We’re building a website for Curb Appeal of Columbia, a Mid Missouri home improvement company. We’re building it using WordPress as a CMS. The domain is only a couple months old but it already has a decent presence on search returns pages. Craig, the owner of Curb Appeal, is a designer too and built a website that we are using as inspiration for our work.

concrete overlay, columbia, moHere is a little about Curb Appeal from them. “Curb Appeal of Columbia, MO. is a locally owned & operated company that offers commercial & residential services including pressure washingdeck restoration and landscape curbing.

We’ve been serving the needs of Columbia homeowners & businesses over 11 years. We have an outstanding record of customer satisfaction and all our home restoration specialists are trained, certified, insured and licensed to take care of your needs.

Call Craig, 573-881-4303 for a free consultation and estimate or use our online form. The gallery below includes images from many of our various services. Concrete overlay & repair, landscape curbing, pressure washing, deck restoration, landscape lighting and more.

Curb appeal is fairly active on twitter so go give them a follow. You can like them on Facebook too.

Your web presence can be your best marketing tool. We’re experienced in corporate, small business, non profit & organization websites. Most local & regional businesses will find our web design package a good starting point when researching our prices and services. We can repair and SEO existing websites too.

 
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If you have have a disorganized internet marketing strategy and out-dated website we can help. We can also increase your web’s speed, usability and findability within search engine results.

Our web repair services includes:

  • Code Markup Validation – includes error report and repairs.
  • Section 508 Accessibility – includes error report and repairs, Stephen is certified to do this by the USGSA.
  • Keyword Research & Re-coding – we produce appropriate file names and content after analyzing Google keyword tool data.
  • Social Mapping – we draw an internet marketing ‘map’ considering the best applications with which to promote your business.
  • Graphic Design – we can completely re-design your look or use your existing branding.
  • On-Site Search Engine Optimization(SEO) – don’t mess with inexperience, all of our current clients are on page one.

I’m Stephen and I’ve coordinated the web presences of corporate, small business, non-profits & community organizations. See my ‘real’ website at http://urlmd.com

 

A third reason I love my job is yet another review. This one is from a client in Boston. We built a website for the non profit organization he runs and it turned out so well that he retained our services to promote his real estate ventures with a web management plan. His real estate ventures help fund the non profit, by the way, so if you’re looking for a condo or historic home in the Boston area call Tom.

african great youth education initiativeStephen quickly and accurately assessed my IT needs and was able to sort through the muddle of my inexperienced computer retardation make sense out of the mess I had assembled, and put it all together in a clear and user friendly way. He is easy to talk to, personable and gets the job done. My only regret is, that this site restricts me to citing only three positive attributes!”  Tom Von Zabern, September 9, 2011

Check out the non profit org website we built at http://agyei.org and find tom on Twitter at @homeincambridge. You can follow him on Facebook at Historic Homes and read his blogs on Blogger by clicking here

 

One of the reasons I love my job as a web designer/manager are reviews like this one from a long time client, Debbie, form Heaven Sent LLC of Hamilton, Ohio. We built her a simple HTML front end and launched and modified a WordPress CMS. We also created and manage a social network consisting of Facebook, Twitter, Blogspot, Squidoo and a few others.

I am a small business owner in Hamilton, OH.  I had a web-site that we designed and put on the web ourselves but found there was little to no business being generated from it.

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Heaven Sent LLC - back cover in U Miami, Ohio magazine.

A friend of mine told me about Netometry Web Design so I decided to give them the opportunity to re-design my web-site.  WOW am I happy, ecstatic, over-whelmed, shocked (words that do not begin to explain the God send they have been), with the results!!!

Since they started re-designing my web-site, http://heavensentweddingchapel.com I have seen a dramatic increase in web traffic and sales.  Before Netometry we were lucky to get a call every 3-4 weeks as a result of our web-site, and very little to no, significant sales.  Now we are getting calls daily from people who have found us on-line and the web-site is still under construction!

Although the web-site is only partially re-constructed, and only been on-line for a short time, we have sold several wedding packages and wedding and special occasion cakes that are a direct result of our re-designed site.

Lastly, as a small business owner, in hard economic times, we had little money to invest in web-site re-design.  Netometry worked with us to come up with a professional and high quality site that we could afford on our limited budget.

I highly recommend Netometry to anyone who already has a web-site or is contemplating hiring a web designer.  As they have done for us, they can improve your presence on the internet, increase your sales, and deliver you a quality web-site, and all at an affordable price .  Thank you again Netometry!!!”

She posted that review on Yelp for all to see. Thanks so much Debbie!

Stephen

 

Twitter is a great way to spread information about your company, even if your ‘company’ is a locally focused small business. It’s also a good place to build a new following and grow your business beyond it’s local limits by taking part in hash tag(#) conversations with others from around the globe.

It’s easy to connect most popular social networks with your website, if it’s designed with a modern CMS, and Twitter is no exception. If you use a CMS such as WordPress, then feed Twitter with RSS, you never need to physically log into twitter again, if you didn’t want to. So, it’s easy, affordable and worthwhile to add Twitter to your marketing plan. Especially if you add content to your website regularly.

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No matter where you are, get national exposure through Twitter

Twitter cleaned up its act a while back with a new look(undergoing more UI changes currently). We’ve much enjoyed the new design. But did we know that the birdie got all gussied up for the big show? Yeah, we did. How could we not? Twitter is the best looking & most simply functional site on the net, according to just about everyone. I wonder if it will ever go public.

Why is Twitter Good for #SEO?

Tweeting a page is one of the best ways of ‘alerting’ web crawlers of a new(or older) url’s presence.

Tweeting enables your on site search engine optimization to work because when you tweet a url information companies notice. I’ve tweeted an article and 5 minutes later found it on page 1 of a Google query, already cached.

There are other social bookmarking sites and micro-blogs feeding the info companies, but the sheer number of bots which follow twitter links makes twitter the top traffic cop I’ve ever observed. I’ve watched MSN, YHOO, GOOG, AMZN, and a few others all hit a new tweet at once.

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Yes, Twitter is good for SEO

I read a very popular optimization blog recently and in it the words twitter, seo, and waste of time were all mentioned in the same sentence. I can speak from personal experience when I say that twitter is a very good tool if used appropriately and if that use is weighed accordingly. Aforementioned blogger was probably upset that @aplusk didn’t follow him back.

Always tweet your content considering humans and web crawlers and I’ll be seeing you soon in GOOG returns. Tweet randomly since if you just sit there and tweet, after the second or third one you’re tweets don’t attract the same attention. One every 1.0 hours seems good for indexing results.

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