About 6 months ago, David Fraser approached Striking Web for help with his website www.heavenforbid.org .   He was searching for a web design and development company that could help with website maintenance and further developing of his existing site.  As I reviewed and learned about his website it became pretty evident that David had a vision for helping to provide instant access to vital information during emergencies. What I liked about his website is that you can securely store all your vital information in one place in an organized manner, making it easy to find in an emergency or if you simply forgot something.  Because of his cause I’ve chosen Heavenforbid.org as the spot light website for this quarter.

A personal quote from David Fraser: Read More

Link building is a way to build backlinks to your website.

Building backlinks is one of the major pieces to the SEO puzzle that will help drive traffic to your website and also help your website rank much higher on the search engines.

But why is it important to build backlinks to your website?

Think of a backlink to your website as a vote.

The more websites that link to you the more votes your website gets.   Google’s algorithm takes into account how many links are coming into a website and a website with many incoming links is viewed as a valuable resource. Read More

In today’s post I want to talk about submitting articles to increase web  traffic to your website.  Not only will you generate traffic to your website you will also, by default, create the following positive results:

1. Well written articles will generate back links to your website
2. Back links will help your Google Ranking

So, what are the steps to creating and submitting an article online? There are many ways to submit an article but let’s start with some basics of Article creation. Read More

I recently had a conversation with a client about what it evolves to increase web traffic to a website.  I was surprised that my client was more concerned about building traffic but had not  thought about  what to do with the traffic that would be generated.

Essentially I explained to my client that it is important to have the following items in place to help build traffic:

1. Keyword research needs to be done on keywords that will be used on the website. The research is important because we need to find out if indeed people are using the keywords that we want to place on the site. It would make no sense to spend a lot of time and money setting up a page with keywords that no one is really searching for. Read More

There are over 100 million searches performed a day and about 20% of these searches are new to the search engines. This is due to the fact that website visitors are learning and getting smarter about how they search for what they want online. The result is that people are searching for local businesses more and more.

Here are two examples that will help convey the importance of optimizing your website with local search keywords. Read More