Once known as "Google Places" now called "Google Place Search" is a major force in local internet searching. About 20% of internet searches are local so Google has gone to great lengths to target local small business advertising. However, less than 10% of local businesses actually have their own Google...
There are many ways to use video to promote your company. What are the best ways of using video that can be produced quickly and produce leads? Read on! Introduction Clip An "Intro to Your Company" video is a brief, 4 minute or less (2 to 3 minutes works best) homepage introduction...
"If I had a child I'd make sure the web address for their name is available before naming them." Personal branding guru William Arruda at NYU speaking event. William Arruda might be carrying it to an extreme, but many online marketers recommend purchasing a URL before registering a company. Since most of us are committed to some forms of...
Many times we here at Bower Web Solutions are called upon to create three dimensional effect for our clients' web and graphics projects. While we can create such graphics using dedicated 3D programs, these types of images take time to create and render. This video tutorial shows a quick, down and dirty...
Our web design clients commonly ask, "How can your web design and development company help improve the search engine results for my web site?". People want to get the best search engine results possible for their web site by hiring us to perform Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so when potential...
Problems Sending E-mail to AOL Email addresses Question: I am having problems sending e-mail to AOL users. My e-mail is getting returned with the following subject: "Returned mail: see transcript for details" or "Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours" Answer: EXPLANATION: The IP address you are sending from has been blocked...
Content Management Systems (CMSs for short) allow site owners to edit the content of their websites. Some CMS packages given more control over others. The extent of how much control one has in editing a CMS based site is, for the most part, based on the core functionality of the...
Here are a few items to consider when looking for a company to host your web site. Watch out for web hosting companies claiming unlimited bandwidth. There is a lot of fine print in their contracts and many really are not unlimited and in fact have extremely high fees if you go over...
Just a heads up for everyone regarding the latest in Visa fraud. Royal Bank received this communication about the newest scam. This is happening in the Midwest right now and moving. This one is pretty slick since they provide YOU with all the information, except the one piece they want.. Note, the...
1). Questionable Search Engine Optimization Tactics If you "participate in linking schemes" (i.e. buying/selling links on your site), use "doorway pages" (pages with no valid content and serve no real purpose other than to load up your site with keywords), or create "hidden text" on a site (i.e. white text on...
