It has been a super busy start of the 2017 year for our web design team and for many of our clients. We announced the addition of Lighthouse Painting to the Surf Your Name family a few weeks back. After a fast web development schedule, we have launched the brand new LighthousePainting.net website. Lighthouse Painting…
And here is the proof… We all know that SEO will increase your website’s performance, that is no surprise. The challenging part is finding a web developer or SEO expert that can provide the results they claim they can. We have all seen ads, messages, and proposals that say they can increase your website’s rank…
The trend in web design and web development for the past few years is “Responsive Web Design”. This trend is not going anywhere anytime soon, so you might as well get on the responsive website bandwagon. In fact, recent studies show that mobile web browsing has surpassed desktop web browsing. Mobile and tablet browsing now…
Email marketing is still one of the most cost-effective and reliable forms of marketing, but only if done correctly. While a simple Google search will provide blog articles and stories from people all over the globe on the topic, we have years of “real-world” experience to base our suggestions. Many of our clients are…
Every business has its specific language and acronyms they use to communicate with each other and to outsiders, it sounds like a foreign language. SurfYourName is no exception to this rule and sometimes web designers, web developers, and social media geeks are worse than average! While what we say may make sense to us,…
All of our clients know we have dedicated website hosting for clients at Surf Your Name. We do not take part in shared hosting servers where your site is hosted with thousands of other websites that can affect site speed and performance. In the past 3 years, we have had 22 minor server updates where…
Hackers from all over the world have been taking advantage of computers, websites, and other internet-connected devices for years. Their attacks have become more sophisticated and have been dealing more damage than ever before. The most recent attack on October 21, 2016, was proof that our defenses are not strong enough to thwart these attacks.…
The Entire team here at SurfYourName is happy to have VB Boat Rentals as part of our family! The owner of VB Boat Rentals, Susan, has been a friend for many years and we are happy to be helping with her website design, website maintenance, and website hosting! Susan was looking for a website…
Facebook has been under pressure from users for quite some time to add something more than the “Like” button for users to use when viewing their friend’s posts. Hitting that “Like” button isn’t always the best reaction for every occasion. Now Facebook is giving users more options; love, haha, wow, sad or angry are…
The amount of ways to market your small business is vast and the ability to track ROI (Return On Investment) is just as challenging as ever. A recent report from the Direct Marketing Association shows for every dollar spent on email marketing turns a $43 return on investment (ROI). This type of marketing can have…
A popular Internet and social media hoax surfaced again. Thousands of Facebook users have been copying and pasting a warning about changes to Facebook’s privacy policy. Below is a sample of what is being copied and pasted on millions of Facebook users accounts “As of September 26th, 2015 at 01:16 a.m. Eastern standard time, I…
Do you ever dream about having 50 or 100 new customers walking in your door in a month? Do you ever wonder if you could be doing a better job in marketing and spending less money? Making a small budget produce huge results isn’t easy. There are several key techniques needed to consistently develop new…
Usually, companies are sure that they already know their ideal keywords. Often, they are mistaken. SurfYourName guides you through internet marketing every step of the way. It is very difficult to be the business owner and look at it from the perspective of a potential customer, rather than an insider. Making a list of keywords…
Pay-per-click or PPC advertising is a very effective advertising method today and will be for a long time to come. However, it can get expensive if you know what you are doing and even more expensive if done improperly. PPC advertising gets your website listed on search engines when people type in a word describing…
A site map is exactly what it sounds like; it is a map of your web site. The use of images, rollovers, and program-based menus has made the site map a rarely used tool by most consumers. Consumers may have passed by sitemaps, but the search engine robots haven’t. Regardless of whether or not search…
Search Engine Optimization or SEO is the active practice of optimizing a web site by improving internal and external aspects of the entire site in order to increase the traffic the site receives from search engines. SurfYourName.com will work with you to determine if a broad or specific marketing campaign will best benefit your business.…
Why Do We Need Search Engines? For the same reason you need a card catalog in a library. There is lots of great and useful information in a library, but it’s physically impossible to examine all the books personally. Not even the most indefatigable web-surfer could hyperlink to all the documents in the aptly named…
