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Is Yor Website Mobile-Friendly?

If not, you’d better be prepared for diminished Google rankings. I ran across this a few days back and thought I’d share.  We’ve been pushing websites that are responsive in design for a while now.  When we say “responsive”, what we mean is that they will adjust to the screen upon which they are viewed.  A good responsive website design will happily display on a huge 23″ monitor running at 2000+ pixel widths and look good down to a small Android phone screen.  The term “happily display” here means that it is readable without any need for pinch/zoom. See the Google Webmaster source post here Mobile Friendly / Responsive Website There are many websites out there now that use a … Read the rest

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Search Engine Optimization

Penguin 2.0 and your website

Congratulations to everyone who survived Penguin 2.0! All of our websites fared well. We saw the normal jostling of rankings, up a few here, down a couple there. Nothing earth-shattering. If you DID see something traumatic to YOUR website, what happened? We’ll be the likely thousandth to tell you, but if you HAVEN’T heard any of it yet… You or your SEO company probably has gone a little too far to the dark side with their SEO work. And we don’t necessarily mean “blackhat” – of course, that term is even a bit questionable itself. According to the Google TOS, pretty much ANYTHING you do to affect your rankings is strictly taboo. Really, Google? The Penguin 2.0 update was focused … Read the rest

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Press Releases

Small Business Opportunities – Press Release

Small Business Opportunities Magazine Ranks Coffee News® as One of 75 Franchises to Consider Now Coffee News® has recently been selected as one of 75 franchises to consider now by Small Business Opportunities Magazine.  “We are delighted that we continue to receive high rankings in the franchise industry!” said [your name here], publisher of Coffee News®.   The article emphasizes the fact that many entrepreneurs find franchising to be a great way to start their own business and states that the 75 listed franchises can be launched now with minimal experience. Coffee News® is published in fourteen countries and has nearly 900 franchises in operation.  Coffee News® provides a service to restaurants, coffee shops, and many areas where people have… Read the rest

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Search Engine Optimization

Let SEO Help You Attract Visitors To Your Site

SEO work is a way to bring your website above your competition. In order to benefit from it, you will need to learn the basics of using SEO. In this article, you will learn the difference between effective and defective SEO strategies. To achieve the best ranking in search engine results, incorporate a number of keywords related to your market niche in the meta tags for your website. Many experts have also recommended including misspellings of the keywords in the meta tags if someone happens to spell it wrong. The keywords in your metatags will help search engines match your website with relevant searches. To demonstrate this, let’s say your site theme is about knives. You could include a… Read the rest

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Search Engine Optimization

Tips For Successful Search Engine Optimization

Search engine optimization utilizes keywords to get you at the top of the list for those using search tools. A business can make itself more visible to its target market by including the most popular keywords and phrases with its website. Search engine optimization can be a very arcane process, but this article will help make the procedure a little more clear. Be sure that your site is properly coded when you try to utilize SEO on your website to grow traffic. Messy coding makes it difficult for spiders to index your site. A site that relies heavily on Flash without providing text descriptions will be ignored by the search engines. Search engine results can be improved in a number … Read the rest

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Garner Articles

Two Summer Events in Garner to Mark on Your Calendar Now

Garner has lots to do during the summer months, but two of my family’s favorites include the Music Off Main concert series and the Garner Parks & Rec Outdoor movie series. Both events give us the opportunities to spend time outdoors and allows for inexpensive entertainment practically in our back yard. The Music Off Man series is in its sixth year and runs monthly from May to Sept. The venue used to be on Main St Garner, but it has been moved to the back Lawn of the Garner Performing Arts Center (125 Avery Street) to give more space and accommodate parking. Entertainment starts at 6pm and runs to 9pm and bands vary from beach music to reggae, to classic… Read the rest

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Marketing Services

Does Anybody Know About Your Business?

We work hard to promote our businesses. There’s our signage. And our truck or car with a logo on the door, or maybe “wrapping” the entire vehicle. There’s our business cards, which we hand out regularly. There’s that brochure we put together back in the day. And our website! Oh, our website! We worked hard to get something out onto the internet… No one notices. Yes, that’s right, no one is noticing. Put out an ad, and who calls you? Your mother, your cousin, your best friend: “Saw your ad!” Well that’s just great; they’re already customers! What about the people who are NOT doing business with you – but who ought to be? They’re not noticing! And it’s not… Read the rest

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Search Engine Optimization

Optimize Your Website And Get More Traffic

As the Internet grows, so does the competition for websites. If you follow the steps from this article, you will be ahead of your competitors in terms of being noticed by potential site visitors. Having great content is useless if no one reads it. Continue on for some great SEO tips that will elevate the presence of your site. Try several different keywords when you are trying to rank higher in search engines. Sites that have effective meta tags will show up in more searches for a higher variety of keywords. As an example, if your website is about drinking glasses, be sure your metatag includes “drinking,” “glasses,” “drinking glasses,” etc. There are a multitude of ways you can optimize … Read the rest

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Optimize Your Website And Get The Results You Want

Search engine optimization is a great way to pull your website heads above the rest. In order to succeed with this, you must understand the tricks behind it. Read this article to get the best results from your efforts. Your domain name should contain a keyword related to your content. You want people to be able to find your site easily. Keep in mind that not all people that come to your site go there due to advertisements, some people are there due to the products in your website. To increase your ranking on search engines, be sure to include a large number of keywords in the “metatag” section of your site. The keywords in your metatags… Read the rest

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Put Your Site On Top With These SEO Tips

Search engine optimization, although confusing, is essential for being profitable on the internet. With appropriate tools and information, you have the ability to implement SEO so that your website attracts more visitors and gets better rank in search results. Visitors need to visit and remain on your site in order for the PageRank algorithm to boost your ranking. You can find out how much time someone spends on your site with services such as Quantcast scores. impacts its PageRank. Forums and message boards are great ways to keep visitors engaged with your site for long periods of time. Search engines are more likely to correctly grasp the content in your website if you use descriptive title tags appropriately. Use… Read the rest

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Garner Articles

12 Things to do in 12 Months in Garner

Everyone that lives in Garner has a favorite event from the year that they just wouldn’t miss. For my family we love the movies on the Lawn at Lake Benson and the annual Christmas parade. We’ve started more than one tradition surrounding events in our water tower town. I wanted to share 12 ideas you could do in 12 months with your family or friends to get to know our community better. Jan – Shopping the sales at White Oak Shopping Center Feb – Breakfast at Angie’s Restaurant Mar – Seeing a play at the Garner Performing Arts Center Apr – Friday Family Flicks and Camping at Lake Benson Park May – Strawberry picking at Porters June – Music Off… Read the rest

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Search Engine Optimization

Tips For Successful DIY Search Engine Optimization

There are so many websites nowadays, you may feel lost in the masses. You can stand out of the crowd with the tips found in this article. Having great content is useless if no one is going to see it. The following article will give your site a big boost in visitors. Create a text file and name it “robots”, add info on your pages – check our link just below for the KIND of information you should put in there, and then file it in your root directory.  This method hides certain files from being accessed on your website.  Learn more about robots.txt and how it affects your website. TIP! You rarely get image links with sites that are… Read the rest

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