By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways An AI-written website has a smell. Once you know the smell, you cannot un-smell it. Customers notice too, even the ones who cannot articulate it — they call it “something felt off.” Five tells give away most AI copy: the em-dash spam, the “delve”…
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By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways In Texas, most small business websites do not need a cookie banner. Texas privacy law does not require one. You may still need one if you sell to Californians, Europeans, or you run Meta Pixel and Google Ads without Consent Mode. The Texas Data…
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By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways The average small business WordPress site I audit has 22–35 active plugins. That is 3–4x what the site actually needs. Every plugin is code that runs. Runs slowly, on someone else’s schedule, with someone else’s security discipline. Plugins are the #1 cause of slow…
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By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways “Domain Authority” is a Moz invention, not a Google metric. Google has said, out loud, dozens of times that it is not. SEO agencies love DA because it’s easy to sell. A rising DA feels like progress even when your traffic is flat. What…
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By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways FAQ Schema is small structured code that tells search engines — and AI Overviews — the exact questions and answers on your page. AI Overviews disproportionately quote FAQ-structured content when they summarize an answer. It is a plug-in-and-fill-out job on WordPress (Rank Math, Yoast,…
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