What Will You Do When Google Ends Call History and Profile Chat?

Google’s recent decision to discontinue call history and profile chat features has significant implications for businesses that relied on these tools to engage with customers. Effective July 31, 2024, these features will no longer be available, leaving businesses searching for alternative ways to maintain and enhance customer interactions. Understanding the impact of this change and exploring new avenues for communication is essential for businesses to continue providing excellent customer service. Continue reading »

SEO is an important aspect of web design because you want your site to rank in search. Many websites get so focused on creating a website for robots that they forget the real intent of SEO is for humans. Google’s mission is to maximize access to information and to help people find the information they want. Not every human user reads a screen. Assistive technology, such as a screen reader or closed captioning, can help every user access your website. Let’s discuss SEO and ADA compliance. Continue reading »

Mobile-First Guidelines Echo SEO Best Practices

Google attempts to be transparent about their business practices outside the secret sauce of their actual search engine algorithm. They are clear that their goal is not to make your business more money, but to provide a better user experience to their consumers.

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Bay Area marketing agencies know how to build an online presence. The first step to great digital marketing is choosing a website content management system.

Good SEO and Web Design Mean Little if Your Website Doesn’t Load Fast

You don’t need a study to tell you that consumers will abandon a website and move on to another if the pages don’t load fast, but plenty of studies confirm this. In your own experience you’ve probably come across website content that just didn’t load fast enough and you quickly navigated away before seeing what the site had to offer. No matter what your digital marketing goals a good quality, fast and easy to navigate website should be at the core. Continue reading »

One aspect that affects SEO is how fast a page loads. Google cares about page speed because they want users to get the information they are looking for as quickly as possible. How does page speed affect SEO and how can you improve it.

In the first full month since upgrading their web design JMT Beauty has seen their biggest month of online sales EVER. SEO, social media marketing, and thoughtful web design contributed to their big improvements in online ecommerce cart website sales.

A&B Produce, a major San Francisco Bay Area food supplier and wholesaler, provides fresh, high-quality fruits, vegetables, and more to commercial and retail restaurants.  With over 40 years of experience in the industry, the company did not want to continue with a website that underperformed.  As a result, A&B Produce partnered with KO Websites, Inc., to update its website design with a fresh look and character in line with the products it delivers and the service it provides.  Continue reading »

Bay Area Online Marketing Tips

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No matter what field you are in, chances are you’ve come across the term ‘content marketing’ and want to learn more about the buzzword that has taken over SEO and Digital Marketing. Continue reading »

How Do I Write a Better Blog?

Start by adding value to your blog.  

You can add value to your blog by adding links and pictures.  Links add a lot of value to your blog and are necessary to direct that blog traffic to other places that you really want them to go and or add more value to the blog by providing access to more information.  Like your websites and or other social sites.  Also use links to give any source you may have used for your blog credit.  Most people or companies don’t mind you using their information as long as you give them credit.  Another good way to add value to your blog is posting photos.  Pictures can make your blog a lot more fun, interesting, and attractive.

Be search engine friendly.

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