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The Cost of a Quality Website

Administrator — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:09:27 +0100

Off-the-shelf content management systems and design templates have made building and managing a website easy and affordable for small-business owners with modest needs. Not counting your sweat equity, you can build and maintain a small website for less than $250. But, honestly, do you really want to bank your company's online presence and messaging on a low-cost website? Working with a full-service graphic design and web programming firm is a more savvy business decision.<br /><br />Read More...

Do Your Research Before Choosing a Web Design Company

Administrator — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:02:02 +0100

Its hard enough to sift through the thousands of websites looking for a web design service. How do you know if the company is reputable?

First thing is type the companies name in google. By searching the companies name in google it will bring up the most recent information on this company. Most complaints about companies show up in the search engines from other websites such as rip off report and complaint boards.

The second way to check if a company is reputable is using the BBRead More...

5 Dead & Outdated SEO Tactics

Administrator — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:39:40 +0100

SEO has changed dramatically in the last couple of years. Back in the day you can build a website and stuff it with keywords and metatags to get top rankings in the search engines. Nowadays not so much. It's become much more difficult to get the top rankings for most businesses on the web. In this article we are going to talk about 5 SEO tactics that completely dead and not even worth wasting your time trying them.

1. Keyword stuffing.

Using countless number of keywords in the kRead More...

Why Professional Web Design Is Important to your Business

Administrator — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:01:13 +0100

Web design in itself can be a complicated decision for business owners. Choosing from the millions of web designers online can be a full time task in itself. Where do you start? How do you know that web design company is right for you? Before choosing a web design company to develop your website, make sure you follow some tips we outlined below.

Cheap Web Design

If you are looking into getting a website developed for you business and you don't have a budget then don't do it! ManRead More...

Have You Gotten Your Domain Names Covered?

Administrator — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:55:25 +0100

The story of the domain name dispute between etoy.com and eToys.com uncovers an
important issue facing all webmasters, should we register domain names that are similar to
ours? In the eToys debacle, a group of artists registered the domain name "etoy.com" in 1995.

Then in 1997, an online toy store bought the domain name "eToys.com" and in 1999, chose to
sue etoy.com for the use of a similar name. At first, etoy.com was forced to shut down it's site
but thanks to pubRead More...

Google Adwords - How to Set Your Cost Per Click

Administrator — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:52:53 +0100

We've received many emails from customers over the past several years asking how high we recommend setting AdWords' max cost per click. Generally, we recommend that our customers set the price somewhere moderately high, between the "base" rate and the max rate suggested by Google. For this entry though, I've decided to discuss a few options that may help you decide where to set your max cost per click to get a maximum return.

What kind of competition do you have?

Before you starRead More...

Improve Your Websites Performance

Administrator — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:07:40 +0100

How well is your website performing? Are you satisfied with the amount of customers who view your website? Do you get enough business through your website? By reading this article you will be in a position to do something about all three questions.

It's all very well having a nicely designed and appealing website for your business but it's of no use if you don't get the customers to visit it. The number one term you will find associated with this is search engine optimisation. YoRead More...

The Importance of Good Web Design

Administrator — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:50:34 +0100

Naturally there are many aspects to succeeding online but the nature of business hasn't swayed. You must have a professional image and you must provide a great service for your clients. This is what makes a business grow. This is not another article telling you to be sure you have Meta tags, linking and all the other wonderful Search Engine friendly includes. This is a bare bones old school reflection on how companies are losing sight of the bigger picture.

Put some heart into it

Choosing the Right Web Design Company

Administrator — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:49:18 +0100

It's been several years since you had someone design your company web site and now it's outdated. You are losing business to competitors that have quality designed web sites with great layout and navigation. This may be your first company web site and you want to make the most of your money and time.

How do you choose a quality web design company that will understand your companies' objective for designing or redesigning this web site?

First, you need to answer a few queRead More...

Website Content Management System

Administrator — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:47:49 +0100

Having a website is great for your business. It can help you increase sales and profits. Having a website you cannot update yourself is not great! Before having a website designed for your business you need to ask yourself two things. Is my website content going to change? Can I update the website myself?

If you answered yes to one of the questions above, you should make sure your new website has a CMS. A CMS stands for content management system. The CMS allows users that are not experRead More...

Critical Web Design Rules

Administrator — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:42:45 +0100

"Content is King! If you want a website to generate back-links and have quality content the search engines love, be sure to make it readable by both people and search engines. Search engines are working to give people quality results. Thus, they are looking for sites with quality content. So - by building site content for people, not only are you getting back to basics (information dissemination to people via the Internet), you are creating a site search engines will love. So, build sites forRead More...

Paying a Company to Design Your Website

Administrator — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:42:52 +0100

Paying a website design company to design and develop your website is really dependent on what type of site you need. You can use free web design services if you are using a personal site and maybe want to impress you friends or family. If you are a business or corporation this is not the case.

By paying a professional to design your website you are not only saving time you can be saving your business as well. Nowadays websites can be built with a CMS (content management system). TRead More...

Web Design Las Vegas

Administrator — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:37:08 +0100

I have been doing some research lately and not really finding a good amount of quality designers in Las Vegas. I see alot of the same thing. Old cheesy looking web design sites. These sites have not been updated probably in months or even years.

Finding a quality web designer in Las Vegas can be tricky. Just by going online to google typing in Las Vegas web design you are bombarded with over 23 million sites. There is a couple good local listings on google but thats it. If you are Read More...

Advantages & Disadvantages of Website Builders Online

Administrator — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:29:52 +0100

Website builders are becoming popular among many clients. Is a website builder right for your business? You may be seeing the low price tags and low monthly fees associated with website builders. In this article we will go over the advantages and disadvantages of website builders.

Some advantages of website builders are as follows.

* you can make changes at any time with usually no extra costs.
* Plenty of free tools such as bloRead More...

How To Market Your Business Website

Administrator — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:26:25 +0100

Many people have been asking me this very question, how do i market my website online? Well there are many answers and in this post I am going to explain some of the most popular old and new ways to market your website online.

Write Articles/Blog
Setup a blog or write articles and publish them the article houses such as ezinearticles and more. By writing articles on topics of your services or products this can help achieve some pretty good rankings in the search engines. Make Read More...