Social Media FTW Takeaways

FTW Organizers: Chrystie Corns (speaking), Jacia Kinsman and Rich Brooks (texting/checking in) The Hall Web Services marketing team headed over to Social Media FTW this week. A full day conference here in Portland, Maine on all things social media. It was great to mix and mingle with experts, designers, marketers and business owners as we…

Building Your Web Presence: Part 1

Yes, your website matters, it matters a whole lot. Your primary focus should be on ensuring that your site is designed to effectively drive and convert traffic as well as remain consistent with your brand. However, it’s time you also start thinking about your overall web presence. What’s Web Presence? Your web presence describes what…

What is My PageRank?

Google’s PageRank can play a role in how your website ranks for keywords in Google, so it makes sense to want to know what your site’s PageRank is.  However, if the word “PageRank” is a little fuzzy to you, let’s try to clear that up a bit. PageRank Doesn’t Mean Keyword Rankings Even though it…

Does Your Website Frustrate Visitors?

Have you ever been looking for something on a website and had trouble finding it? Or maybe you have had issues filling out what should be a simple form? I experienced both the other day while trying to place my engagement announcement in a couple of newspapers online. The first newspaper website was easy as…