SM Marketing is keeping companies a wake at night!

Use Social Media technologies to market your website. Turn communication into an interactive dialogue between your business and the rest of the world. How can social media marketing improve your business? Social media marketing is a process of gaining traffic and attention through social media sites to engage the consumers about your products and services. The companies that do well in social media marketing are the ones who contribute stories that the social community appreciates Social Media Marketing is NOT your traditional advertising network and companies that don't get this are most likely going to fail at social marketing.  You need to understand that not all goals can be profit oriented and that turning spontaneous viewers into legions of loyal followers can have an impact on your companies longevity. Successful social media marketing means creating a trustful relationship with your audience and contributing a myriad of interesting "sticky" messages. What is a sticky message? An interesting one that keeps the viewer sticking around for more! For example a social media article with “Why You Should Buy My Social Media Marketing Books” is dull and may not be considered sticky. It is not especially interesting or even an exciting title.  But maybe "SM & M is the new business love link!" or "SM Marketing is keeping companies a wake at night". Social Media Marketing is a commitment and requires a minimum of at least 15 - 30 minutes a day of your time per social media. So what social media markets are available?  There are many social medias available. Here are just a few to take a look at. Facebook Giving people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. Twitter Twitter is a real-time information network that connects you to the latest information about what you find interesting. Simply find the public streams you find most compelling and follow the conversations. Digg Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our community. Diigo Diigo Groups provides a ground-breaking collaborative research and learning tool that allows any group of people to pool their findings through group bookmarks, highlights, sticky notes, and forum. Delicious With Delicious you save, stack and share the web. Instantly save your favorite links, collect your discoveries in stacks, share what you find, and dig deeper into your favorite topics. A stack is a collection of links built around a common theme. Blinklist Never Lose a Cool Web Page Again Easily view your links from any computer and save a copy offline. Find Any of Your Links in 0.18 Seconds or Faster Links are automatically organized and searched faster than Google. Easily Share Your Links with Others While browsing, you can save and share links in one click. StumbleUpon StumbleUpon helps you discover interesting web pages, photos and videos recommended by friends and like-minded people, wherever you are. Visit www.pccgraphics.com Let us design your website. We've got your backend covered! We are also here for your country style website design too. We design beautiful websites inside and out for professional business & the arts and crafts industry!

What does country style graphics mean to you?

Most dictionaries state that country style means rural living in characteristic of farming or country life. These are just a few words that express country style to me: rustic, homemade, casual, cozy, cheerful, simple, charming, and homespun. Country style graphics bring to mind country picket fences, wicker baskets, drying flowers, candles, rocking chairs, old country cupboards, homespun quilts, plaids, checks, teddy bears, dolls, farm scenes, country scenes, shaker houses, angels, hearts, stars, and so much more. Most country style graphic artists bring country elements of primitive, Americana, rustic, shaker, shabby chic, French style, English style, etc. into the making of their graphics. Thru the years I have found that each country has it's own appealing style when it comes to creating country style graphics. It is hard to put into words all the different country style graphics that are available to us online. I have been a country style graphic artist for over seventeen years and I am inclined to make muted and darker colored country graphics mixed with the primitive look. I love creating country graphics that depict country living and country crafting. To me country style homespun inspires me in the making of my country graphics. What is your ideal vision of country style graphics?  "The only way to grow competently is to share knowledge."  Kind regards, JP COUNTRY GRAPHICS COMMENTS COUNTRY GRAPHICS www.CountryGraphics.BIZ Phone: 618-585-3634

Search Engine Optimization = SEO "The SEO Waltz"

