As the Internet continues to advance, customers are now demanding and requesting more than just content on a website. Online visitors appreciate the ability to interact and to complete transactions during their online experience.
Businesses such as beauty shops and dentistry offices are looking for ways to better assist their clients. Most of them are now equipping their websites with online scheduling systems – also known as online calendars. Online calendars are designed to eliminate phone calls and scheduling confusion. They are built to be simple and easy to use.
A business can make changes to their schedule by updating their availability. This proves to be very efficient and productive for both the service provider and customer. With an online scheduling system, each service provider is given the opportunity to customize their work hours, availability, type of appointments and appointment duration. Everything is normally provided to easily manage efficiency within a calendar.
Online calendar widgets can easily be added to both blogs and websites. It is a perfect tool to provide visibility to users in their marketplace.
Advantages of using an online calendar:
• Easy to set-up
• Saves time
• Portability
• Improve inquiry-to-booking conversion rates
• Accessibility
• Easy to link
About CODANK Charlotte Web Design
CODANK is a top rated Charlotte Web Design, Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization firm located in Charlotte, NC. We are dedicated to providing the highest quality, cost effective custom software development services, delivering a broad range of business consulting and outsourcing services. We specialize in web design and development, branding and identity, internet marketing, and content management systems.
For more information, visit us at www.codank.com
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
New Post: Message Boards
A trend that has evolved and caught interest over the years from online visitors is message boards. Websites that create message board areas can be quite powerful if used in the correct way. These areas often attract traffic, bringing visitors in purely for the conversation.
A message board – also known as an internet forum or bulletin board system (BBS) – is an online discussion site. Within the message board is a forum which consists of a tree like directory containing topics (also known as threads). Inside the threads are posts made by registered and non-registered board members. Forums are normally organized, driven and updated by a group identified as members, and governed by a moderator.
Message boards often consist of members who share social bonds or common interest. Topics and discussions are normally created from these interests.
Examples of Online Message Board Sites
• Yahoo
• AOL
• Ancestry.com
• iVillage.com
Over time, maintaining a message board can build up hundreds of pages with many thousands of keywords used by members – which is good when trying to build a site’s SEO ranking.
Message board systems are cheap and often free. They are easy to set up and are great ways to increase a website’s content.
About CODANK Charlotte Web Design
CODANK is a top rated Charlotte Web Design, Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization firm located in Charlotte, NC. We are dedicated to providing the highest quality, cost effective custom software development services, delivering a broad range of business consulting and outsourcing services. We specialize in web design and development, branding and identity, internet marketing, and content management systems.
For more information, visit us at www.codank.com
A message board – also known as an internet forum or bulletin board system (BBS) – is an online discussion site. Within the message board is a forum which consists of a tree like directory containing topics (also known as threads). Inside the threads are posts made by registered and non-registered board members. Forums are normally organized, driven and updated by a group identified as members, and governed by a moderator.
Message boards often consist of members who share social bonds or common interest. Topics and discussions are normally created from these interests.
Examples of Online Message Board Sites
• Yahoo
• AOL
• Ancestry.com
• iVillage.com
Over time, maintaining a message board can build up hundreds of pages with many thousands of keywords used by members – which is good when trying to build a site’s SEO ranking.
Message board systems are cheap and often free. They are easy to set up and are great ways to increase a website’s content.
About CODANK Charlotte Web Design
CODANK is a top rated Charlotte Web Design, Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization firm located in Charlotte, NC. We are dedicated to providing the highest quality, cost effective custom software development services, delivering a broad range of business consulting and outsourcing services. We specialize in web design and development, branding and identity, internet marketing, and content management systems.
For more information, visit us at www.codank.com
Friday, September 18, 2009
Where Do People Search?
There are many places where you can search for websites. Literally thousands of sites, in fact, provide the ability to search the Web. But, what you may not realize, however, is that many of those sites search only a small subset of the World Wide Web.
