by Arthur Breur | Jan 29, 2021 | Behind The Curtain
by Arthur Breur When we moved into our floating home in 2017, the upstairs was very much like a loft: the master bedroom and the living area were connected over the top of the master bathroom. We always joked that the original master bath was like a Las Vegas hotel...
by Arthur Breur | Jan 29, 2021 | Newsletter
On January 7-9, 2021, the first annual “Ultimate Music Business Summit” premiered with 27 online presentations and multiple live panels, each discussing different business topics specifically in terms of how they relate to people who work—any level and any...
by Arthur Breur | Jan 25, 2021 | FireSpike 101
In this video, FireSpike founder Arthur Breur talks about how FireSpike works every month to protect your website, and the two ways they they work to keep your website live, secure, and working for...
by Arthur Breur | Jan 12, 2021 | Newsletter
Mobile-First Indexing It is pretty obvious nowadays that people are using their phones to search for things on the Internet more than they are using laptops or desktop computers. Google and other search engines have taken this fact into consideration, and now give...
by Arthur Breur | Dec 21, 2020 | Behind The Curtain
This is a snow story. It starts out sounding like a summer fun story. But trust me: this is a snow story…Have you ever had one of those times when something was supposed to be really straightforward and easy, but then it turned into… an...
by Arthur Breur | Dec 21, 2020 | Newsletter
Remember the beginning of 2020? Didn’t it seem to be pretty much like any other year?And when the Coronavirus news started, it seemed like it would be the same as other virus scares of the past: SARS was scary, H1N1 was scary, and Ebola was probably the scariest of...
by Arthur Breur | Dec 15, 2020 | Newsletter
You know the feeling: you’re using a company’s website and just waiting forever for a page to load. You hate it when it happens to you—and your customers hate it when it happens to them. Even more, Google uses site speed as a factor when deciding on a web...
by Arthur Breur | Nov 24, 2020 | Newsletter
It is traditional this time of year to share what we are thankful for, and two of the things I am constantly thankful for are FireSpike’s talented team and for our amazing clients. I honestly feel that our family of customers is a remarkable set of people and...
by Arthur Breur | Nov 24, 2020 | Behind The Curtain
You can learn how to do just about anything on YouTube. I don’t know that I’d trust a surgeon from YouTube University, but for day-to-day things, there is a ton of expertise up there. And thus it was on a Thanksgiving years ago, that I found myself with an imminent...
by Arthur Breur | Nov 16, 2020 | Tips
FireSpike’s “battle cry” is “Create, Protect, Promote!” The second part of that battle cry refers to our providing maintenance and security for our clients’ WordPress websites. WordPress is complex, and it is made even more so by...
by Arthur Breur | Oct 28, 2020 | Behind The Curtain
I lived in Cedar Rapids from 2008 to 2011, in a very “suburban” neighborhood with plenty of families. Our neighborhood was known in the area as being safe and quiet, all streets ending in cul-de-sacs. With that in mind, folks would drive from all around to take their...
by Arthur Breur | Oct 28, 2020 | Newsletter
Google Analytics is a free service that gives website owners a wide range of information about the visitors to their websites: where the visitors are, what kind of device they’re using to view the site, which other site or search engine referred them to the site, and...
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