http://guavagraphics.com Simple, Beautiful and Effective Results. Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:44:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://guavagraphics.com/easy-web-wordpress-as-cms/ http://guavagraphics.com/easy-web-wordpress-as-cms/#comments Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:12:57 +0000 admin http://guavagraphics.com/?p=442 www.wordpress.org) has been around for quite while. Starting as a blog platform, it quickly grew to the viable CMS platform you see today. A Content Management System (CMS) is software that helps you organize and maintain your web content. WordPress offers a fantastic CMS that creates and manages your links, pages, and posts for your site. The free open source application has been developed to be user friendly and is the most popular platform. It is as easy to use as e-mail, Microsoft Word, and Facebook, which is perfect for the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) folks.  Additionally, it saves you time and money, giving you the control. Using WordPress can have a huge web impact for any small to medium size business. Here’s a list of some of the high impact free tools WordPress has to offer:

• Easy one click installation.
• Content maintenance without knowing HTML.
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is free, out of the box. Google loves WordPress!
• Your site can grow with your business, enhanced functionality, features and security can be added at any time.
• Support is easy to find, just look for Guava Graphics.

If you are interested in getting a professional website designed, supported or optimized, please call us.]]> http://guavagraphics.com/easy-web-wordpress-as-cms/feed/ 0 http://guavagraphics.com/rss-for-web-site-owners/ http://guavagraphics.com/rss-for-web-site-owners/#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:48:36 +0000 Susan Venancio http://guavagraphics.com/?p=289 Well, last week I wrote about RSS feeds for you as the Internet user, this week it’s about you as the Web site owner. This is a fantastic tool for site owners! Getting directly to the point, you need to add an RSS Feed to your site to increase your visibility. Just by adding an RSS button to your site, you can double your site’s visibility. And this little button makes you appear to be a more credible expert in your field. Need more reasons? Okay, here are several more reasons to add RSS feeds to your site:

1. Deliverability: Subscribers request your information, no need to get a visitor’s permission, no need to wonder if the email was blocked by spam filters, and no need to worry if your message goes unopened or deleted.
2. Value: It keeps your customer conveniently connected; their RSS reader will provide a list of your keyword headline news articles, promotions, etc.
3. Content: Use multiple RSS feeds to deliver target content; visitors will be able to choose the content that peaks their interests. For example, a customer may want to subscribe only to information about blogging, and not e-commerce information.
4. Syndicate: Offer third party information on your site that compliments your field of business, rather than developing your own content.
5. Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Write your content using your specific keywords and phrases to help build your search engine rankings. Your site has the potential to get picked up and used as new content for other sites, which will push your site up the ranks.

Most platforms will automatically set up an RSS feed for you. If you are just getting started take a look at https://www.blogger.com/start or http://wordpress.com/. Cheers! Here’s to having another effective marketing tool.]]> http://guavagraphics.com/rss-for-web-site-owners/feed/ 0 http://guavagraphics.com/do-it-yourself-seo-build-your-links/ http://guavagraphics.com/do-it-yourself-seo-build-your-links/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:11:52 +0000 Jose Bono http://guavagraphics.com/?p=189 The idea that SEO (search engine optimization) is a black box that only professionals can crack is just silly. Some of the basic SEO and link building tasks can be handle by you the business/website owner. Submitting your website to web directories is one of the rudimentary things to do when building a link strategy. Here is a list of the top 10 web directories (and their page rank) you can visit to add your business for free.

1. www.dmoz.org  PR:9
2. www.lii.org/ PR:8
3. www.hotfrog.com PR:7
4. www.somuch.com PR:6
5. www.skoobe.biz/ PR:6
6. www.netinsert.com PR:6
7. www.jayde.com PR:6
8. www.info-listings.com PR:6
9. www.gimpsy.com PR:6
10. www.geniusfind.com/ PR:6

For more information on SEO and link building strategy, contact us today at start@guavagraphics.com or call 800-482-8224.]]> http://guavagraphics.com/do-it-yourself-seo-build-your-links/feed/ 0