However, the majority of searches are carried out at a small number of search sites. How do the most popular search sites rank? That depends solely on how you measure popularity:
• Entire number of site guest
• Percentage of site visitors (audience reach)
• Total number of searches conducted on a site
• Total number of hours visitors spend searching at the site
Each individual measurement provides a slightly different ranking. Even though all of them provide a similar picture with the same sites generally appearing on the list, some are in to some extent different positions.
Below is a list of the world’s most popular search sites, based on one month of searches during August of 2007 (approximately 8 billion searches) according to a Nielson/NetRatings study. These statistics are for U.S. Internet users:
• Google.com – 53.6%
• Yahoo.com – 19.9%
• MSN.com – 12.9%
• AOL.com – 5.6%
• Ask.com – 1.7%
• My Web Search – 0.9%
• BellSouth Search – 0.5%
• Comcast Search – 0.4%
• My Way – 0.4%
• SBC Yellow Pages Search – 0.4%
Please remember that this is a list of search sites, not search systems. In some cases, the sites own their own systems. Google supplies its own search results, however AOL does not. My Web Search is a metasearch engine receiving results from Google, Yahoo, and Ask.com.
About CODANK Charlotte Web Design
CODANK is a top rated Charlotte Web Design, Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization firm located in Charlotte, NC. We are dedicated to providing the highest quality, cost effective custom software development services, delivering a broad range of business consulting and outsourcing services. We specialize in web design and development, branding and identity, internet marketing, and content management systems.
For more information, visit us at www.codank.com
However, the majority of searches are carried out at a small number of search sites. How do the most popular search sites rank? That depends solely on how you measure popularity:
• Entire number of site guest
• Percentage of site visitors (audience reach)
• Total number of searches conducted on a site
• Total number of hours visitors spend searching at the site
Each individual measurement provides a slightly different ranking. Even though all of them provide a similar picture with the same sites generally appearing on the list, some are in to some extent different positions.
Below is a list of the world’s most popular search sites, based on one month of searches during August of 2007 (approximately 8 billion searches) according to a Nielson/NetRatings study. These statistics are for U.S. Internet users:
• Google.com – 53.6%
• Yahoo.com – 19.9%
• MSN.com – 12.9%
• AOL.com – 5.6%
• Ask.com – 1.7%
• My Web Search – 0.9%
• BellSouth Search – 0.5%
• Comcast Search – 0.4%
• My Way – 0.4%
• SBC Yellow Pages Search – 0.4%
Please remember that this is a list of search sites, not search systems. In some cases, the sites own their own systems. Google supplies its own search results, however AOL does not. My Web Search is a metasearch engine receiving results from Google, Yahoo, and Ask.com.
About CODANK Charlotte Web Design
CODANK is a top rated Charlotte Web Design, Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization firm located in Charlotte, NC. We are dedicated to providing the highest quality, cost effective custom software development services, delivering a broad range of business consulting and outsourcing services. We specialize in web design and development, branding and identity, internet marketing, and content management systems.
For more information, visit us at www.codank.com
Monday, September 14, 2009
Multiple Versions of Your Pages: Mirror Sites
Mirror sites are beginning to be used to provide additional ways to access popular web resources. What many website publishers have learned is that if they mirror individual pages, they can draw in additional traffic to their website.
On the Internet, a mirror site is an exact copy of another Internet site. Mirror sites are most commonly used to provide multiple sources of the same information, and are of particular value as a way of providing reliable access to large downloads. Mirroring is a type of file synchronization.
To give mirrored pages greater importance, website publishers keep their pages short and try to use nothing but text descriptions and keywords. They often use different descriptions and keywords to alter the pages to specific audiences and search engines and then save the pages with unique names. For example, pages may be named in sequence, such as index1.htm, index2.htm, index3.htm, and so on. Once finished, each single page is registered.
Search engines and directories look favorably on any website that tries to manipulate things in this manner and visitors often don’t appreciate being redirected like this. The bottom line here is not to use this trick!
