by Douglas Dye | Mar 20, 2013 | E-Commerce, Help for small business, Search Engine Optimization
We have built many e-commerce websites for all kinds of businesses. We have seen great successes and great failures for our e-commerce sites, and there tends to be one common theme in the ones that failed. The failures were almost always the smallest businesses....
by Douglas Dye | Jan 7, 2013 | Help for small business, Search Engine Optimization, Web Design
From the SEO.com blog. We already do all of these things for our WordPress clients, but it’s a very good read. The first great point: WordPress handles canonical URLs properly, the way Google and other search engines like it, and the way most people would like...
by Douglas Dye | Jun 11, 2012 | Budget Websites, Help for small business, Search Engine Optimization, Web Design, Website Analysis
NOTE: We have decided that the “How To Analyze Your Own Website” blog post that was linked here is too difficult for most non-experts to do themselves. So now we will begin offering FREE ANALYSIS of your small business website. Or you can submit the form...
by Douglas Dye | May 25, 2012 | Help for small business, Search Engine Optimization, Web Design
It’s amazing how ubiquitous WordPress has become. You see it everywhere, and you see so many web designers using it that sometimes it seems like WordPress has taken over the small business world, especially in this area. But what are local companies actually doing...
by Douglas Dye | Apr 21, 2012 | Help for small business
While on my first cup of coffee this morning, I saw this: “For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing Internet connections this summer. Unknown to most of them, their problem began when international...
by Douglas Dye | Mar 27, 2012 | Search Engine Optimization, Web Design
“Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, announced as a side note during his panel at SXSW that Google is releasing an algorithm update specifically to target sites over doing their SEO. Matt Cutts said this is Google’s attempt to “level the...
by Douglas Dye | Mar 1, 2012 | Help for small business, Web Design
In this post I’ll address some things I have heard, or been asked recently by potential clients. Although other web designers might give somewhat different answers, most of this is pretty common knowledge for web designers in general. Can I use Facebook instead of a...
by Douglas Dye | Feb 14, 2012 | Help for small business, Web Design
Several times in the past year I have had to deal with new clients that came to us because they weren’t getting good service, or because their previous web design company didn’t know what they were doing. In several cases, we had to fight the previous web design...
by Douglas Dye | Jan 29, 2012 | Web Design
There has been something of a dichotomy in web design lately. One school of thought says that people like really big headers, with sliders or slideshows. Another school of thought uses an older theory, that site visitors shouldn’t be made to scroll to see the site...
by Douglas Dye | Jan 18, 2012 | Search Engine Optimization, Web Design
I hate to be a buzz kill, but I say no, SEO doesn’t work for everybody. I’ve designed over 150 business websites with Richmond Media, and probably 100 of those had some sort of SEO package. And no, some of those businesses are probably not good candidates...