By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways Accessibility overlay widgets don’t make you ADA-compliant. Courts and disability advocates have said so repeatedly. ADA lawsuits against small businesses are still climbing — projected up 20-25% again in 2026, with 432 new filings in August alone. Overlays can actually make sites worse for…
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By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways The $2.95/month web host deal is real — for exactly the length of your first term. Then it triples or quadruples. Renewal shock is by design. The industry knows how many people will not switch hosts, and prices the “captive year” accordingly. Add-ons are…
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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 AI Overviews now show on roughly half of all Google searches, and on many local queries they push the map pack down — sometimes off the first screen entirely. Some East Texas businesses have seen 30–50% drops in map-pack driven traffic since the shift.…
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