Have you reviewed your Google Analytics recently? Noticed your bounce rate sky-rocketing? It’s possible that your customers are leaving because your website is turning them away. Here are seven things that you want to avoid on your homepage, to keep customers from leaving before they read your content. 1. Outdated Design This one’s a no-brainer....Read More
When smartphones were just coming out (remember the Blackberry?), webmasters started thinking about optimizing their websites for mobile devices. At first, the trend was to create a separate website just for mobile devices. Typically, this separate website would be published at a subdomain – http://m.yourwebsite.com – and often times users would have the ability to...Read More
If you have a website that hasn’t yet been optimized for mobile, you have a big decision to make, and not doing anything is not an option. The choice becomes – do I retrofit my website for responsive design? Or should I create an entirely new website design that incorporates responsive design from the get-go?...Read More
On April 21st, we saw perhaps the largest update yet to Google’s Search Algorithm: Mobile-Friendliness is now being considered when Google returns search results on mobile devices. Has Google’s recent algorithm change made a real impact on business owners and their websites? 4 months later, here are some of the results of this large algorithm...Read More
On a warm Spring day 10 years ago, a 24-year old recently unemployed college graduate signed a few papers, wrote a check to the Secretary of State, and incorporated a little Limited Liability Company known as Iceberg Hosting. The ambition was a love of website design and technology, and a desire to take a step...Read More
On April 21, 2015, a change is coming to Google’s search algorithm that has the potential to change how your website is found online. Google will now use mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. This means that if your website is not mobile-friendly, it will lose ranking on mobile searches. On February 26, 2015, Google unveiled in...Read More
Every business owner knows that having a website today is a critical, essential marketing piece. And most businesses have invested some time and money into creating a website for their company. However, there are several misconceptions business owners have about their websites. We’ve narrowed them down to the five most common ones here: I will...Read More
Any retail business owner who doesn’t already have an e-commerce website has probably asked themselves this question a few times. Should I add e-commerce onto my retail business website? With the way that today’s generation of shoppers has grown from store front shopping to online shopping the question should really be- Why haven’t you added...Read More
It’s Thanksgiving evening at the North Pole. Santa and Mrs. Claus are relaxing in front of their large screen TV, waiting for the Seahawks to take on the 49ers. A commercial starts, featuring a family of four sitting in front of the Christmas Tree, each wearing the most adorable pair of reindeer slippers imaginable. Mrs. Claus exclaims...Read More
It’s almost 2015. Technology has been a game changer for many small businesses. By now, most professional website developers are including smartphone compatibility and responsive design in their list of website development services. Businesses are investing in app development – and advertisers are purchasing in-app screen time. But perhaps the biggest indication of the changing...Read More
