The Quest for the Best (Long-tail Keyword) The Quest for the Best (Long-tail Keyword) Here are some facts on why long-tail keywords work and how to best go about finding them. Phoenix, AZ In the world of Search Engine Optimization(SEO), long-tail Keywords are all the rage and for good reason. If you manage to land [...]
Why Blog As Part of Your Marketing Plan Why Blog As Part of Your Marketing Plan? While many business owners understand how important a website is to their business, far fewer understand the value of a well maintained blog to their digital marketing success. Phoenix, AZ It was shown in studies by the Pew Research [...]
SEO For Landing Pages That You Can Actually Use Landing page advice is endless, and varied. Much of it centers on horrifyingly boring topic matter like "consider the user interaction flow and how it funnels" or "ask yourself how your audience might view this". Not that any of that is not valid, it is just [...]
How a CRM Can Help Your Social Media Strategy Social media has become an outstanding force for driving business activity in recent years - but managing social media for a company is no simple task. A social CRM can help turn your prospects into potential sales and clients while limiting the time you spend hunting [...]
8 Most Common Mistakes Companies Make When Doing Their Own SEO As a professional website design and search engine optimization company, we often work with clients to do SEO. A Mesa Arizona SEO company has many components with which it must work, and a key part of the program is content creation. While we do [...]
Website designed for an artist In Surprise, Arizona by My Favorite Web Designs This website is designed for an artist located in surprise, Arizona. She needed a website that had content management functionality so that she would be able to update her gallery as she completed new works of art. Being an older lady it [...]
Phoenix Business Website Design And SEO Project This website was designed and coded by hand by Joshua Jacoby, the owner of My Favorite Web Designs, a specialist in websites developed for mobile friendliness and user experience. Created for the owner of a small business in Phoenix Arizona this website is lightweight and efficient, using no [...]
A WordPress Website Designed And Developed With Woocommerce E-commerce Platform For a Gilbert Business Doing website design for companies that have e-commerce integrated into their website requires more consideration than simply designing a portfolio type site for a small business or promotional site for a new company that is forming. When designing for e-commerce, considerations [...]
Some Of Our Best New SEO Techniques From 2015 This is been a very interesting year for search engine optimization companies in Arizona. Many different changes in the way that Google's algorithm ranks websites have continued to force the technology of optimizing for that algorithm to evolve. Google has continued to focus on structured data [...]
Website Design Project for Amy Koch Presenting our latest AZ website design by My Favorite Web Designs, created for Realtor Amy Koch in Arizona. This website uses the flexmls idx plugin, and integrates plugin capabilities with customized and dynamic iframes for populating community and city pages with the appropriate listings. The site was designed with [...]
**********Update On This Post 10/10/15*********** So, Google has shut down helpouts. Never mind that it was an incredible place to exchange information, promoting cross cultural communication, learning and engagement. Or the fact that they only had it open about 1 year before announcing the shutdown. What a waste. I am actually a member of the [...]
Good Bye WP E-commerce, Hello Woocommerce! So, let me preface this article by saying that I have been amongst the most ardent of the WP E-commerce devotees. I was rooting for the team at Get Shopped when they had issues going into WP E-commerce versions 3, 3.3, 3.5, 3.7, 3.8 and beyond. It seemed like [...]
You answered this question on 02/25/14 Rating: Knowledgeability Clarity of Response Politeness Nomination? 10 10 10 No Comment: I asked many questions and Joshua answered each one thoroughly and promptly. Questioner: Al Category: Wordpress Private: No Subject: Wordpress Questions For A DIY HTMLer. Question: QUESTION: I'm planning to use wp to create a [...]
Wordpress Web Design for Depoy Studios in Phoenix This photographer needed a website designed to match her brand. It needed a dark color, so as to emphasize the vivid color in the pictures. the website had to be built on a content management system that was both user friendly and easy to optimize for search [...]
Chandler Search Engine Optimization By My Favorite Web Designs Chandler is an incredibly fast growing city located near Phoenix Arizona. When I first started my business in 2009, many of the companies and homes that are now in South Chandler were just beginning to look in that direction. And there are plenty of reasons to [...]
Designing and Crafting A Site For A Craftsman Ted Miller is not your ordinary pool builder. He has been doing high end custom reflecting pools and negative edge pools for over a decade, and some of his work adorns the highest end home in Arizona. Likewise, he needed a website designer that could put together [...]
AZ Photography Services by My Favorite Web Designs Video Transcript Joshua Jacoby of My Favorite Web Designs: "My Favorite Web Designs also offers photography. Photography is very necessary for any online marketing program because it helps to illustrate the points being made in blog posts and other content. In fact, the photography that goes with [...]
My Favorite Web Designs Approach To Design and Development Video Transcript "Hello, this is Josh with 'My Favorite Web Designs' of Mesa, Arizona. And I wanted to talk to you today about our design process. One of the questions that we frequently get asked is, what is the process for a new website or a [...]
