January 25, 2010By: Red Spot Design Category: Website Design
PRESS RELEASE 1/25/2010 - DALLAS, TEXAS
The Colony Convention & Visitors Bureau, has recently launched its new website, www.VisitTheColonyTx.com, to promote the City of The Colony to visitors coming to the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex.
The Colony, City by the Lake, is one of the best kept secrets in the heart of North Texas. Best known for strikingly beautiful views of Lewisville Lake, The Colony extends 23 miles along its eastern shoreline. Residents and visitors alike immerse themselves in hundreds of acres of wildlife as they enjoy a myriad of recreational opportunities including camping, fishing, swimming, boating, hiking, picnicking and cycling.
The Colony Convention & Visitors Bureau chose Dallas Web Design Company Red Spot Design, LLC (www.redspotdesign.com) for their website design project. In speaking about Red Spot Design, Christie Hartwell from The Colony Convention & Visitors Bureau said “We received more than 25 submitted comments within hours of our Convention & Visitors Bureau site going live - all expressing their utmost praise. Countless verbal remarks continue to pour in from citizens, employees, businesses and organizations to express their support as well. Most importantly, our city council was thrilled with the all the detailed information and easy navigation. We have you to thank for bringing our vision to life. In addition, we are grateful for the great service you provided– especially your promptness in making changes and updates. Thank you Red Spot Design for your help in creating an outstanding website for The Colony Convention & Visitors Bureau”
Red Spot Design is a Dallas based web design and SEO company that offers affordable website design, search engine optimization and internet marketing to companies across the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex.
Check your site speed using Google webmaster tools?
Have you checked your Google Webmaster Tools lately? If your answer is no, than this can be exciting news for you and you might surprised as it can be of assistance to get higher ranking in Google SERP. This is all about your site speed - the fresh concept to determine site placements which will be affixed to Google’s algorithm in the near future.
Google has gone through many experiments on their search results to measure their intuition about “speed matters” over the Internet. Putting ahead a concept of speed they started to analyze users’ behavior when search takes a long time to load. In each area of the experiments, Google reviewed speed as a competitive advantage. So, this helped to understand the main concern of search results connected with speed and other features. All the lab results had shown the importance of speed with greater insight of it. Speed as a key factor for Google is driven by factors such as result return time and website loading in the browser.
Now you can easily measure your site speed average time. This can assist your website to comply with Google’s webmaster guideline and latest regulations for ranking factor. Google calls this feature “Site Performance”.
You can access this feature within your account in the tab “Labs” and then “Site performance.
Press releases are a great way to market your business to get your name out there and they are a great form of search engine marketing.
Here is an example:
We recently became a Dallas Better Business Bureau Accredited business so we decided to do a short press release about this.
Within about 5 minutes our new press release was listed as the #4 listing in Google for “dallas web design” and the #1 listng in MSN’s new “Bing” Search engine for “dallas web design company”
See the screen shots below for the results:
Dallas Web Design - Press Release #4 Listing
Dallas Web Design - Press Release #1 Listing in Bing.com
The ranking results do not necessarily last for a long time, but it is a great way to get news about your company out to the public and can many times bring in a number of new leads for people looking for your services.
May 21, 2009By: Red Spot Design Category: Website Design
Twitter, a new social media site, is a promotional tool for you or your business. “It gives you frequent answers to one question: What are you doing?” An answer to a simple question can connect you to many people. With a feature like that of MySpace and Facebook, Twitter allows you to send out to the masses what you’re doing. That’s it. An update to that question does many things. It keeps people informed; there is no limit as to how many times you update.
It relates your message to those within your network, but it also grabs on to other networks, which then grabs on to others and the cycle continues. It gives updated information on your whereabouts and new information that is important to your viewers. Twitter has now gone mobile so people in your immediate network or extended network can know what you’re doing when they’re on the go or when you are on the go. Have a new business idea? Post it. Want to share a business idea? Post it. It’s a convenient way to let people get updated with your goings-on as a business in a mobile world.
With more and more people signing up for Twitter everyday, it is a good idea to ride its momentum. Over a million people use Twitter, including businesses. This is just one of many ways to promote your business over a wide-open web.
April 22, 2009By: Red Spot Design Category: Website Design
The Internet is a vast space that holds a plethora of information and as such, there is growing competition on the web. Web space is constantly growing and more and more sites are popping up. With this expansion hitting an all-time high, it is drastically important to take advantage of the many social media outlets that are available. Social media sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter offer services (many times free) to market your business across a wide array of networks across the Internet. This allows a wider audience to see your site.
Social sites let the viewers know exactly what you’re all about. The setup and information is completely up to the user and the one feature that remains consistent across all social sites are blogs. Blogs are entryways into the heart of your business. Discuss your business how you want to discuss it. There is no limitation. Put your own spin on it and not from an outside source that doesn’t know your business as intimately as you do.
Social media can be compared to starting a fire. All the fire needs to do is catch on and it will spread. Use the expansion of the web to your advantage. There are many social sites that exist today and there is no telling how many more will occur in the near future. The Internet isn’t getting any smaller and there are more and more websites occurring everyday. Stay ahead as much as you can. After all, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
