What People are Saying about the latest Freedom Florida client website
Aug 20, 2009 web building
Gabriela of spa98.com sends in another great testimonial about her new website built by Freedom Florida recently. One of Gabriela’s future customers states “Impressive website! Now, I’ll have to do something about my sun damage!”.
You can view Gabriela’s new website at spa98.com
If you would like a free quote for your company’s website or website redesign, contact us today!
Florida Freedom announces new “Peel Away Ads” just for Realtors!
Aug 13, 2009 real estate
Attention Realtors! Looking for a suberb, inexpensive way to reach the local community? Northwest Florida Daily News announces limited availability for its “Peel Away Ad” campaign. See an example of a Real Estate Peel Away ad here. The Northwest Daily News Site is one of the most highly trafficked sites in the area and is offering limited availability in the upper right hand corner of it’s home page.
For availability, contact Megan MacDonnell
850.658.0536 | megan_macdonnell@link.freedom.com
Tags: megan macdonnell, northwest florida daily news, real estate, realtor
Video Advertising in Destin
Aug 7, 2009 video advertising
Leverage the power of video advertising in Destin. Video is the future of advertising on the web. Video offers a rich, entertaining and proven advertising platform that influences consumers to take action, while providing an engaging environment to deliver a compelling advertising message. We are proud to offer the very latest in cutting edge video capabilities.
Whether your goal is to incorporate your TV commercials into you online campaign or show a product video in you banner, there’s no better way to appeal to audiences and convey your brand that with video.
Drive Results for your Destin business with Video
- * Over 80% of online users recall seeing video advertising and 52% have taken action as a result!
- * Over 40% of internet users watch online videos at least weekly; over 70% at least monthly
- * News and entertainment videos reach over 70% of online users, with about 6 to 9 viewing sessions per month!
New Testimonial from Nautilus Condominium
Aug 5, 2009 real estate
Having just completed nautiluscondominium.com, EmeraldCoast.com recently received the following testimonial.
Wooooohoooooo! Last night we had 2 reservations online from guests who have never stayed with us before!!! This points me to believe that they were booked solely based on our website and the online booking engine. Congrats Peggy, our web developers and Ron with Entech for helping us get started on the right path. Not bad for the first day, huh? Congratulations are in order for both of you and your development teams!!
Thanks!!!
Kymberly Clapper
General Manager
The Nautilus Condominium
Tags: condominium
EmeraldCoast.com launches new real estate website
Aug 5, 2009 real estate
EmeraldCoast.com is proud to announce the launch of a new real estate site… www.ChristinaMeinen.com This site features full MLS integration making the MLS searchable by its users. If you would like to find out more about our real estate service packages please contact us at sales@emeraldcoast.com
Tags: emeraldcoast.com, real estate
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Best Practices
Aug 4, 2009 pay per click, seo, web building
To leverage your PPC ad spend, it’s crucial to have a website and/or landing page that is optimized for search. The following is a list of some of the processes we perform in order for your website to be easily found on the web.
1. 301 redirect - This is a server setting (in our case Apache) For example, http://yoursite.com will automatically redirect to http://www.yoursite.com This is important since you always want Google to index the “same” URL version of your website.
In the .htaccess file on the Apache server, the following code needs to be inserted
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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^emeraldcoastdesign.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.emeraldcoastdesign.com/$1 [L,R=301]
2. Create a “robots.txt” file in the root directory of the server. This tells Google what directories to index and what directories not to index. For example, if there is a directory where all of your video media is stored, you would want to “Disallow” that directory to be read. Whereas, if you have a directory that contains the majority of your keyword-rich content, you would want Google to read that and only that content since it is relevant to the search terms that you would like to be found for.
3. Always separate the “style” from the “content” by creating a separate style sheet. This makes it easy for the Google Bot to distinguish between your relevant “content” and your source code.
4. Always provide keyword rich descriptions in the “alt” tags of your images.
5. Try to use text in your navigation bar rather than images. This is because text can be “crawled” by the search engines.
6. Name your directories with good descriptive words. For example, if you have a “beach condo” website, name your main content directory “beach-condo”. By doing this, the search engines “see” your site as very relevant to “beach condo”!
7. Use a blog powered by Wordpress. Wordpress blogs are already fairly optimized for search engines and blogs are simply a great way for you to get great content uploaded quickly that the search engines love.
8. Use includes where possible. If you need to make changes on a site, make it easy on yourself by having common elements on your site split up into “includes”. There’s nothing more agonizing than wanting to make a small tweak for SEO sake, and realizing that the change has to be made on dozens of individual pages:(
9. Create individual titles for your pages. The “title” tag is one of the most important, from an SEO perspective.
10. Customize the meta content and keyword tags. This is important in that these are the tags that “describe” your page’s content to the seach engines.
These are just some of the search engine optimization techniques we use here at Freedom Florida. Contact us today for a free analysis of your website.
Tags: ad spend, apache, google, ppc, search engine, search engine optimization, seo, wordpress
Leveraging the Internet - Part Three
Aug 3, 2009 email advertising, social networking
Part Three of a presentation by Peggy Mahone, Internet Specialist with Freedom Florida, on how to “Leverage the Internet - Actions You Can Take Today to Drive Audience to Your Website - at Little or No Cost.” The video covers everything from email campaigns to social media.
I would like to take this opportunity to recognize the superb job that was done for Eagle Nest On-Line Academy. From start to finish the job has been not only professional but personable. It would be easy for me to recommend them to anyone seeking their expertise.
