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Pinterest is all about pinning and sharing visual images to a virtual board – it’s fun, easy and addictive. Have you ever considered ways to promote your website with Pinterest? According to Pinterest expert, McCall Humes, Pinterest is the 13th most popular website in the United States, the 3rd most popular social media network and…
If you’ve done any research on how to get found in the search engines, or you’ve talked to anyone who works in the web development or SEO (search engine optimization) field, you may have seen or heard that Google no longer uses keywords, so you don’t have to use them. For those of us who…
As bloggers it is nice to know an audience is reading and appreciating what we write. Good bloggers write frequently and provide valuable information that is specific to their audience. As authors we know that some of the posts we write are great and other posts will change the world. So, you’ve spent hours overloading…
Social media marketing can be daunting for any business – it takes time and a firm commitment to build a trustworthy online reputation – but if done correctly, social media allows you to market your business and receive valuable and instant feedback from customers. Here are a few basic tips to help you utilize social…
We do a lot of sites. 99% of these sites have handy little contact forms. And if you have a contact form, at some point, you are going to get SEO Spam. What’s SEO Spam? It’s a submission on your contact form or an email sent to you that starts with something like this: Dear…
Whenever we get asked to set up an e-commerce site, we start the process with a lot of different questions. Some of those questions include: Will your products be digital or physical? How many products will you have? Will your products have different variations (such as size, color)? What methods do you want to offer…
One of the things we like to do is attend different WordCamp events to learn more about WordPress, network with other designers and developers, and increase our skills. We recently attended WordCamp Las Vegas, and had a great time. I love Vegas. I love WordPress. What’s not to love? The second to last session on…
I remember a simpler time when the thought of having your website hacked was not even a thought at all. You post stuff on the web, and never think about security. Your password was probably something simple, like your dog’s name. Ah, the good old days. I think a lot about website security these days. My…
Exactly what should be on your homepage is a question we get asked often here at Sumy Designs. The homepage is the virtual front door to your business. It performs around the clock and is the voice of your success. The homepage is the who and the what of your business and it explains why…
At Sumy Designs, we are WordPress developers. When you come to us for a website, you are going to have a WordPress website. WordPress powers over 20% of the web right now. It’s the hottest CMS since sliced bread. (True story.) To that end, we love going to Wordcamps. What’s WordCamp? WordCamps happen all over…
I won’t lie. I’m a huge fan of reader interaction. But just because I personally love that interaction doesn’t mean I would recommend it everyone. For the record, I read blogs that allow comments and those that don’t. We all know that blogging is good for business. But are comments? That is a more tricky question and the…
Every type “professional web design company” into Google? Go ahead, try it. I’ll wait. Done? I just did it. And I got about 148,000,000 results. That’s right, 148 million results. How in the world are you supposed to sort through 148 million results to find a company that you can trust, and that you think will be…
We get a lot of questions about blogging, but probably the most frequently asked question is “How often should I blog?” There is no one answer to this question. Different bloggers have different ambitions; write in different genres and have vastly different ideas about what makes a blog successful. Understanding your content and the commitment it will…
On Monday, I wrote about how to get more traffic to your site. There are many ways to do this, but once you get traffic, how do you know what to do with that? Using Google Analytics is a great tool for tracking how many visitors are coming to your site, but it can be…
This is an important question, and one every person who is thinking of starting a website should ask themselves. Because truly, what’s the point in having a website if nobody sees it? It’s important to figure out what methods you will use to drive traffic to your site, because assuming that people will magically find…
If you have a new website, there’s a good chance you would like to have your own email address using your new domain, such as info@sumydesigns.com. That’s a reasonable request. But who wants to have to check a bunch of different email accounts. Not me. I have about 10 different accounts, but having to login…