SEO Tips For The Hummingbird Algorithm Update So, Thursday September 26th, Google has revealed the fact that a new algorithm has been running for a month. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24292897 For people not in the industry, you may wonder why there had not been more guessing or supposition from the SEO community. As one of the search engine [...]
The Bornmann Law Group Web Design Project The Bornmann Law Group WordPress website was designed by My Favorite Web Designs using HTML CSS and PHP to create a custom theme for this law group's internet presence. Custom wordpress themes are terrific for developing small business web sites because they are easily managed by the employees [...]
Hess Flying School Website Project This website was done for Mark Hess, a flight instructor in Mesa Arizona. Mark opened a business focused on teaching aspiring pilots, due to his own successes with flying and his love of the topic. He knew he would need a website to help promote his business, so Mark turned [...]
Cadiente Plumbing Website Project Service industry professionals need websites that are able to accommodate their new projects and showcase their new offerings. Wordpress is an ideal medium to design such a site, as it has terrific SEO properties and lends itself extremely well to a search optimization program designed by My Favorite Web Designs. The [...]
Adrianna's Cleaning Service This Mesa cleaning business needed a website that showcased their commitment to their service and inspired confidence in their customers. It needed to have a feminine design, and be well suited for galleries, so that it could be configured to display pictures from the many AZ clients they service. Internet marketing was [...]
Josh Jacoby Discusses SEO Services in Phoenix Locations that we service Today we look on video at the differences in services offered by My Favorite Web Designs, such as the packages for SEO and how we deliver that service specifically. My Favorite Web Designs provides web design and search engine optimization services in the following [...]
New Types of Social Media Accounts Video Transcript Josh Jacoby, My Favorite Web Designs: My Favorite Web Designs is a Mesa, Arizona web design and search engine optimization company. We were founded three years ago in 2009. We've done over a hundred WordPress websites and we perform search engine optimization for dozens of clients around [...]
Recommendations When Making A YouTube Video Video is an Effective Marketing Strategy Adding a YouTube video to your site is a highly effective marketing strategy for search engine optimization because search engines love video content. Keywords in your video will rank higher on major search engines and video is often listed in the top results [...]
Social Media For Business There are now over a billion Facebook accounts. Does that mean that your business should be on Facebook? I think so. I recommend Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Twitter and Pinterest and I have accounts there (and elsewhere) for myself personally and for my business. I don’t use Social Media with the expectation [...]
Microdata and Other Advantages of Designer and Developers in SEO Video Transcription
Why Is Wordpress So Awesome? Video Transcription Joshua Jacoby, Wordpress Web Designer: "My Favorite Web Designs is a Mesa Arizona Web Design and Search Engine Optimization company. We specialize in WordPress because it's the most awesome platform there is. If there was a better platform, we would specialize in that. But there's not, it's WordPress. [...]
Elite Builders Elite Builders is a custom home building company in Colorado that needed a website. The owner, Joshua Hector, is a friend of mine from my days as the marketing director of Capuzzo Construction, and he turned to me for a web design for his business by MFWD. I designed the site in HTML [...]
Cyber Coverage, It’s A Whole New World There was a time, in fact not quite that long ago, most business was conducted with a storefront, a telephone with several 800 lines to take orders and if you wanted to expand to another market, you opened another storefront and started the whole process over. My have [...]
3 Types Of WordPress Plugins That Can Harm Your Search Engine Rankings WordPress plugins can be the best thing you ever add to a blog, or they can completely destroy your blog or website. Here we are some of the common mistakes that are made in configuring plugins:
Neil asks: Why Should Hosting Be Optimized For Wordpress Websites? Hey Neil, Wordpress.com does not do standard hosting: http://vip.wordpress.com/our-services/#hosting they are very expensive. You should also never use their free service, as those things are deleted regularly. Self hosted wordpress sites are usually hosted on one of the big shared hosting companies - hostgator, bluehost, [...]
5 Very Actionable Tips For SEO You Don't Hear A Lot But Really Should 1. NOT YO MAMA's SITEMAPS Make sure, in addition to submitting a sitemap, you also submit a video sitemap, post sitemap, pages sitemap, sitemapindex, images sitemap, and a gzip formatted sitemap. If you use Wordpress this is easy, if you don't [...]
Search Engine Optimization For Roofers As a local SEO company in Arizona, we have many small business contracting outfits, and with microbursts and monsoons, Arizona is a popular place for the roofing trade. One of the lessons we have learned in doing optimization in the era of SEO penalties such penguin and panda, is to [...]
URGENT UPDATE!!! ATTENTION WORDPRESS 3.5 USERS AND POTENTIAL USERS - WP 3.5 Does not break the redirection plugin! Did you see this??? Missing argument 2 for wpdb::prepare(), called in Evidently, redirection must be using it, it seems to have affected that plugin, so if your site is dependent on that, verify this when upgrading. There [...]
Wordpress Website Design For Malibu Pool Service And Supply Company This website was built in the same manner as many of my sites, with a few unique design tweaks. As My Favorite Web Designs was also hired to do search engine optimization for this site, I was able to incorporate my keyword choices into my [...]
