Are you a local Florida business and need a website? Myth & Fact

If you are a local Florida business in need of a new or updated website look to the World Wide Web to help your local business thrive!

Local Business Myth 1
"I'm local service company and the only people who search the web are shoppers". Answer: FALSE.
RGB Response: Local searches happen everyday in Florida! not only from local city customers, but from out of state snowbirds & winter tourists. These are visitors who live in the northern states seeking a service for their 2nd home or while they are planning their vacation.

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Getting Back on Top with Google

"Is your website not doing well or loosing position in search engines?" Keeping yourself on top can be a nightmare for any business owner if you don't know what to do or who to seek for advice. Below are few easy things you can do to make sure you are towards top of your Google results:

Check your Google index.
To quickly determine whether your site is still in Google index, just perform a Google site search for its entire URL. A search for site:Your Domain

Make sure Google can find and crawl your site
Crawling is how Google-bot discovers new and updated pages to be added to the Google index. Google crawl process begins with a list of web page URLs, generated from previous crawl processes, and augmented with Sitemap data provided by webmasters. As Google-bot visits each of these websites, it detects links on each page and adds them to its list of pages to crawl. New sites, changes to existing sites, and dead links are noted and used to update the Google index.

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Why Small businesses need a quality website?

Being Local, Local businesses can gain tremendous growth and market share with a well designed website.

With the inception of the Internet placing ads in the local paper, joining a local networking group or hiring a sales force is simply not enough.

Majority of small business owners are under impression that if my product and services can not be sold online that means they won't benefit from website. Or that if your business is small you only need a 2 or 3 page website. In reality you are not only the loosing ability to differentiate yourself by underestimating your needs, but missing out on potential visitors (warm leads) seeking your local services!

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What to think about and how to get started on a website

So you have ideas for your next website or new venture. What's next?

Most of us know ourselves and defining a role in any new "venture" requires focus and discipline. Even the most exciting ideas are bound by tasks that we are either prepared for or know may be our weakest areas. Throw in technology that changes every second and away you go.

In lieu of time let's get to it.

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Thinking of joining the Better Business Bureau?

An associate was contacted by the Better Business Bureau "BBB"to become an accredited member. This company "X" has been servicing Marco Island for over 30 years. The BBB wanted to charge them over $3,000 for an annual membership. Our first question is why so much? Apparently the BBB charges you based on the total number of employees you have.While we did not think that was fair we continued to list out the pros and cons of membership.

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Don't loose your Google or other search engine rankings with a new website

After 11 years of building websites we have yet another challenge for our team. How do you build a new website without loosing good rankings for your old one? It's not difficult, but it is a lot of work in some cases. Mostly, it is imperative that you take the steps not to loose rankings, because once you do it is very difficult to establish them again with out a tremendous amount of work and in some cases you need to pay for advertising.

If your web site has established good visibility for your keywords that is valuable and you don't want to loose it.

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Techniques for Low Cost Web Design

With RGB Team Web achieving a productive web design with successful website marketing for a low cost is accomplished through a variety of well tested techniques. Since 2001 these techniques have been practiced, are continuously improved and perfected. We refer to them as the RGB Web Steps to Success and they are implemented in every web project we manage. It is very important in today's economy or any economy to provide business web services for a low or competitive cost. Small and medium size businesses need an affordable solution to the ever growing list of new services within the web industry. There are many benefits to owning a great website, but it must be gained at a price the business owner or individual can afford. It also needs to fit the environment or resources the owner within the owners grasp to maintain and grow. Our techniques for low cost web design begin with a process that implements simple organizational and communicative skills between the customer and the RGB web design team. We work towards gaining a fundamental understanding of the business and or objectives of the client for its personal services or company products, services and customer needs. Outlining the objectives in writing and confirming they are correct with the customer is essential to gaining initial goals and general cost for web projects.

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What is RGB Color?

A common color mode, RGB stands for the colors of Red, Green, Blue. Add red, green, and blue light to create white light. Because you ADD the colors together to get White, we call these RGB colors the additive primaries. Colors on screen are displayed by mixing varying amounts of red, green, and blue light.

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Get Set Go!

These are really small things which impacts on your web presence be sure to check these pages before you launch your website.

Favicon: It is a shortcut icon associated with a your Web site or Web page. It is really great feature for your website users to identify your bookmarked page.

Titles And Metadata: Your page title is the most important element for SEO and is also important so that users know what’s on the page. Make sure it changes on every page and relates to that page’s content. Meta description and keyword tags aren’t as important for SEO (at least for the major search engines anyway), but it’s still a good idea to include them. Change the description on each page to make it relate to that page’s content, because this is often what Google displays in its search result description.

Cross-Browser Compatibility: Cross-browser refers to the ability for a website, web application, HTML construct or client-side script to support all the web browsers. It doesn’t have to be pixel perfect, but everything should work, and the user shouldn’t see any problems. The most popular browsers to check are Internet Explorer 7 and 8, Firefox 3, Safari 3, Chrome, Opera and the iPhone/iPad.