In this week's webinar video, Simple Biz Support talks to us about the importance of having a website that is responsive to mobile devices, and how Google is very likely penalizing sites that aren't responsive. It has been our opinion for a few years now that if your site isn't responsive that you are going to be left behind. The data on how many people now surf the web from a mobile device versus a computer, is showing mobile devices to be predominant, and will continue to shift in that directi...

It goes without saying that you know your business needs a website, it should be responsive to mobile devices, it needs to be full of good SEO optimized content, and it needs to be easy to navigate. The majority of those things should be handled by your web development company, save for maybe the content. The content in most cases will be your job because no amount of research will ever amount to the fact that you are the expert in what you do, and nobody knows what you do better than you do....

Odds are, you don't just want to be found for the city you're in, but also for the surrounding locations. Today's video conversation with Simple Biz Support talks about how to be found in multiple cities, so that whether you want to be found for web design in Santa Rosa, web design in Petaluma, or any of the other surrounding areas, you will be found. We also talk about how to optimize for multiple physical business locations with Google and other search directories.You may think that you onl...

The way websites work is always transforming and will always be transforming. In the last few years, website design and function have been changing at an even faster pace than usual due to the introduction of mobile devices driving websites to become responsive and Google’s consistently changing strict set of unwritten rules on how to rank well. Up until the point when websites needed to become responsive, many a website could and have been surviving on the same design and coding styles tha...

In this week's conversation between Virginie Dorn from BWC and Ryan Perry from Simple Biz Support, we discuss how using consistency when listing company information within various online databases, as well as other tactics, can help you build trust with Google so that you are displayed higher on the map screen. Google looks for several clues when trying to determine the legitimacy of your business, and if you're not careful, seemingly harmless choices or errors could actually keep you from achie...