Home Salt River Graphics is a full service web developer with a concentration on SEO, SEM and Google Analytics /component/content/frontpage 2010-09-09T00:42:49Z Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management SEO with SRG 2008-12-28T20:34:25Z 2008-12-28T20:34:25Z /news/1-seo-saltrivergraphics <p align="justify"><strong>What is Search Engine Optimization?</strong></p><p align="justify">Simply put, it's optimizing your website to come out on the top of the lists of the major search engines when people search for something you provide. Whether it's information, products or services you provide the public, you want to increase your visibility. Good SEO dramatically increases traffic on your website and is much more cost efficient than traditional advertising. Even if you don't sell anything on your website, brand recognition alone makes SEO a smart business decision.</p><p align="justify"><strong>How Does SRG Do SEO?</strong></p><p align="justify">The first thing that needs to be established is the target audience. Narrowing your target audience is a necessary step to make sure you are seen on the top of a very long list. Different sections or pages of your website can focus on different target audiences so there is no need to try to reach everybody with every page.</p><p align="justify">The second part is finding your keywords. Once we have established your target audience(s) and have some idea what they might find useful about your website, we can build your keyword list. When we have our list, we start checking out your competition...who's currently on, or near the top of the lists. </p><p align="justify">The next few things that we do depends in large part on the mission of the website. Whether it's commercial, informational or personal, dictates a great deal of the process. Plus I don't want to give away any trade secrets.</p><p align="justify"><strong>Do You Have An Example of SRG SEO?</strong></p><p align="justify">Search for these on your favorite search engine:</p><p align="justify">burlington vt restaurants, burlington vt dining, brattleboro vt dining, montpelier vt restaurants, etc...</p><p align="justify">You most likely saw HungryVT.com and HungryBurlington.com on top or near the top.</p><p align="justify">Here you can see HungryVT.com is on top for Vermont Restaurants.... </p><p align="justify"> <img src="images/stories/services/google_no_1_300.gif" border="0" title="Number 1 on Google" /></p><p align="justify">&nbsp;</p><h2>With Salt River Graphic's help, you could also be <a href="http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=the+top+SERP+ranking+in+burlington+vt+on+google&btnG=Google+Search" target="_blank">the top SERP ranking in burlington vt on google</a></h2> <p align="justify"><strong>What is Search Engine Optimization?</strong></p><p align="justify">Simply put, it's optimizing your website to come out on the top of the lists of the major search engines when people search for something you provide. Whether it's information, products or services you provide the public, you want to increase your visibility. Good SEO dramatically increases traffic on your website and is much more cost efficient than traditional advertising. Even if you don't sell anything on your website, brand recognition alone makes SEO a smart business decision.</p><p align="justify"><strong>How Does SRG Do SEO?</strong></p><p align="justify">The first thing that needs to be established is the target audience. Narrowing your target audience is a necessary step to make sure you are seen on the top of a very long list. Different sections or pages of your website can focus on different target audiences so there is no need to try to reach everybody with every page.</p><p align="justify">The second part is finding your keywords. Once we have established your target audience(s) and have some idea what they might find useful about your website, we can build your keyword list. When we have our list, we start checking out your competition...who's currently on, or near the top of the lists. </p><p align="justify">The next few things that we do depends in large part on the mission of the website. Whether it's commercial, informational or personal, dictates a great deal of the process. Plus I don't want to give away any trade secrets.</p><p align="justify"><strong>Do You Have An Example of SRG SEO?</strong></p><p align="justify">Search for these on your favorite search engine:</p><p align="justify">burlington vt restaurants, burlington vt dining, brattleboro vt dining, montpelier vt restaurants, etc...</p><p align="justify">You most likely saw HungryVT.com and HungryBurlington.com on top or near the top.</p><p align="justify">Here you can see HungryVT.com is on top for Vermont Restaurants.... </p><p align="justify"> <img src="images/stories/services/google_no_1_300.gif" border="0" title="Number 1 on Google" /></p><p align="justify">&nbsp;</p><h2>With Salt River Graphic's help, you could also be <a href="http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=the+top+SERP+ranking+in+burlington+vt+on+google&btnG=Google+Search" target="_blank">the top SERP ranking in burlington vt on google</a></h2> Using Google Sites for Project Management 2010-05-27T00:44:40Z 2010-05-27T00:44:40Z /tutorials/8-tutorials/15-using-google-sites-for-project-management <p><i>In this tutorial, I am writing with the following hosting and registrar configuration: registrar is for domain registration only. Hosting provider is where I have control over my email (MX Records) and domain redirection (CNAME Records). I use GoDaddy as a registrar and Bluehost for hosting (though this also applies to HostGator).</i></p> <h2>History</h2> <p>Google Apps have been around a while, and we've seen more than a few of these "apps" come and go, like Orkut. The mainstays have survived the test of time and been improved upon to the point where they are becoming indispensable, at least to me. First, of course, is Gmail. While you might not think of it as one of the Google apps, it is indeed an application, albeit a common one. There are several web based email applications to choose from (Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, etc.), and some may have better features than Gmail, but these are not part of a suite of applications, and therefore not integrated.</p> <p>Google Docs has been part of the Google Apps family since 2007, and has slowly developed into a fairly robust word processor. While it lacks some of the more dynamic features of Microsoft Word, its cloud based nature has made it far more useful for collaboration. The ability to share documents online is something Microsoft has only very recently begun to mimic.</p> <p><i>In this tutorial, I am writing with the following hosting and registrar configuration: registrar is for domain registration only. Hosting provider is where I have control over my email (MX Records) and domain redirection (CNAME Records). I use GoDaddy as a registrar and Bluehost for hosting (though this also applies to HostGator).</i></p> <h2>History</h2> <p>Google Apps have been around a while, and we've seen more than a few of these "apps" come and go, like Orkut. The mainstays have survived the test of time and been improved upon to the point where they are becoming indispensable, at least to me. First, of course, is Gmail. While you might not think of it as one of the Google apps, it is indeed an application, albeit a common one. There are several web based email applications to choose from (Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, etc.), and some may have better features than Gmail, but these are not part of a suite of applications, and therefore not integrated.</p> <p>Google Docs has been part of the Google Apps family since 2007, and has slowly developed into a fairly robust word processor. While it lacks some of the more dynamic features of Microsoft Word, its cloud based nature has made it far more useful for collaboration. The ability to share documents online is something Microsoft has only very recently begun to mimic.</p>