Having your website marketed in the right way is one of the most important things when first launching your new website. There are many search engines out there such as Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft Bing. You want your site on each search engine to attract your clients to your website. You also want to make sure you are at the top of the search engines to make sure potential clients find you first. Market … [Read more...]

One of the easy things you can do with your wordpress site is adding pictures to the Featured Posts section on your home page. For this tutorial we will be using the Market Mechanics made site: A Celebration of Women Please note, this tutorial requires that you know how to make a post. To see how to do this, see this tutorial. To see what we're going to do, check out the before and after screenshots … [Read more...]

So you have your new site, but how do you use it, how do you log in, how can you edit your content? Majority of our sites are built on the Wordpress framework. What is wordpress? Wordpress is a blogging software that lets you easily edit, update and post changes to your site, anyone can use it. So your probably saying “my site isn’t a blog” and chances are your right. However, along with being … [Read more...]

The featured content gallery (FCG)  is a great home page tool that is easy for a web administrator to edit and change up content. The FCG can display pictures and text of two or more different posts or pages on your website. To fully see what it looks like on any page just take a look at the Market Mechanics home page. There are four steps involved in configuring the gallery and we'll go through … [Read more...]

Design and content guidelines Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link. Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you may want to break the site map into separate pages. Create a useful, information-rich site, and write pages … [Read more...]

Submit a Sitemap using Google Webmaster Tools. Google uses your Sitemap to learn about the structure of your site and to increase our coverage of your webpages. Crawling Crawling is the process by which Googlebot discovers new and updated pages to be added to the Google index. We use a huge set of computers to fetch (or "crawl") billions of pages on the web. The program that does the fetching … [Read more...]

Google Local Business Results Google Local Business Centre was created to help make local search results more relevant and enable businesses to create free Google business directory listings. The advantage of this is that your business listing will appear when a user searches for a type of business followed by the location where they are searching. The sites that are listed in the Local Business Centre could … [Read more...]