If you own a restaurant and you want to have a successful website there are some “musts” SEO Aware recommends and also includes in our clients’ websites. Our suggestions: You need your dinner and lunch menus on your site and that they be completely readable. They should also mimic your current menus so people can easily find their favorite dish. A printable take-out menu - By offering a printable...

The yellow pages phone directories magically arrived in my neighborhood. I looked at the book sitting in my drive way, picked it up, and immediately tossed it in my recycling bin! That got wondering how many other people immediately throw out their yellow pages phone directory. So, I decided I would investigate this on the day before trash pickup. Here’s what I found with 10 of my neighbors: 8 out of 10...

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If you are small to medium sized business there are somethings you need to really think about when you are thinking about a budget for a new Web site. I have had many discussions with my Web designer and she has pointed out a lot of great points that I would like to share. She and I both get calls from people that say they want something really cheap and believe me, I understand, but if you look at the big...

UPDATE: We recommend Wordpress…unlimited Website options, but if you need help with Website Tonight please continue reading. I get a tremendous amount of traffic from people researching GoDaddy’s Website Tonight. Some are looking for reviews, but most are looking for ways to customize or change something on their site. So I went through my stats and copied about 100 questions. Many are the same and I...

UPDATE: We recommend Wordpress…unlimited Website options, but if you need help with Website Tonight please continue reading. Well, anyone that knows me knows I like to save money. Louis Vuitton purses and laptop cases are the exception . Anyway, I believe that no matter how much money you have saving money should be a priority. When I first started out I did not want to spend much money on anything....

I keep seeing the same situation over and over, super intelligent people have a great idea and create a Web site, blog or interactive Web solution. Often the ideas are fantastic, but Web users come across the site and look around a bit and don’t get it. Why? Because there is no clarity. If you have an idea and you create a Web site, an interactive site, or whatever else, please do not design the site focusing...

The Trust Factors SEO Aware believes you should be focused on creating trust with potential, and current, clients. Web users look at a Web site and in about 3-5 seconds determine if they want to stay or leave. The appearance of your Web site is the 1st Trust Factor. A professional and/or visually appealing Web site can begin to create trust. I am sure you go to sites that are not as modern or as professional...

Website Tonight has an awesome new advanced editing feature- you can edit the CSS and pretty much customize everything in the world! This is awesome. If you are looking for an affordable web site with many fantastic features check out www.GoDaddy.com Some great features of Website Tonight include: CSS templates 16 page layouts – you can add more now with CSS An easy to use content management system Abilty...

I think it is becoming very clear that businesses now have many options to choose from when investing in a web site. I have discussed many of these options on this blog: GoDaddy’s Website Tonight- Templates that are completely adaptable and easy for businesses to create and very easy to maintain. (previous articles- 1, 2, 3, 4) Designersi.com- a great choice for ecommerce web sites and web sites that...

To start, let me say that this post does not include every web designer or web design company. Background I work with a lot of web design companies and I work as a consultant for many businesses. As a consultant I am often working with web design companies on an assortment of different things. Unfortunately, in the past year I have seen many cases of “Web Design Blackmail”. I don’t know what...

Well, I have some ideas. A few days back I wrote “Looking for the PERFECT Color Scheme For Your Web Site, Company Colors or Blog???“. I thought it would be a little thing I added and no big deal…no one would probably notice. Well, 184 page views and about 50 emails later I realized that many of my readers are interested in design ideas, so here is another post on the subject Where to Look? You...

Hello, Sarasota. This blog brings me mostly national clients, but I wanted to talk to my local area because there are many in this area that truly do not understand how important a web site, a blog and search engine optimization (SEO) is for their business. I am going to tell you and I hope you will keep an open mind. A Web Site I am hoping that if you read this you understand how important it is to have a web...

Use Kuler by Adobe. It is a great tool. “Watermelon” is going to be my new color scheme for business cards and other materials. It is a great resource for anyone that is looking for a massive range of colors!  Check it out- Kuler by Adobe Melissa- SEOAware.com (going back to work….)

The article– How Using a Templated Website Hurts your Business. I think this is completely wrong! Wrong, wrong, wrong! Why? All my businesses use template web sites and I have had great success! Now, there are some templates that just suck- there really is no other way to say it. They are terrible and they look terrible, BUT there are some template based web sites out there that are really great! www.GoDaddy.com...

PDFs and Word Documents are used all the time, but there are some things you can do to that will be beneficial to your business and your web site. When you are naming the PDF or Word document use keywords when naming the file. Do not keyword stuff.  Scan through the words in the document and determine what you would like to show up for. Create a proper title and try to fit keywords in there. Create links...

I have said it before and I feel I should say it again. Web visitors do not want to work to find the info they are looking for. They don’t want to have to think either. They want the info right infront of them. So, I suggest that you make it as easy as possible for them. Going to a web site and finding information should almost be effortless. You want people to go and see the info they need right away, Web...

Internet Duct Tape- Great info on how to configure your wordpress theme. Tech & Design Clazh- Themes Weblog Tools Collection- A TON of themes…I love this site. Lorelle on Wordpress- tips and “How to…” Theme Porter- More Themes! WP Themes For Free- And More Themes…. Moving from Blogger to WordPress: Best Practices-by Jotsheet Wordpress Tutorials By SiteGround- I think this...