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12 Ways To Keep People on Your Site Longer

Posted by Mark Thompson in Design/Development | October 10, 2008 | Comments (0)
  1. Create a Visually Pleasing Design: Capture your audience by having a professional looking design. Use a color scheme that flows naturally and is not harsh on the eyes. Use appealing icons, buttons, calls to actions, and graphics


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Your Website SEO Checkup: Part 3 of 8 – Website Usability

Posted by Mark Thompson in Design/Development,SEO | June 26, 2008 | Comments (1)

When we talk about website usability we talk about the overall experience you give the user. That includes the overall design, navigation, content layout, calls to actions, accessibility and functionality of your site. I want to give you some tips…
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Your Website SEO Checkup: Part 1 of 8 – Search Engine Friendly Site Structure

Posted by Mark Thompson in Design/Development,SEO | June 24, 2008 | Comments (1)

Probably the most important part of Search Engine Optimization is making sure that your website is search engine friendly. When I say search engine friendly, I mean that when search engines “crawl” your site, they are able to read all…
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Your Website SEO Checkup: 8 Part Series

Posted by Mark Thompson in Design/Development,SEO | June 24, 2008 | Comments (0)

Part 1: Search Engine Friendly Site Structure

  • NoNo’s for Search Engines
  • Using a Text Navigation
  • Creating Static Pages
  • Descriptive URL’s
  • Internal Linking Structure

Part 2: Keyword Research

  • Initial Keyword


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The Pros and Cons of 1st and 3rd Party Cookies

Posted by Mark Thompson in Analytics,Design/Development | June 23, 2008 | Comments (0)

062308 1801 theprosandc1 The Pros and Cons of 1st and 3rd Party Cookies

A Cookie is a pretty easy concept to understand. It is simply a tracking code that is stored on the user’s computer for a determined amount of time to track their ID session, navigation, and preferences. Where is can…
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Web Developers: Educate Yourself with SEO Knowledge

Posted by Mark Thompson in Design/Development,SEO | June 11, 2008 | Comments (0)

I am writing this post in regards to a recent article I read on HubSpot.

Mike Volpe’s lists 7 reasons why marketing can’t trust the Webmaster with SEO.…
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Optimizing Your Contact Form to be a Lead Generating Machine

Posted by Mark Thompson in Design/Development,SEO | June 6, 2008 | Comments (3)

There is nothing worse than leading your potential customer through a nicely designed sales funnel on your website and having them hit a huge road block when they get to the contact form. I am talking about those forms that
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The Developer, The SEO Specialist: How to Play Nice

Posted by Mark Thompson in Design/Development,SEO | June 4, 2008 | Comments (2)

play nice The Developer, The SEO Specialist: How to Play Nice

The SEO Specialist and Web Developer relationship is very important. If the communication between the two is lax, the client is the one who suffers. I have been developing websites for the past six years, and until recently I…
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Optimal Screen Resolution for Web Design

Posted by Mark Thompson in Design/Development | May 30, 2008 | Comments (6)

UPDATE:  2010 Screen Resolution Statistics

Screen resolutions have changed a lot over the past 8 years. Computer monitors have migrated to offer users  much smaller resolution choices. The days of 640 x 480 have long since past.

This brings up…
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