Web Design and SEO

The magic question out there is: “How do I get more traffic to my website?” We get many calls where that’s the first thing out of their mouth. They need help getting traffic to their site. Great! That’s what we can do! Let me give you a few tips now. Basically, what it comes down [...]

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We have launched our new website! Our 10th anniversary just passed and now we have a new website to go along with the milestone date. The new site has a lighter look and is more modern and cleaner. As with any business out there, you eventually just outgrow your old website if you keep using [...]

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Save Money on a Website You’re looking at your current website and you know it can be better. It’s old and out of date. It won’t let you do what you want it to do and you wonder if it’s actually hurting your business but a new website just isn’t in the budget – or [...]

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People ask us how to get more traffic. If people just call up and say that, sometimes I’ll bluntly ask them, “why do you want more traffic?” It seems like a dumb question but I want to see if they know the answer. They answer that they needs more sales or leads. This opens the [...]

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More Visitors to Your Website, You Say? “How do we get more visitors and traffic?” That’s the million dollar question, really. We hear it a lot and do enjoy answering it. The short answer is that it will take some work. The long answer is that it’ll take more work. Actually, there are some things [...]

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As a follow up to my How Do You Blog? (http://www.webstix.com/how-do-you-blog.html) post last week, here’s an article I got delivered to my inbox today (via an e-newsletter) that discusses how to find topics to blog about: Where to Get Inspiration for Blog Posts (http://searchenginewatch.com/3642058) (searchenginewatch.com) I write several blog posts every month — most of [...]

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We’ve seen a lot of business owners make a pretty big change lately. They’ve axed their yellow pages ads and have put those resources into advertising on the web. It only makes sense because that’s where people are looking. The phone book is getting smaller and smaller – so small, that you wonder why anyone [...]

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It’s pretty easy to admit that website development companies do not have a reputation for being on time delivering projects and updates to websites. We hear about it all the time. People can’t believe that Webstix can get updates done really quickly. I thought I’d go over some reasons why there are problems getting website [...]

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It’s time to post some more articles about SEO (search engine optimization). Not only is it time to start working on it if you want to do well for Christmas this year but just to do well for the rest of the year. The year is almost half over with. If you meant to start [...]

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One difference between website design and print design (as there are many) is that the website can look and work drastically different depending on which web browser you are using. Some History Back in the 1990s, HTML was being developed at a rapid pace. New versions of HTML were coming out every few months and [...]

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It’s time to post some more articles about SEO (search engine optimization). Not only is it time to start working on it if you want to do well for Christmas this year but just to do well for the rest of the year. The year is almost half over with. If you meant to start [...]

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It’s pretty easy to admit that website development companies do not have a reputation for being on time delivering projects and updates to websites. We hear about it all the time. People can’t believe that Webstix can get updates done really quickly. I thought I’d go over some reasons why there are problems getting website [...]

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We’ve seen a lot of business owners make a pretty big change lately. They’ve axed their yellow pages ads and have put those resources into advertising on the web. It only makes sense because that’s where people are looking. The phone book is getting smaller and smaller – so small, that you wonder why anyone [...]

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As a follow up to my How Do You Blog? (http://www.webstix.com/how-do-you-blog.html) post last week, here’s an article I got delivered to my inbox today (via an e-newsletter) that discusses how to find topics to blog about: Where to Get Inspiration for Blog Posts (http://searchenginewatch.com/3642058) (searchenginewatch.com) I write several blog posts every month — most of [...]

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Probably the best way to get better rankings for your website and get more traffic is to add more content to it.The phrase content is king has held true from the early days of the Internet because people get on the web to search for something. If you have what they’re looking for and Google [...]

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I just have to do a quick post and say WOW! We’ve recently found some killer WordPress plugins that are really working well for clients. They help with SEO and website performance (which also helps with SEO… again, think like Google – they want to deliver results (websites) that load quickly). If you have a [...]

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If Google does not trust your website, it may not be ranking well. Google does have humans check out websites for their appearance and that evaluation does seem to go into website rankings: Why Google’s Panda Algorithm Update Dropped Sites (http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/110304-095114) (blog.searchenginewatch.com) One key element is whether Google trusts your site. How does Google determine [...]

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We just wanted to make you aware of a workshop coming up in about a week aimed at non profit organizations, who are feeling the pinch of this recession. If non profit organizations want to succeed in this new economy, they need to adjust so that they can still raise the funds that they need [...]

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Well, we’re starting our 10th year this year here at Webstix and I think I’ve about seen it all. We’ve had numerous clients choose the cheaper option instead of us and then we’ve seen them come back to us to fix things later. There’s no doubt that it ended up costing them more in dollars [...]

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