Search Engine Optimization = SEO SEO FUNDAMENTALS - EASY TO UNDERSTAND SEO GUIDELINES CHAPTER 1 - THE SEO WALTZ by CountryGraphics.BIZ There is a considerable amount of support available on SEO. It can consume your time and you can spend somewhere between hundreds to thousands of dollars on SEO consultants. I have put together a few easy to understand SEO fundamental guidelines. The good thing is that you can do fundamental SEO work that will increase the traffic flow to your website pages. Search engines fetch free traffic to all sites, but most sites are not optimized to take advantage of this free service. Stick to the fundamental SEO steps provided in this article, and you'll be on your way to increased traffic to your website's pages. PAGE ACCESSIBILITY It is crucial that every page have a unique URL. Do not use drop down flash menus for your navigation, the search engines can't read them. Do not use the new CSS drop down menus at this time, you could be scrutinized as a spammer. JavaScript should only be used for enhancement and not a requirement for the page to display important subject matter information. THE TITLE META TAG & HEADING 1 TAG MUST WORK WITH ONE ANOTHER The page title is the headline in search results, the title words must reflect the page's content. It is useless to have redundant titles and non descriptive wording in the title tag. The page title meta tag is the most essential element on your pages. This wording appears in the browser's tile bar. There are different beliefs on the amount of characters one should use in a title tag. Major search engines generate from 65 - 70 characters in the headline search results, but the major search engine are always updating their title tag character guidelines. The title should begin with the key phrase subject matter, and can be followed by the name of the site. Always keep the subject matter as the main focus. Include as many keywords and keyword phrases as needed to describe the page's subject matter, but try to keep the characters down to 70. The title tag should be unique for each page on your site, it is essential to reflect the wording that is in the h1 Header Tag /h1 of each page. The requisite here is to insure the title tag and the headerh1tag, must use the same keyword phrases that describes the page's subject matter. Making sure this step is taken, will reinforce better search engine results and more traffic to your site. The h1 to h6 tags are used to define HTML headings. h1 defines the most important heading. h6 defines the least important heading. Your h1 tag  should contain keywords and keyword phrases that represent the pages main subject matter. The h1 tag should be the first words that describe your subject matter on each page. Common h1 tag mistakes are: the page has no h1 tag, the h1 tag is in p tags or other tags, h1 tags aren't explicit enough to describe the subject matter on the page. Make sure that your page begins with an h1 tag. The h1 tag does not need to be visually huge in the largest font. (See more about Tag descriptions at the bottom of page) THE META DESCRIPTION TAG The meta description tag meta name="DESCRIPTION" content=" YOUR DESCRIPTION HERE"  is also important. The description tag should be 150 characters long, because this is what fits into most major search engine listings. Characters over 150 are discarded or concealed. The description tag is an introduction that promotes your pages subject matter. The description tag should be written for your audience and not for the search engines. However, it is beneficial to include your targeted keywords, since the search engine will highlight them and this draws your audience to your search engine listing. THE KEYWORDS META TAG There are strong attitudes about the keywords meta tag. BE HAPPY DON'T WORRY is the main theme. Because of the immense abuse of meta keyword tags, the dominant search engine " Google" ignores them. Other search engines use them, but most SEO consultants theorize that you sacrifice little by ignoring them. I still use the keyword meta tags in my web design practices. I do not spam and I follow the old guidelines. We all agree at this point in time that the most important places to use your targeted keywords are in your page's title, h1, and body. SEO WALTZ CONCLUSION I call the above steps the SEO Waltz. If you follow the steps above with grace and balance it will bring you satisfaction and rewards. Do not word spam, be honest and use good judgment when creating the title and h1 tags. If you create first-class tags you will not be punished by the major search engines, but instead you will be rewarded with increased traffic to your site's pages. HTML TAG DESCRIPTIONS EXPLAINED The above tag descriptions p and body used in above statements are further explained here. Differences Between HTML and XHTML are none! p html tag: The p tag defines a paragraph.  The p  tag automatically creates space before and after itself. The space is automatically applied by the browser, or you can specify the amount of space in a style sheet. body html tag: The body tag defines the document's body. The body tag contains all the contents of an HTML document, such as text, hyperlinks, images, tables, lists, etc. HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, is the language used to build web pages PARSABLE means able to be parsed. The word "parse" means to analyze an object specifically. It simple terms it's a method of reading code and delivering it to the web server in a readable format. META TAGS OR METADATA IS INFORMATION ABOUT DATA The < meta > tag provides metadata about the HTML document. Metadata will not be displayed on the page, but will be machine parsable. Meta elements are typically used to specify page description, keywords, author of the document, last modified, and other metadata. The < meta > tag always goes inside the head element. The metadata can be used by browsers (how to display content or reload page), search engines (keywords), or other web services. To learn more about html visit http://www.w3schools.com Don't have the time to do your own SEO PCC Website Design and we will quote you a price Phone: 618-585-3634    Kiss Web Design "The only way to grow competently is to share knowledge."  Kind regards, JP COUNTRY GRAPHICS COMMENTS COUNTRY GRAPHICS www.CountryGraphics.BIZ