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Top 5 Reasons People Leave Your Website
There are a multitude of reasons people may leave your website, whether it be the speed, content availability, design usability, or lack of desired results. While all websites are different, there are a few constant factors to account for in order to please your users. 1: Slow Page Load This is the number one reason users abandon your website. An average user spends about three seconds waiting for a page to load before becoming hasty and abandoning your site. Besides only…
Categories: Uncategorized | Posted: 09/15/2013
Brand Posting on Facebook
You risk hurting your business by not taking advantage of social media. Not only are you missing an opportunity to connect with the people who spend a significant amount of their free time browsing Facebook, Twitter, or a number of other social outfits (which is a majority of them), but you are also jeopardizing SEO efforts with your website. Even if you don’t realize it, social factors are becoming more and more tied into your Google, Bing, and Yahoo rankings, and by…
Categories: Social Media | Posted: 09/03/2013
How to Choose a Domain Name
Clients often ask us “What name should I use for my website?” It sounds like an easy question, but there are actually a number of variables to consider before you rush to secure your new domain name with a re-seller. Here are five considerations to take into account when choosing your own URL: 1. Length of the URL Often, choosing a short name for your URL (website address) is the best way to go, especially if the name is directly linked to who…
Categories: Internet Marketing | Posted: 08/16/2013
Why a "Super-phonebook" SEO Program may not be your Best Investment
If you are looking to join the millions of others committing money to online marketing, you probably have given thought to the large “Super-phonebook” companies that claim to be the best choice for your online marketing needs. Before you start spending money or make a commitment, there is a lot of information—and some misinformation—of which you should be mindful. There is no shortage of horror stories floating out there in cyberspace about why…
Categories: Superp-phonebook | Posted: 08/09/2013
Sharp client recently featured on the popular tech blog, “Gizmodo”
Have you ever bought a new pair of bright, white tennis shoes, only to have them look old and dirty after an ill-placed step through a puddle? Or perhaps you’ve worn a crisp, new shirt at a barbeque and quickly realized that shirt wouldn’t look new for long. Maybe you’ve simply had a beverage accidentally knocked over, right near your smartphone that happens to be lying beside it on the table. Whatever the careless moment or unfortunate incident, a small…
Categories: Social Media | Posted: 07/02/2013
Now Trending: Social Media
American culture has very much been influenced in the 2000’s by the impact that the internet has made on society. Perhaps the most exemplary of our cultural fascination with the internet is the magnitude of the growing trend toward social media. Whether we like it or not, mastering the social media ‘game’ as businesspeople seems like a skill we must acquire to reach the younger generations. But to what extent is the social media experiment exclusive to the “Generation-y’ers;…
Categories: Social Media | Posted: 04/16/2013
Long Live the Hardware - Consumer Electronics Show
The CES, or the International Consumer Electronics Show, for those of us who aren’t in the technology awards circuit, commenced Monday, thus handing out its yearly prize to Samsung. Samsung won out in the 2013 edition of the CES’ convention over viable foe, Sony. The North Korean tech wizard claimed this year’s title through an array of products, led by its patented Galaxy S3 system, powered by Google’s Android OS. Many in the tech device know-how…
Categories: Statistics | Posted: 01/15/2013
Yahoo! chronicles another year of "searching"
Each December Yahoo! compiles and organizes its “most searched” words of the year. These are usually representative of a year’s worth of trends, viral web sensations, and popular cultural anomalies. It can also imply what people are thinking about, talking about, and concerned about. We can be encouraged that the top two searches for this year were NOT celebrities! With that said, and not counting their “overall” list, Yahoo! felt obligated to…
Categories: Internet Marketing | Posted: 12/05/2012
Even Though Bing Surges, Google Still Tops US Searches
Google, the worldwide search engine leader, has some competition. Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, has steadily crept up search engine rankings since it debuted in 2009, and is now in the number two spot for the first time. Google and Bing’s trajectories appear approximately parallel, while the rest of the competition’s rankings continue to dip. According to comScore, Bing and Microsoft’s other websites had a respectable 2.7 billion U.S. search…
Categories: Internet Marketing | Posted: 04/10/2012
Smart Phones vs. the Personal Computer
According to data collected by online search giant Google, more consumers in each of five key global markets now have an Internet-capable mobile device than have a desktop or laptop computer. In the United States, the difference is creeping toward 10% more (76% to 68%), although consumers still report accessing the Internet on multiple types of devices. Still, Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker believes that, “Within the next five years, more users will connect to the…
Categories: Website Design | Posted: 03/08/2012