The Captain Coder Podcast

If you're a web developer who spends most of their time coding, you may be wondering why you need to care about digital marketing.

If you're a web designer who builds websites with SquareSpace or WordPress themes, you may be wondering how you can charge more for the websites you're building.

Here's the thing - why you need to care about digital marketing as a web developer is the same reason someone who builds websites without code needs to care.

In today's episode, I'm going to take you through the ways digital marketing skills can help you earn more money, add recurring revenue to your business, and help you create higher-quality websites.

Let's dive in!

When you're building a website for someone, the whole point is that it can be found on Google and other search engines.

And yet, I often get brought in after someone else has built a website to perform an SEO audit and find the missing pieces. Do you want to know something? I find the same missing pieces in most of the websites I review.

Get ahead of your peers and churn out higher-quality projects by following these 5 easy steps to improving on-page SEO.

Want a way to become a better developer and instantly be able to charge a bit more for the websites you build? Build for digital accessibility best practices!

If you haven’t heard or seen any conversations on digital accessibility and making inclusive content lately, I’d be surprised.  Want a really quick summary of why your website should be inclusive? The more inclusive the website, the better the on-page SEO will be. 

I often hear that creating websites with digital accessibility in mind can be "too much." That's a myth! It’s not the overwhelming task you think it is.

In fact, if you make just a few tweaks to your own workflows and your websites, you can do a lot in a little amount of time to make your websites inclusive – no matter if the person viewing it is hard of hearing, has visual impairments, or other different abilities.

In this week's episode, discover the simple steps you can take to start building your websites and creating content that is inclusive and adheres to digital accessibility best practices.

When someone comes to you for a website, you want to build them something that converts and bring them leads, right? After all, a happy customer leaves great reviews and will do work with you in the future.

Their homepage is where a lot of customers will be making quick, rapid decisions.

So how can you create a homepage for your clients that keeps users clicking through and even converts? Let’s break it down!

Welcome to the Digital Masters podcast! Each week I'm going to walk you through things I've learned in my 16 years as a web developer and digital marketing strategist to grow your own business, add revenue, and improve your customers' results.