Data. Data is everywhere. Whether we’re reading about the stats of our favorite baseball players, or looking at the number of followers we’ve gotten this week on Instagram, it’s all around us, all the time. The web of course, is no different. Billions of users are making billions more purchases, interactions, and pageviews every minute…
SurfYourName may be a web design firm, but we also put strong emphasis on supporting other businesses we work with as much as possible. There are a lot of avenues of exposure when trying to promote yourself, and while your website is important, it’s also important to put your name out there in other ways.…
This summer Google announced a new platform that they will be charging developers who use Google Maps API on their websites with. Now developers will have to use the new Google Maps Platform to set up the Google Maps API on their website. This platform promises free support, pay-as-you-go billing, new maps solutions, and simplified…
Where is your smartphone right now? If you’re like any other person living in the digital age… it’s probably within an arm’s length. Mobile phones are a phenomenon that has developed rapidly over a short amount of time and have become an essential part of everyday life. Because of this, the idea of a mobile-first…
Don’t you hate it what there is another bed review on Google My Business or Facebook? We do too. But you should not only hate it but also accept it and learn from it. So, you just received a bad review. Step one: don’t panic! Any business will eventually get a bad review, there is…
The website that we designed for The Country Times back in the early 2000s. At Surf Your Name, we have clients who come to us from all over because they have a website that is outdated and not producing the results they’re looking for. In the past, we’ve written about how important having a…
It is impossible, as a business owner to please every single employee who walks through your doors. And while you try to keep them all happy and give them second chances, odds are that you’ve had to let someone go at some point. If you’re like most businesses… you probably have one or two bad…
Its 2018 and online reviews are the name of the game. If you’re a business owner, you probably know just how important online reviews are to your business. But did you know that over 80% of consumers trust an online review as much as a personal recommendation? Or that about 50% of customers won’t visit…
A while back we wrote about the steps that Google Chrome was taking toward a more secure internet by alerting all visitors to an unsecured website as well as adding warnings next to login credential boxes and credit card purchase forms. You can read that article by clicking here. In 2016, more than half of…
The holidays are quickly approaching, are you ready? Consumers are searching for business hours, directions, product availability, and the store’s address. After that Google search, studies show that 50% of consumers visit a local store within 1-day. How accurate is the information you are providing to your customers? Having accurate store hours and directions are…
The EU has fined the largest search engine provider with a $2.7 billion fine for rigging the search results to favor one of their own shopping comparison service over other companies. This is the largest fine ever imposed by EU regulators and could have been even larger since fine amounts are based on the…
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…
Google has announced that starting in 2017, users of the Google Chrome browser will be warned when accessing non-secure websites. The initial rollout will only mark websites unsafe if they utilize passwords or take customers’ credit card information without having a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) installed on the site. However, Google has said their long-term…
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.…
