According to new research from comScore, on the State of Local Business Search, search on mobile phones is growing. The study found that 22% of U.S. mobile phone users searched on their phone in January 2011. That’s an 8% increase from the 16% who reported searching via mobile in January 2010. Not only are more [...]
Here are my top 6 reasons I may hate your website: Slow Load Times – If your site takes more than 4 seconds to load, then chances are I’m not waiting around. Google hates slow page load times too and is starting to incorporate it into their ranking algorithm. Splash / Intro pages – These [...]
Warning: Don’t Lose Sales Because Your Web Design Sucks Did you try and save a few bucks and design your own site? Or worse, have your out of work brother in-law design it? Don’t do that. Your business reputation will suffer. You see, just because you can afford to buy the tools, doesn’t mean the [...]
In my previous post, I talked about the importance of having an effective landing page. Now I’m going to give you a few practical guidelines. Step 1: Define Success In order to accomplish your goals, you have to know what they are. Is this an eCommerce website focused on transactions? Is the purpose to generate [...]
Our friends at e-Nor.com just published a great guide for mobile usability. It’s well worth the read if you’re looking to improve your the mobile usability aspect of your digital marketing. Read the full article. Tweet
I love this video from the NFL combine. Rich Eisen, the 40-something ESPN guy in the suit, probably thinks he still runs fast. Then you see Tim Tebow blow him away. Then, “here comes Jacoby Ford”. It’s a hilarious video but it also shows you how everything is relative. From a business perspective, no matter [...]
Good, clean web design is one of the most important factors for site usability. Every design aspect of your website should be understandable and clear to the visitor. Our attention spans are extremely sort when we’re searching and a good design doesn’t require visitors to think too much about navigating a site. Here are a [...]
With a new web design, you can improve your search engine rankings drastically or you can lose all of it. The biggest risk is losing the value of your inbound links which usually point to specific pages. To make sure this doesn’t happen, be sure to include an effective SEO (Search Engine Optimization) design plan [...]
We’re spending a lot more time these days digging deeper into web analytics with clients. Visitors and Pageviews are great to look at, but the real effort should be focused on conversions. A “conversion” is a user-defined event. It can be anything you want it to be. Some common conversion events are: Contact form submission [...]
WSI Webworks announces the launch of a new website for Kifco®, a major manufacturer of traveling irrigation systems. Kifco® Water-Reels™ are uniquely designed to irrigate large areas–such as crops, sports fields, and parks–unattended and without the expense and safety hazards of in-ground sprinkler systems. The new website will be a helpful resource for Kifco® customers [...]