http://www.kantnerdesign.com/blog Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:20:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Google Caffeine is the name given to Google's next algorithm update that is going live after the holidays. It seems that Google Caffeine will be more than Google's regular updates. It will probably be a major overhaul of the calculations that Google uses to rank web pages. What is going to ... http://www.kantnerdesign.com/blog/?p=50 For many businesses, it is very important to be listed in Google Maps. If you offer a service or a product that is relevant to a special area, you might miss many visitors if your website is not listed in Google Maps. Your website can be listed on page one, above ... http://www.kantnerdesign.com/blog/?p=44 Here are a few strategies for promoting your website and business using social networking. Use social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to build followers, but you must give them a reason to become a member of your community. Do this by giving people information they can use or offering special ... http://www.kantnerdesign.com/blog/?p=32 Kantner Design has been working on a new website for Performance Signs, located in Athens, Ohio.  Performance offers a full range of signs and services including vehicle graphics, banners, dimensional lettering, ready to apply decals and lettering, full color graphics, and much more. Performance 's previous website was created around ... http://www.kantnerdesign.com/blog/?p=23 Bing is not dramatically different from Google, but some people have found its results stronger. There are some visible changes: Bing shows a preview of the web pages in the search results when you hover your mouse pointer at the right side of the search results. Bing displays fewer results if it ... http://www.kantnerdesign.com/blog/?p=20 Microsoft's Bing search engine has overtaken Yahoo! to become the second ranked search engine in the United States and worldwide (Google is #1 of course.) Perhaps some of this is due to the novelty of the new search engine and time will tell if people will continue to use Bing ... http://www.kantnerdesign.com/blog/?p=17 The new search engine from Microsoft, called Bing, is really looking neat! Here is a video about it http://www.kantnerdesign.com/blog/?p=15 Link Building Inbound links are the basis for good search engine rankings. The more links coming in to your site the easier it will be to rank high. Each link is like a vote for your website, saying, "This is good, relevant information." On the other hand if you competition has ... http://www.kantnerdesign.com/blog/?p=9 Trust is an important factor in Google's ranking of websites.  The most important thing is to always design your site for the user and not for the search engine. If Google thinks all you are doing is spamming and not providing valuable content, you will lose trust.  You need to ... http://www.kantnerdesign.com/blog/?p=3