to be read.

Are you just gambling with Google Adwords?

It’s easy to think of Google Adwords like it’s a big ‘ole slot machine. You write your ads, start a campaign and then keep putting money in, hoping that one day you’ll hit the jackpot - with success coming as a combination of persistence and a healthy dose of luck. Fortunately, there’s a lot more to digital marketing than crossing your fingers and pulling out your credit card.

What does it take to build a website that looks great and works?

How long can you expect it to take before your professional, custom-built website is ready to launch? Like, are we talking weeks? Months? …. Years?

Why Google might hate your SEO efforts (and what that means for ranking #1)

Google has learned a lot since its early days as a young and naive search engine. But since then it has grown up, learned from the mistakes and assumptions it made in the early days, and gained valuable life experience and wisdom.

How to write website content that is worth reading

Why is it often such a struggle to get content ready when building a website? Well, simply put, it’s hard. Content done right is the culmination of hours of business discovery, target audience research and brainstorming. It is written to tease and invoke the senses. It sparkles, shines and dances in its playfulness. It resolves smoothly and provokes action. If you fail to give proper attention to both content development and design, your message falls apart.

RC Design wins Community Award from Applied Arts!

We are proud to announce that our design has won in its category in the Applied Arts Community Awards!

2017 is the year of HTTPS

The web is constantly changing and improving. Last year we saw a huge trend for mobile and responsive websites. This year, the biggest trend will be securing the web.

What’s the point of Keyword Research?

Every proper search engine optimization campaign begins with keyword research. Like macaroni and cheese, they simply belong together. But what is the point of keyword research? Is there really a purpose or is it all a bunch of superfluous mumbo jumbo? This blog post endeavours to explain the ins and outs of this task.

I’ll take the #1, please! SEO Expectations vs SEO Realities

We hear the phrase “I want to be first on Google” quite often around here. And it’s certainly a good goal to have - first place in the organic search results often translates into extra traffic, extra leads and extra customers. But what different factors influence a successful SEO campaign?