Today has been truly a great day of talking with potential clients about search engine optimization (SEO), social media and how both together can benefit them. We routinely are asked about SEO as that is prevalent on everyone's minds to drive business to their website. Every business knows they need a website in today's business world as this is where you have complete control over what information about your brand is out on the Internet, will match all of your marketing materials and present a professional image of your business. Additionally, by having your own website you will have an email address that is branded to you and not to a @yahoo, @Gmail, @comcast, etc. Your email address will be yourname@yourdomain.com which presents a more professional appeal.

As we continue to help our customers promote their websites through the search engine optimization (SEO) process we are constantly adding more search engines to our services on a monthly basis. As we add more search engines to our offerings for our customers who are already using one of our SEO plans they receive them for no additional costs. We feel that having this list will also benefit others that wish to do the submissions and SEO process themselves. The list below covers both the standard search engine submissions that JM2 Webdesigners offers as well as the local search options that we work on for our customers.

When it comes to search content is definitely the most important thing you can do for your website. With good, and quality, content your location on the search engine stands a better chance to be at the top of the organic search results. Along with the quality content you need to worry about keywords, your competition, page description, readability, non-spam, and semantic mark up.

As our first year quickly approaches we are reflecting on some major accomplishments as well as offering a special for everyone for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

One of the key items we notice about existing websites is that they are built, put into place, and just sit there in the hopes that they do something for them. We continually find text content with old dates and mentioning things that are surely in the past. For example, old news pages, mentioning items from years past, copyright notices that are from a year or more ago, and even no new dates being shown are a sign that your information is outdated, not kept up-to-date, and that it is an afterthought to your business.

We take the launch of your new website to be the same as hiring a new employee. As with all new hires you start evaluating an employee from day one. The first 90-120 days are crucial to the success, or failure, of an employee and seeing how they will benefit your organization. You start to measure their performance against a set of pre-established goals on a regular basis and making adjustments, remediation and further investment to make them the best that they can be.

Hiring someone to handle your companies search engine optimization (SEO) is like that of hiring a quality mechanic. Having a mechanic you can trust is to live with your mind at piece. Finding a good mechanic though can be a nightmare. One mechanic will look at your car and give you one price, and another will give you a price that is twice as much for the same amount of work. It would be easy to choose the cheaper one, but then you start wondering whether that guy knows what he's doing, if he is using cheaper parts that will break down the road and land you back in the repair shop in a few weeks.

Even though our first "true" year isn't officially done as we opened our doors in March of 2013 the first fiscal year is now coming to a close. 2013 was a great year for us and the light in the tunnel is getting brighter each day. As such, we want to thank all of our current customers and those that are already coming on board in early 2014 as it is because of you that we are able to do what we love to do. We would also like to give a warm welcome to those that will be joining us in 2014 and beyond as well because you are the reason we continue to grow.