Web Design
Break Up (With) Your Services Page to Increase Sales
Do a local search on Google… how about ‘house painter Augusta Ga’, now, notice how none of the results are actually House Painters in Augusta Ga. (except for the Google Local results). Ever wonder why that happens? Does Google have something against house painters or small businesses… not at all. A big cause for this [...]
Engaging Your Customer on Your Local Web site
Chris Linnett has a nice post at Search Engine Land, The Future Of Rich Media On Local Sites. In this article, he goes over the pros/cons of adding various types of media on local business sites. “Yet despite the popularity of rich media elsewhere on the Internet, the use of photos and videos on local [...]
Local Optimization with Images
When you have a website, you want to build and optimize it to rank as well as it can in the major search engines. Everyone wants to be on the first page. Whether is it global or local search, there are many techniques a webmaster can employee to accomplish this. Small business owners, please be [...]
Building Small Business Websites for Today (Part 2)
Yesterday I spoke about your website and used Stoney’s ebook as a resource you can pick up to get all the specifics. To summarize though-your website needs to be built to succeed. You need to plan or deal with such things as: domain name content types of pages to have (about us, faq, etc) site [...]
Building Small Business Websites For Today (Part 1)
A lot has changed in online marketing since I put together my first website, back in the mid 1990s. The days of simply putting up a webpage(s) online, getting some links, and submitting it to the search engines are long gone. It takes alot more for a website to be successful online these days. (I [...]
Making a Mobile Ready Web Site
Building a mobile ready website is not as easy as it sounds. I am also a web site designer, with 6+ years of experience and even I am getting confused on all of the options out there right now. I know as time goes on and the local mobile market stablizes, the standard for mobile [...]
Taking Care of Business Every Day
This week’s posting in Local Only at Search Engine Land is Taking Care Of Business By Taking Care Of The Customer: Five Tips For Local Search by Chris Linnett. Chris makes an excellent point, that the customer is key in anything you do in local search. They are the ones searching for local services/products and [...]
