July 2009 Newsletter

Since 2002, VBWebSites has been working with the small business sector. We pride ourselves in helping businesses succeed. We have been on the front line of the ever changing web to ensure we stay on top of the World Wide Web in order to deliver the best possible presence to our clients and their customers.

Over the years, a huge trend for clients having the need and desire for custom content management solutions has been a fun task as we deliver precisely what our clients need so they have the ability to maintain their own sites. Every site is unique. We develop each solution custom. Learn More

e-Commerce and the opportunities to sell on the web. Attract + Convert = Growth, Expand Your Market, Versatility and Freedom. e-Commerce sales will experience double digit percentage growth in the coming years.

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Video as a doorway to your website

With Google giving more and more attention to video in the search results one can really gain a good deal of traffic by utilizing video search engine optimization. I stress the word “optimized videos” because its not just about uploading videos to YouTube and other sites. Its about making sure that the videos are tagged with the right keywords in the right places for the search engines to pick up and drive relevant traffic to your website.

Here are some tips for optimizing videos on your own site. Take the source video file and infuse it with your keywords; in the Title, Description, and Keywords tags. Make sure your video is the main feature on a page and surround it with relevant text and embedded links.

Syndicating your Store

Getting your store on the web is a task. Once your site is up, you need to be able to get your items everywhere possible to achieve better traffic and more sales.

Google Base is an online tool that allows your store to be syndicated. We launched a new Hardware and Tools website for Harper Hardware of Richmond, VA. Once we published the website, we syndicated 20,000 of their items to Google Base. Look HERE. Google Base equates to almost half their traffic.

Google Base is a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content, which will be made searchable on Google. You can describe any item you post with attributes, which will help people find it when they do related searches.