We’re doing the SEO for a local Central Oregon business. We built them a custom WordPress site with an integrated blog. In their analytics reporting last month, I noticed a substantial traffic drop from the month prior so I looked further to see if there were any issues I could address. I found their domain’s ISP had been blacklisted by two DNSBLs. Here’s what happened and why you want to avoid it from happening to you.

We're often asked: How long until I see my blog in search results? The speed in which your blog post gets picked up and where it is placed in search, essentially depends on the following three things.

A client asked me the other day, what's the difference between posts and pages on my WordPress website. I thought I'd write out my response to her, since odds are a few others have same question. So, what's the difference between posts and pages? They're kind of like apples to oranges.

I'm glad for Matt Cutts taking a leave from Google for awhile. I think sometimes it's just "time" to unplug. We all need time: to take technology detoxes, to take breaks from our work and from the daily grind, to see our family, and to reconnect with our significant others and "turn off" the daily noise.

We all know we have to spend time on social media to get traction, gain followers, improve ranking, and in turn, have more success online. With all the social media changes, when setting up or optimizing your social profiles, it's hard to know what your dimensions are across each profile. In order to achieve a well branded and consistent social media strategy, it's important to get the nuts and bolts right from the start.

If your brand is like most, it has probably spent time on Facebook – building fans, sponsoring posts, and trying ads – all in an attempt to get traffic from the massive Facebook community. As a business owner or brand manager, you may be beyond frustrated with the changes Facebook has made that affect the way you interact with and reach your fans.

Are you finally getting to your new website and still just thinking about SEO but not completely sold? Let’s discuss why you need SEO now more than ever and why search engine optimization needs to be fundamental to your 2014-2015 marketing strategy.

As the internet has drastically altered the way in which information is shared, digital marketing incorporates the use of all digital devices, such as desktops, laptops, mobile devices, and tablets to engage with technology mediums such we websites, email, web apps and social media. Digital marketing uses several channels to create strategies that are fully integrated (what's an integrated marketing campaign?) to support and leverage the strengths of these channels.

We see it all the time folks, unfortunately all too often. You either have an old website that was built in the time of html that you can’t edit yourself, you have no idea where it’s hosted and you’ve long lost the contact of the guy or gal who developed it for you, or you’ve recently hired someone to do it for you, a nice small shop or one-person provider, and it looks good enough, but you still can’t edit it or it’s not performing well in search.

Sure, social media is evolving. Some say it’s dying while others still own it. It’s natural for technology to change, as some channels become more in vogue while others fade out of existence. The one hard fast truth though, is that the web isn’t going anywhere. And social media, not as a term many are still trying to grasp, but as a media, isn’t a fad. Especially looking at Facebook’s recent numbers cited at over 500 million. Whether you love it or hate it, whether you enjoy sharing with the world some of those details you maybe shouldn’t, you can’t deny its power and reach.

The quicker you do what you need to, the sooner you can get on with it and do what you enjoy doing. Some call this “eating that frog” or doing the hardest ...

Many times, our clients ask, “Are we too small for you guys?” Often followed by … How much does web design cost? As a Bend OR web design agency, we’ve been around, a long time. We’re quick, nimble and competitive. We’re in-house. (This means we’re integrated. It also means and you don’t signup to work […]