Tony’s Website Design Blog

This 20-point website analysis covers how your website is set up, how it's functioning and tells you what is missing. It covers things like:

• Is your website coded well?
• How good is the navigation of your website?
• How effective is the copy (text) of your website?
• Has your website been search engine optimized (SEO)?
• Does Google know about your website?

You'll get a final website design analysis score along with a short, face to face meeting where we present our findings to you. This can be done at our office or we can come to your business.

The Sooner, The Better!

You want to get an analysis of your website done right away. Every day that search engines don't like your website or people are turned off is lost business that your competition gets. A website performance analysis tells you how your website is performing and what fine tuning, if any, needs to be done. Even if you think things are fine, there may be just a few, small things that need to be changed, which could make all the difference. It's good to have the professionals take a look once in a while.

There's No Obligation

We'll present the free website analysis to you with our comments and it's yours to keep. Go back to your web developer and get changes done or find out how Webstix can help you improve your website. We offer website design, website promotion and website maintenance services along with programming projects like setting up e-commerce or other types of website like websites with content management systems (CMS).

Get your website analysis today!

We have another suite next month, so hopefully they can pull out a win for us.

Go Mallards!
-Tony

Are PPC Ads Now Counting in Google Organic Backlinks? (searchenginewatch.com)

In the past, I've said there's no direct correlation between editorial rankings and paid advertisements. Well, it seems I was wrong. Paid search really can affect organic search.

The article talks about how paid ads on Google and Yahoo using terms that the site was not optimized for are giving websites better results when people search on those same keywords. If this is how the rules are now, it changes things because you can essentially buy a top position in Google's supposedly organic results.

One nice thing about SEO (search engine optimization) is that you could spend a few thousand dollars doing that and save the $400-500 you were paying monthly using AdWords, giving you more lasting results. So the correct way to do website marketing, it seems, would be to do a bit of both. This isn't anything new except that we haven't seen the paid ads affect the organic results before. This changes the formula.

What I would suggest is doing SEO on the longer tail keywords and then do PPC (pay per click) on keywords that are shorter and harder to optimize for - if your budget allows it. When doing this, you want to make sure you have a website with clear call to action statements the converts your visitors into real sales.

-Tony

Hello! We've got a new blog up now. It's our Webstix Support Blog and it's where we will post information about hosting and other important announcements, including security information.

We will also be moving our support site over to our main Webstix site, so watch for that change, too.

One article I just posted is about how web servers get hacked and generate spam / junk email. It's called "Hacked Servers Generate Spam" and I invite everyone to read it today.

Thanks!
-Tony