By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways Homepage videos can help — but only when the video says something the photos can’t. They can also destroy your site’s performance: autoplay video is one of the top killers of Core Web Vitals. Use video for storytelling (a walkthrough of the shop, a…
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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 East Texans are day-tripping more this summer — the News-Journal has run stories about it as gas and grocery prices bite. Day-trippers plan on their phones the morning of. If your business is not in their first three taps, you are not on the…
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By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways Ninth Avenue Foods is breaking ground on a $76 million Longview facility and bringing roughly 150 jobs to the area. 150 new commutes reshape the neighborhood. Lunch spots, coffee shops, day care, dry cleaners, gyms, oil-change places — all get a new pool of…
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By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways The Google Business Profile Services section is prime real estate — and most East Texas businesses leave it blank or use one-word entries. Every service you sell should be there as its own entry, with a real 1–3 sentence description. Descriptions cannot be spam.…
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