To maintain its credibility and ensure repeat visits, Google is always trying to improve the results it delivers to users. As part of their work to enhance the customer experience, engineers at Google have been […]

If your website is unappealing in a thumbnail view, people might ignore your site before they even click on a link to it. But with an effective preview of your site, you have an opportunity to increase your […]

Many small business owners still abide by the “set it and forget” philosophy of website design. As a result, their sites can begin to look stale or outdated compared to ones that are newer or frequently […]

At Web.com, we have hundreds of thousands of “Mom and Pop” customers who are running their own businesses. Many of them have local shops, and some of them are running a home-based enterprise on top of their “9 to […]

Website design trends can change quickly, which means that sites that aren’t kept up-to-date can get stale over time in the minds of their users. When people come to a website that appears outdated, they’re less […]

If you monitor search engine traffic to your website, you may notice a distinct change in the coming weeks. Bing™ is set to start delivering results for Yahoo!® searches, and this is going to have an impact on […]

The Internet has been popular for long enough that many people have forgotten one of the key reasons for having a website: saving time and money by helping customers help themselves.

If you can remember the […]

Whenever people build new websites, they hope to find themselves on Google, Yahoo!®, and Bing™ as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, having a site on the Internet does not guarantee search engine placement, even […]

If you do a search on Google, Bing™, or Yahoo!® for a keyword like “tires,” you might end up seeing a local map with local tire sellers listed above the regular search results. This is great news if you’re a tire […]

Sources in the world of search engine optimization (SEO) will tell you that Google makes up to 500 updates to its algorithm every year. The Google algorithm is essentially a complex set of rules that determine […]

Lots of people make the mistake of building a website strictly from a design template. While website templates are a great starting point, they often create subliminal barriers that can reduce a Web designer’s […]

Getting qualified traffic to your website can be more of a challenge than building the website itself. While there are plenty of free and cheap website design templates that can give you a professional online […]

For a small business website owner, one of the challenges of online marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) is that your competitors may also know how to get found on search engines. In fact, they may have […]

Generating sales leads can be easy, but turning them into paying customers has become more complex over the past two decades. Prior to the advent of the World Wide Web, small businesses got most of their sales […]

People who are new to making sales online often miss peak online selling months, because of either a lack of preparation or a failure to understand online seasonality. When a site design project is held up or <a href="http://www.web.com/marketing/searchengineoptimization.aspx&quot; […]

Many small business owners have assumptions about website usability that may not match the actual behavior of their online customers. Anyone who designs a website needs to understand that visitors have a set of […]

You don’t always need to invest in high-end search engine marketing services to get found on Google™, Yahoo!®, and Bing™. In fact, many small businesses only need to follow a few basic steps to get discovered by […]

Google™ recently updated its search engine index—the way it collects and stores data for retrieval—in a big way. Though Google is constantly tweaking its algorithm (i.e., a set of rules about how to deliver […]

What is online reputation management, and when do you need it?

An unhappy customer can be the bane of any size business, but small businesses can sometimes feel a bigger impact from one unsatisfied client. This […]

Anyone who gets a new email address will quickly find out about online scams. Unfortunately, some scam emails are convincing and appear to be legitimate. They may look like official communications from your bank, […]