http://www.websiteoffice.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:35:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Whenever you are designing a website, there are several key components that you need to examine and consider before you even begin. One of these key components is how you want to appear to your customers. One of the biggest parts of this is the voice you use ... http://www.websiteoffice.com/2008/09/connecting-with-your-customers-through-design/ Knowing the importance of Local Search is one thing. It is another to make sure that your site is optimized for the best results. While you can add your business to local search listings, making sure that your site is found is another thing. There are several ... http://www.websiteoffice.com/2008/09/improving-your-local-search-results/ On social news sites, stories are generally given value by the comments that accompany them. A story on one of these sites that has no comments is like a website without links, it doesn’t look lie it has gotten much attention. The flipside to this, however, is that ... http://www.websiteoffice.com/2008/09/the-power-of-social-news-sites/ You may be wondering what, exactly, I mean by this. While this adage holds true in many fields, it may not seem like it applies to your site. This, however, is where you would be wrong. I am going to look at your code, and let you know ... http://www.websiteoffice.com/2008/09/yes-there-is-such-a-thing-as-too-much/ While there is no sure fire way to ensure that you can get top results in Google’s local search, or any other local search for that matter, there are several things that you can do to make sure that you are maximizing your potential on these services. It is really ... http://www.websiteoffice.com/2008/09/growing-your-presence-in-local-search/ While you may be considering all of the things that you need to be doing to landing pages, home pages, tweaks you need to make to your navigation, and making sure that all of your content is new and continually updated, you may be overlooking a key component of your ... http://www.websiteoffice.com/2008/08/get-rid-of-that-shopping-cart-with-the-squeaky-wheel/ You may be wondering what I could possibly be hoping to achieve by writing about this. You have worked hard to establish your site and domain and you can’t possibly think of why you should have another one. The answer is simple: by having alternate domain names, you ... http://www.websiteoffice.com/2008/08/choosing-alternate-domain-names/ The first thing you need to know before you examine what you might be doing wrong, is a definition of what social media actually is. A very basic simple definition of social media is “a group of tools and sites that let you easily create and share content online.” ... http://www.websiteoffice.com/2008/08/how-a-business-can-go-wrong-with-social-media/ In a day when web access is important no matter where you are, the ability of your customers to access your site at their convenience is vital. Making your site as user friendly as possible on a computer is one thing; making sure that your site is available from ... http://www.websiteoffice.com/2008/08/the-importance-of-mobile-accessibility/ Google trends allows you to compare the popularity of searches over a fairly wide spread of time. Google Trends also offers another useful tool that will provide the focus of this post: Hot Trends. Hot Trends allows you to see which searches have experienced a dramatic increase in ... http://www.websiteoffice.com/2008/08/the-timeliness-of-paid-search-advertising/