Web Design

Thought I would take a bit of time out of my normal postings to provide an article about web hosting for small business websites. For a website to function and work for the small business it has to be properly designed, optimized, and promoted but it also needs to UP! …

As I reported in an earlier post, Google have rolled out tags and Boost, enabling small businesses to secure a presence in local search provided they pay monthly advertising fees. Yet, rightly or wrongly, everyone agrees that organic search results are still the best place to appear. Besides, ranking well …

This is something I have been wanting to comment on for a while. I really like WordPress- its ease of setup, cool widgets, tons of templates available, and the amazing amount of SEO components you can employ with it, make it a no brainer for small business. If you are …

With more and more consumers searching online, it is critical for small business to get online themselves. With the current state of the economy, it is more important than ever to work on building your online presence. Right now I am seeing more business “giving up” being online and trying …

Today I decided to take a break – we have a guest author, Ben Johnson of Logoinn. They provide custom logo design services and are based in the UK.  As a side note, if anyone else is interested in being a guest blogger here at LocalBizBits, just let me know. …

I have always been a big supporter/advocate for adding some general, related content on the small business web site. Why?…To provide keyword rich content, create another avenue into the web site and finally, to simply provide a resource to the visitor.  I definitely will work with someone who seems to …

I often hear local advertisers talk about what advertising worked and what didn’t… they almost always consider the medium and rarely the message. Then I wonder… “So… 100 people typed in the category of your business, your town,and visited your site… then decided */not/* to do business with you… why …

Do a local search on Google… how about ‘house painter Augusta Ga’, now, notice how none of the results are actually House Painters in Augusta Ga. (except for the Google Local results).  Ever wonder why that happens?  Does Google have something against house painters or small businesses… not at all. …

Chris Linnett has a nice post at Search Engine Land, The Future Of Rich Media On Local Sites. In this article, he goes over the pros/cons of adding various types of media on local business sites. “Yet despite the popularity of rich media elsewhere on the Internet, the use of …

When you have a website, you want to build and optimize it to rank as well as it can in the major search engines. Everyone wants to be on the first page. Whether is it global or local search, there are many techniques a webmaster can employee to accomplish this. …