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$299 Professional Small Business Website

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

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Your site will be more than an online brochure. With contact forms and a blog(optional) it will be an interactive hub for your online marketing.
Rank Higher In Google
Your site will be optimized for search engines so you will be easier to find online when potential customers search for [...]

Customer Testimonials

Sunday, August 28th, 2011

“Charles Sipe of Snowball SEO worked with Dream Dinners on implementation of a new social marketing strategy, providing extensive research and an inventory of relevant keywords, then recommending the best ways to integrate those findings into our web content and meta descriptions. We learned a great deal and are well on our way to experiencing [...]

What are the Major Factors that Influence Search Rankings?

Sunday, August 21st, 2011

The major factors that influences whether your site will rank highly in Google for your desired keywords can be broken down into two categories, on-page factors and off-page factors.
On-Page Factors
On-page factors consist of keyword optimization of the metadata and the content. After you have determined a good keyword to target, you want to include [...]

Champion Arms’ New Site

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

I recently set up a new website for Champion Arms, a shooting range and gun store in Kent, Washington. Their previous site was completely in flash, which typically ranks poorly in Google because Google’s spiders can not see flash.
For example this is what Google shows when you search for “Champion Arms”.

Champion Arms does have a [...]

Great Examples of Typography

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

The fonts you use for your website are an important decision, as they will often reflect your site’s tone and affect its visual impact.

When I was just getting started in design, I asked one of my favorite designers what single thing I could do to improve and expand my capabilities as a designer. His answer: [...]

Integrated jQuery Effects Included

Monday, August 1st, 2011

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Specialized Blog Feed

Monday, August 1st, 2011

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Professional Wordpress Theme

Sunday, July 31st, 2011

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Why Google is the New Yellow Pages for Small Business

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Before Google small businesses often relied on the Yellow Pages to get found by local customers. Today fewer and fewer people pick up the Yellow Pages when they are looking for a small business to solve a problem. Instead, we often turn to Google to find a product or service we are looking for.
Since Google [...]

Twitter is the Ultimate Marketing Research Tool

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

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