Small Business Websites

When you have a website built, your webmaster will enter page titles and meta tags. These are very important to the search engines in being able to find and identify what your website is about and targeting. Search engines have ’spiders’ or ‘bots’ that search the web constantly for new and updated sites [...]

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I want to write articles that target your needs and areas of confusion, so tell me what puzzles you the most about websites.
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Yes, and no. Fonts, type styles or text styles, usually look about the same on every website. I’ve heard it described as ‘boring’. But ‘boring’ has a purpose. When viewing a website, your computer can only show you what fonts it has installed on its hard drive. So, if the web [...]

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Search Engine Optimization or SEO is a generic heading for a lot of different methods used to make your website more search engine friendly. One of the most important aspects of SEO are keywords or key phrases. These describe your business and are words prospective clients might enter into a search engine like [...]

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In this day and age of technology, if someone is visiting your website, it’s so much easier for them to fire off an email to you than to pick up the phone and call. As a result, many sites have their email address listed and when the link is clicked, it opens a mail [...]

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While Domain Nameservers (DNS) and IP addresses might sound overwhelming, they’re really not. Before you can type in www.mysite.com and have it actually go to your site, your nameservers and/or an IP address must be set up. It’s like giving a friend directions to your house. The nameservers and IP addresses are [...]

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It’s said that registering your domain name for 5-10 years is the best option.
There are three reasons why this is true:
1) Google takes your site more seriously if you’re registered for longer lengths of time and will give you a higher search engine ranking than someone registered for only one year.
2) Inflation. [...]

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As you’ve no doubt seen, domain names come in all kinds of endings, called domain name extensions. The only domain extensions I use and most highly recommend are .com and .net. Read more about each below:
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To have a website, you need a domain name. A domain name is www.yoursite.com - literally the address people type in to visit your site. A domain name should include keywords for your business. As an example, www.JDandCompany.com isn’t useful as it doesn’t say anything about what they do. A [...]

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Many of us fear what we don’t know. I know that the thought of fixing my leaking faucet scared me to death. I could already picture the disaster in which the house was under four feet of water and I could see the rubber ducky floating by as I broke down into sobs [...]

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