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SEO

Are you using right keywords in your website content?

April 2, 2012 – 4:30 pm
Using Google Search suggestions to find keywords

Keywords are kinda important Just how important are keywords when it comes to your website content? Hugely. Extremely. Drastically. Extraordinarily. Inordinately. Immensely. As in really, really, really important. Content is the water that feeds your website river (ack, terrible metaphor, is that not? Well, it is early and it IS a Monday!). And keywords make read more »

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SEO

The wrong SEO company can do damage to your wallet

October 5, 2011 – 5:37 pm
Data from The Goonies

Chose your SEO specialist wisely! Or suffer. The right SEO (Search Engine Optimization) company can do amazing things for your organization. The wrong SEO company can do damage to your wallet. Let’s be frank here, Design Spike is not an SEO specialist. Nope, we specialize in building big, bad database driven websites and some pretty read more »

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ORM SEO

Online Reputation Management, pt. 2

August 9, 2011 – 4:12 pm
picture orm 2

Guest Post by intern Perri Greeley (w/a few notes from Ally scattered throughout)  As we discussed in an earlier post, Online Reputation Management (ORM), is a necessary way to keep your name or your organization’s name reliable in the eyes of the customer and media. You can use SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to help your read more »

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SEO Web Design

Navigation vomit is not cool. Bounce rate determines your site’s SEO.

June 14, 2011 – 3:41 pm
Kitchen Sink Navigation

Let’s talk about website navigation for a moment. Why oh why would anyone think that 10 or more navigation links is a good idea? Really? It’s almost as if some website designers or website creators, as the case may be, think navigation vomit is cool. Navigation vomit is NOT cool. Nor is it useful. Nor is it productive. So read more »

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SEO Uncategorized

What is “content”? You try searching for it…no one wants to define it.

May 4, 2011 – 5:08 pm
Queen Narcissa from Enchanted

What is content? Try a Google search. No one seems to want to define content (as in social media content). Plenty of hits on “content strategy” and “ways to find great content”, but very little on just what the heck content means. So let’s play with this, shall we? Scottie Clayborne says it’s the “stuff read more »

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SEO Uncategorized Web Design

How many clicks does it take to get to the center of your Elvis Wedding package?

April 26, 2011 – 5:44 pm
Image via cupidswedding.com

If there is one thing Elvis wedding shopping has taught me, it’s that it ain’t all about SEO (ie. 1st ranked in a Google search ). You need an actionable website to back that #1 ranking up! It’s about the choices the site gives visitors when they hit the landing page. What good is being ranked #1 read more »

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SEO success & keyword fail (hint: the Flash-Monster strikes again!)

April 7, 2011 – 8:50 pm
Flash Monster, SEO Fail, Design Spike, keyword search

Today’s blog post was going to be a small dissertation on color selection and web design. And it was going to be a professionally written piece extolling color schemes and swatches. Yeah, that’s so really not going to happen. At least not today. Nope, this post brings back the reign of Queen Narcissa (that’s QN for short) and is a look read more »

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