About CODANK Charlotte Web Design
CODANK is a top rated Charlotte Web Design, Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization firm located in Charlotte, NC. We are dedicated to providing the highest quality, cost effective custom software development services, delivering a broad range of business consulting and outsourcing services. We specialize in web design and development, branding and identity, internet marketing, and content management systems.For more information, visit us at www.codank.com
On the Internet, a mirror site is an exact copy of another Internet site. Mirror sites are most commonly used to provide multiple sources of the same information, and are of particular value as a way of providing reliable access to large downloads. Mirroring is a type of file synchronization.
To give mirrored pages greater importance, website publishers keep their pages short and try to use nothing but text descriptions and keywords. They often use different descriptions and keywords to alter the pages to specific audiences and search engines and then save the pages with unique names. For example, pages may be named in sequence, such as index1.htm, index2.htm, index3.htm, and so on. Once finished, each single page is registered.
Search engines and directories look favorably on any website that tries to manipulate things in this manner and visitors often don’t appreciate being redirected like this. The bottom line here is not to use this trick!
About CODANK Charlotte Web Design
CODANK is a top rated Charlotte Web Design, Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization firm located in Charlotte, NC. We are dedicated to providing the highest quality, cost effective custom software development services, delivering a broad range of business consulting and outsourcing services. We specialize in web design and development, branding and identity, internet marketing, and content management systems.For more information, visit us at www.codank.com
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Clean Up Time: Idle Pages
After studying a web site and its contents to see how you can direct traffic to more popular areas, a company should take a hard look at pages that rarely obtain visitors. Initially, the first thought is to delete the unused pages or to simply stop updating them, but this may not be the correct solution. Rather than remove or neglect these pages, a company should make sure that other pages have clear road signs that tell visitors what the neglected pages are all about. Also, consider combining the information on this age with information on another page.
Ways to Gain More Visitors to Unused Pages
· Get your site indexed in search engines and online directories
· Create an opt-in list through email marketing
· Posts articles online (Article Marketing)
· Pay-Per-Click
· Be Patient – continue to apply different methods in order to see results!
Updating your content as often as possible is beneficial for a site and its page’s success. It is not a good idea to just create content for content’s sake. Try to add at least one paragraph of new subject matter per week to the unused page. Doing so will keep your site in the minds of your visitors. Not updating regularly will more than likely make it harder for them to even remember your page name.
Words tend to be viewed differently on a screen than those on a page. If it is possible, you should allow your visitors to interact with the words provided. So, include links and other interactive elements in your text for pages which have fallen short of popularity.
About CODANK Web Design
CODANK is a top rated Charlotte Web Design, Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization firm located in Charlotte, NC. We are dedicated to providing the highest quality, cost effective custom software development services, delivering a broad range of business consulting and outsourcing services. We specialize in web design and development, branding and identity, internet marketing, and content management systems. For more information, visit us at www.codank.com
Ways to Gain More Visitors to Unused Pages
· Get your site indexed in search engines and online directories
· Create an opt-in list through email marketing
· Posts articles online (Article Marketing)
· Pay-Per-Click
· Be Patient – continue to apply different methods in order to see results!
Updating your content as often as possible is beneficial for a site and its page’s success. It is not a good idea to just create content for content’s sake. Try to add at least one paragraph of new subject matter per week to the unused page. Doing so will keep your site in the minds of your visitors. Not updating regularly will more than likely make it harder for them to even remember your page name.
Words tend to be viewed differently on a screen than those on a page. If it is possible, you should allow your visitors to interact with the words provided. So, include links and other interactive elements in your text for pages which have fallen short of popularity.
About CODANK Web Design
CODANK is a top rated Charlotte Web Design, Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization firm located in Charlotte, NC. We are dedicated to providing the highest quality, cost effective custom software development services, delivering a broad range of business consulting and outsourcing services. We specialize in web design and development, branding and identity, internet marketing, and content management systems. For more information, visit us at www.codank.com
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