Hey yall. Good day and welcome to the new and improved BigCloudMedia.com. After our last remodel, we decided we could do it even better and the result is out.
As with all things, constant improvement is necessary to succeed and so as evident by our many redesigns, we are constantly improving our offering for our customers.
Though we have a new look, we are still the same company with the same goals of servicing our clients in the highest possible way with the best possible results. We still specialize in web-design, development and marketing and we would love to hear your feedback to on our new and improved website.
Also, we developed a new logo for ourselves in an attempt to reach the core of our being with our brand. We now have our new logo up and ready to go for our marketing efforts so be prepared to start seeing it everywhere.
We are working with many companies in collaboration to offer our clients an even more broad range of creative and marketing services, so please, if you have a need online, call us first and get the real deal when it comes to web and marketing.
Thanks for reading and have a wonderful day.
Big Cloud Media
Posted in The Big Cloud, The Buzz on { January 29th, 2010 } ~ 2 Comments
Tagged with: Big Cloud Media • logo • redesign • SEO • services • web design • website • website design • websites
Hey folks.
This post is about how to make sure your website headers match your content. This is a short review of how to find them and also, what they should be. You would be surprised how many website owners I have talked to that don’t know how Google and the other search engines are reading their content, and why it is being read a certain way. Knowing and adjusting your website header content is a big step in getting your website on the right track for effective SEO and online marketing.
How do I see my website header tags and what is in them?
Here is how to check to see what your headers look like:
- Visit your website.
- Click “View” in your browser.
- Click the “View Source” option.
- When the source code loads, you should see something like the code listed below. This blog is focusing on the meta tags “keywords” , “description”, and “title” just to keep things short. They are labeled in like colors in the code below :
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en-US">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="description" content="Big Cloud Media is an Arlington, TX based, web-design, development and marketing company that builds business websites, web-applications, and marketing solutions." />
<meta name="keywords" content="web-design, development, marketing, business, Search Engine Optimization, websites, website" />
<title>Big Cloud Media Custom Business Website Design, Development & Marketing</title>
These tags make up part of what is known as the web-page header. They suggest to search bots how to list your page in their search results and how to categorize your site.
Website Meta Keywords
The website meta keywords can be found by the <meta name=“keywords” tag:
<meta name=“keywords” content=”web-design, development, marketing, business, Search Engine Optimization, websites, website” />
The content=”…” portion of this code is where you indicate which keywords you would like your site to be associated with. The catch here though is that you want them to be relevant to your code in your webpage. If they are not, it can hinder your SEO efforts. It is a good idea to repeat the keywords that you want to be found by in your content several times so that your keywords line up with your content. Do it with class though and make sure that the sentences make sense. There isn’t a point in trying to appease the search engines if you lose visitors in the process.
The Meta Description:
The website meta description can be found by looking for the <meta name=”description” tag:
<meta name=”description” content=”Big Cloud Media is an Arlington, TX based, web-design, development and marketing company that builds business websites, web-applications, and marketing solutions.” />
The meta description is where you give the search engines a short blurb about the webpage. This is often, in the Google search, the description that shows up under the search result. Sometimes the search engines will create their own for your site but if your description matches your content, it is likely Google will use it. Having an accurate and concise description of your site will also help your SEO efforts later on down the road. The more your headers line up with the content, the better.
The Title Tag
The title tag is can be found by looking for the <title> tag:
<title>Big Cloud Media Custom Business Website Design, Development & Marketing</title>
The <title> tag is your page title and also the text that appears in your browsers window bar. This should be intuitive and match up with your page content as well. The theme here is continuity. If your page is about Dogs, the title should include “Dogs” in it. The title of your page helps in your suggestion to the search engines about how your site should be listed and in what categories and search terms.
Why should I care about my meta tags?
Ultimately, it all comes down to how search engine friendly do you want your site to be and also, what does the search engine see when it reads your page. The more things that are missing, the less likely your site will be listed correctly and associated with the right search terms. Checking your headers and making sure they are accurate can also help to make your SEO efforts more fruitful.
This blog came around from a real-world situation I recently came upon. I recently met with a prospective client and after doing a site overview (which includes checking their header tags) we found random stuff in them including unrelated words, references to other companies, etc. Their header tags were hindering their progression online and were definitely not helping their SEO efforts. The prospective client had no clue until this was addressed by us. Thus, this post, my effort to help you all know a little more about the content that represents you online.
If you have more questions about any of this, please leave a comment or contact us right away. We would be more than happy to help you in your specific situation.
Thanks for reading and I hope that this post has been helpful for you.
Big Cloud Media
Posted in The Buzz on { December 8th, 2009 } ~ 12 Comments
Tagged with: Big Cloud Media • bigcloudmedia • code • content • description • effective • effectiveness • Google • keywords • meta • meta-tags • online marketing • SEO • source • tags • title • website • websites
Big Cloud Media is proud to announce that we now offer 2 different kinds of SEO solutions for your business. SEO is Search Engine Optimization and it is a blanket term for any techniques that will help to raise your ranking in the search engines.
Our new SEO program takes it a step further and is focused on not only getting your website first search page presence when certain keywords are searched, but taking up 4-6 spots on that first search results page. Imagine your website showing up in 5 results on the first page of the google search instead of 1 result. This is an incredible advance in the SEO world and the results are guranteed.
If you are interested in applying this innovative SEO technique to your website give us a call at 210-373-7352 and we can discuss it more in detail with you and answer any questions you may have.
Thank you for reading and God bless.
Big Cloud Media
Posted in The Big Cloud, The Buzz on { September 30th, 2009 } ~ 3 Comments
Tagged with: Big Cloud Media • bigcloudmedia • business • effective • effectiveness • Google • search engine optimization • SEO • websites
