By now, most marketers are familiar with the concept of landing pages and what they do. But being familiar doesn’t necessarily equate to having an effective understanding of why designing them correctly is vitally important to your Pay-Per-Click (PPC) campaigns, and any other marketing initiatives a company may be running to drive traffic to them. … Read More
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Project Spotlight: CU Maurice River Website
Scientific Marketing Services has recently gone live on a long anticipated project. Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River and Its Tributaries, Inc. (CU Maurice River) now has a new and improved website that has been in the works for over a year. CU Maurice River’s mission is to protect the watershed of the Maurice … Read More
Explaining Website Audits and Why You Need Them: Pt 3
Previously, I’ve cited meta descriptions and website content as two examples of why companies need to audit their websites in order to keep in Google’s better graces. Again, Google isn’t necessarily just pushing websites around in order to feel powerful and coerce budgets into PPC bidding wars. Rather, it is attempting to provide the greatest … Read More
Explaining Website Audits and Why You Need Them: Pt 2
In the previous post I discussed how website audits were becoming essential to SEO practices in order to prevent Google penalties and stay at the top of search rankings. I listed meta descriptions as important elements for driving traffic from SERPs as they were responsible for enticing users to visit a page on your company’s … Read More
Explaining Website Audits and Why You Need Them: Pt 1
Before we dig into some of the nuts and bolts of tweaking your website to avoid Google penalties, SMS Web Designer, Melissa McDermott, responded to my post about secure transfer protocol with two additional pieces of information regarding HTTPS and Security Certificates that I felt were important to share: 1_ Some hosting providers charge you per … Read More
Project Spotlight: Updating the Acu-Print Website
Acu•Print is a small digital printing company that provides an expansive variety of professional printing services. They are located in Vineland, New Jersey and have been creating impressive printing pieces for the architectural, engineering and construction industries, and other professions for over 30 years. While their wide range of capabilities is impressive, they came to … Read More
HTTP v. HTTPS: Is Your Website Secure?
On a bi-monthly basis, SMS conducts audits on client websites to determine their “Google health”. In other words, Google uses algorithms to reward those sites that are user-friendly and informative and penalizes those that may have attributes that are less desirable or give the appearance of “spam” sites. It’s in Google’s interests to provide their … Read More
Keeping the Act Moving
A recent article in the online Houston Business Journal cites statistics to prove something many marketers are learning every day: video content on your website increases sales. “Recent research has noted that adding videos to a website can increase visibility on Google, leading to higher page rankings and, subsequently, more visitors to a site.” Here … Read More
It May Be Alive, but Is Your Website Responsive?
January is the best time to get a sales year off to a good start, which means it may be time to examine your website to make sure it’s talking to all the prospects that want to talk to it. With more and more clients and prospects using mobile devices, it’s very important that your … Read More