Cal Coast Web Design’s employees work hard all year to develop and execute your SEO marketing plans. With all they do throughout the year, Cal Coast encourages our employees to take time to enjoy their families during this holiday season. In observance of the upcoming holidays, Cal Coast Web Design will be closed from December 19 – January 2 in order to allow our employees a well deserved vacation.

Voicemail boxes will be checked once per week during this hiatus and any call that is not an emergency will be handled upon our return. If you are a Cal Coast hosting or domain client and experience a domain and/or hosting emergency, please contact 480-624-2500 for 24/7 support. Non-Cal Coast domain and hosting clients experiencing issues will need to contact your hosting or domain company for assistance.

If you are an Advanced Access client looking for support, please contact 866-518-1571 during business hours for website technical support.

We wish each and every one of you a joyous holiday season and are truly thankful for your continued business. Here’s to a safe and prosperous 2008!

SEO News

While it’s true that new websites have a much harder time achieving the same rankings as their more seasoned counterparts, deciding not to pursue a SEO marketing plan to fight the uphill battle can be a huge mistake. In a recent article by Scott Buresh, CEO of SEO giant Medium Blue, this issue is discussed and readers can find great information and insight on the topic.

Since the first step in overcoming new website disadvantages in the world of SEO marketing is understanding why it happens, Buresh breaks down the various reasons why older websites have an advantage. In addition, the article offers great tips for overcoming the SEO challenges new websites face and provides step-by-step instructions for making your new website’s SEO plan really count.

If you have a new website you are creating or just want to know more tricks-of-the-trade, you’ll want to read the article in its entirety here.


Tip of the Month

Nothing is better for your business then the perception that you’re the best at what you do. So how do you get potential customers to recognize you as an expert in your field? A great way is to blog on popular sites and forums. Yahoo! Answers, for example, is a great place to offer expert advice related to your field. Whether you’re a realtor, web designer or photographer, you can search sites like Yahoo! Answers to find posts related to your industry. You can then offer expert advice along with links to your website.

Remember, there are tons of sites available that you can use to position yourself as an expert. Simply cruise the web, search on Google or Yahoo, or check out blogging sites to find great ways to promote yourself and your business. Or if you prefer, contact Cal Coast today at 888-281-7665 for assistance in blogging on popular sites.


Of Special Interest

It’s the holiday season, which means it’s that time of year to thank your employees, find out just what your clients are looking for next year, or just plain find out what your employees and clients are thinking in general. MediaBlend’s survey software, GoBuildASurvey, can be just the tool you need to gather the information you’re looking for. The software is easy to use and offers client surveys for products and services as well as employee satisfaction surveys.

MediaBlend’s GoBuildASurvey product can be customized to fit your unique needs and offers:

• One-time, periodic or ongoing surveys
• Flexible response patterns: Open-ended, rated or scaled, multiple choice or prioritized
• Online surveys distributed via E-mail
• Speed and simplicity in design with the respondent in mind - privacy insured
• Customized colors and header graphics to give you organizational branding

MediaBlend’s in-house marketing and statistics expertise can also assist you to develop survey topics and questions, interpret results, conduct action-plan training in response to data, and prepare press releases and other communications relative to findings. MediaBlend offers several types of reports to help you analyze the data collected using GoBuildAsurvey. Reports can by generated by:

• Participation rates
• Results by group
• Year-to-year or periodic comparison tables to help analyze changes
• Topic, location, and/or timetables
• Comments and open-ended questions report by groups or by topic.

For more information on MediaBlend’s GoBuildASurvey software, contact MediaBlend today at 888-286-4826.

From Our Clients

We love the website. Tell your girls thanks for their patience with getting our website done. We appreciate it.

Thanks!

Bonnie Peterson
The Purple Blossom - Orange County Wedding Florist

Happy SEOing!

Sincerely,

Cal Coast Web Design, Inc.
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