Is Your Site Not Ranking? Did it Make Panda Sick? 
Your website isn’t some old rotten medicine a decade or more old, is it? Come on now! Would expired (probably poisonous) medicine heal you or make you sick?
Millions of website designers and SEO’s like us are making an effort to update and fix old websites to attract visitors and encourage them to come back and visit a healthy, friendly website–that won’t make Panda sick!
According to Search Engine Watch, if you think your site HAS made Panda sick (i.e., your ranking has suddenly dropped or you believe it might have been removed from Google’s index), check for the following: Continue reading
Don’t Fear the Panda (or should you?)
Don’t get eaten by Panda! Attend our Do-it-yourself Website Optimization Workshop!
Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 6 – 8 p.m. in our studio in space 59 of the Williamsburg Outlet Mall, 6401 Richmond Road, Williamsburg VA 23188. To reserve your seat, call us @ 757-250-3197, or email us by September 13, 2011. Cost is $45, payable by check, Mastercard, Visa, Discover or PayPal .
When most people hear the word “Panda” they either think of a cute black and white bear that “eats, shoots and leaves” or a big black and white bear with big teeth, but Google’s new Panda search engine is different. In this case, some businesses fear Google Panda, not because it’s a big bear with big teeth, but because if your website has not met Panda’s regulations, your site could get slammed or, in Google-speak, “Pandafied”. Continue reading
It’s a wrap!
SEO tips of the month
What’s your website grade?
For those of you who would like to know how your website is performing, and what steps you can take to improve its performance and search engine ranking, go to websitegrader.com, a free website analysis tool, enter your website address, and click “Generate Report”. The cool thing about this site, is you can also check out your competitions’ websites and see how they rank.
Google Places–location, location, location!
Google Unveils Its New Local Results Search
If you haven’t yet claimed your Google Places Map listing, you better do it quick.
What’s new:
Now, whenever you “Google” a type of business, say, “web design in Williamsburg VA”, the Local Business Results appear at the top, center, and can completely take up the page.
They’ve moved their Google Places Map to the right and, as you scroll the page, the map floats to the top and hides their income-producing Adwords ads (we’ll see how long that lasts!).
Calling All “Uber” Multitaskers!
LaPraya McCoy, a reporter with the Daily Press, one of the large newspapers serving Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA, has contacted us for help with an article she is writing. Here is the email she sent us:
“Hi, I hope all is well. I am currently working on a story about why people multitask and what experts say about multitasking. Do you have any friends who say will have Facebook up, check e-mails, talk on the phone and watch TV all at once? Do you know anyone who you consider a heavy “multitasker,” if so, please let me know asap. E-mail laprayam@yahoo.com with the contact info (phone number, e-mail address, etc.)…. Thanks!”
How about it–any “uber” mutlitaskers out there?
DIY Website Optimization Step 6 – Blogs and Social Media
Blog, become a “social butterfly”, convert visitors to leads and improve your search engine ranking.
Google LOVES blogs, because their content is always changing. A blog can really push your website higher in the rankings, but only if it’s part of your website, like ours is, as opposed to using a third party like Wordpress.com to host it.
Smellycat Blogging Workshop in the News!
In case you might have missed it, the Daily Press ran a great article on our blogging workshops in their 8/29 Sunday edition that included a few nice shout-outs for some of our clients!
Free Meeting Space for Businesses, Business Groups, Organizations
Good news for local businesses and business groups! We’re now offering meeting space, free of charge, to business groups and apolitical organizations in our new Internet business center and video production/photography studio located in space 59 at the Williamsburg Outlet Mall, 6401 Richmond Road in Lightfoot VA. We can seat up to 30 right now, and have tables available for up to 20. If a group brings additional chairs, we can seat up to 50 comfortably. For more information or to make reservations, call us at 757-250-3197, or email us.
DIY Website Optimization, Step 5 – Inbound Links and Directories
This is where you, yourself, with a little time an a lot of patience, can really help improve your website ranking by taking advantage of free listings in online directories, and links to your website from other websites. The best and fastest way to build inbound links is to take advantage of free basic listings in online business directories.
DIY Website Optimization, Step 4 – Domain Age and 301 Redirect
When is your domain name due to expire? The search engines–especially Google, rank websites with domain names that are registered for 5 years or longer higher than those registered for just one year. Why? If you only register it for a year at time, the search engines think that you might be just a temporary or even a “fly-by-night” business.
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