More Than One Facebook Per Company? The Advantages Of Consistent Branding With Social Media It may be most advantageous to do one facebook for the following reason: Lets say someone get 5000 fans. Lets say those 5000 people each has 100 friends, so now your reach is to half a million people on the social [...]
The Exact Match Domain Penalty - The EMD Penalty On Septemper 28th, 2012, Google rolled out a new penalty. The stated target of the penalty was exact match domains, particularly lower quality websites created for the purpose of targeting specific keywords. Google's contention is that these sites represent unnatural search results, and that they are [...]
This website was designed by My Favorite Web Designs for a direct tv retailer in Mesa, Arizona this business needed a website that was able to showcase its products and was search engine friendly. The graphical aspect of the job was also quite demanding. the customer required that the graphics be at or near the [...]
Web Design And SEO For A Queen Creek Business Malibu pool service is the local East Valley Arizona full service company. They do service and repair and they needed a website to tell the public about it. to give a little back story on the company, I first started working with the owner, Kevin, about [...]
AZ Family Law Lawyer This project was fun - My Favorite Web Designs designed slightly larger than usual, and used photos I have personally taken near my home in Mesa Arizona with my Nikon D5100. I incorporated a slideshow, added a sweet contact form over the slideshow and in the sidebar, all done with CSS, [...]
This is 1 of the first web sites that I ever did. It was made using HTML CSS JavaScript and PHP. This was a cool project, it really was fun. We used pics from the houses he had built and used custom photo filters to make it look like a three dimensional sketch. We used [...]
This high end audio company needed a wordpress website in order that their dealers would have the ability to login to a dealer Administration area. This was particularly challenging as the company was managing 100 of dealers in almost every state. originally, the company had built their website on the Joomla platform. Unfortunately as has [...]
Website Designed For Commercial Contractor NCIC is a coatings contractor in Arizona that does industrial and commercial coatings for mines and other structures that need coating or reinforcement. They need it is simple website that could showcase there construction talents and show some pictures of the coatings project that they have done we design this [...]
This website was designed for a small business in Mesa Arizona that specializes in taking care of a loved ones final resting place. The business was just launching and needed a brand and an internet presence. We designed the website in WordPress so that it would be scaleable for expansion later on. It also allowed [...]
ClinicaReal in Arizona ClinicaReal is a local Arizona chiropractic office run by doctor Keith stone. Doctor Stone has been a chiropractor in Arizona for over 20 years. Their business had an outdated website that needed to be revamped for search friendliness and easy transition between the Spanish and English versions of the website. Creating a [...]
Energy Roofers - A Northern Arizona Roofing Company Energy roofers is a roofing contractor in northern Arizona that does residential and commercial roofing. They needed a website to showcase their work and bring in new clients from the web. Many contractors need a website which they can add new projects and new photographs easily and [...]
This is 1 of the first website ever built using jQuery PHP in HTML it actually does not use the wordpress content management system, though if I were to design it again today it would. it does employ some search engine characteristics including accessibility tags and title tags for images and links It also has [...]
This website was built for thin blue line car service, an Arizona car service. This company started from scratch with a brand new domain we advised them purchase, and brand new social media accounts including a brand new Facebook. this is 1 of the sites that I did a custom photo shoot for in order [...]
This website was actually one of my favorite web sites to design and build as we were able to use my photography and a beautiful color scheme with grunge touches. I was also able to integrate the contact form into the header. The layout is clean and crisp, drawing attention just where the attention should [...]
Budget My Build Budget my build is a website 4 people looking to get cost on their upcoming construction projects. It gives users the ability to login and to register for the site. This is a tremendous way to build a community of users The site integrates social media very heavily as it does the [...]
Americare Hospice This is a project done for a local Mesa Arizona business. We love doing projects for local small businesses since we see these website design customers over and over again and out about around town. This hospice needed a website that could convey a comforting message and a confident one to their potential [...]
DiMino Enterprises in Las Vegas Nevada Rock n Roll legend Frank Dimimo needed a website and we were more than happy to oblige. We were given the order to make it fresh and funky, use our imagination, which I love to do!
The Bridge Church in Gilbert Arizona This was the Chandler Arizona Baptist Church that needed a website designed to showcase their church and the work that they do in the community. It was a simple WordPress site, with a few special grouches. It used a query slideshow across the main banner as well as a [...]
Woodland Custom Beam Company Woodland custom beam company required an AZ website design that allowed them to prominently showcase their product, educate the consumer on what the product was and how it was made, and allow the consumer to purchase a sample of the product at the end. Because it required a purchase of the [...]
The Bornmann Law Group
This website design was done for a Mesa, Arizona roofing contractor by My Favorite Web Designs. Unfortunately, the contractor ended up going with a different site, but I think this was clearly a superior design. check it out and decide for yourself! The original was done in wordpress, and had account logins and a content [...]
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Website Designed For Gunderson, Denton & Peterson of Mesa, Arizona Gunderson, Denton & Peterson is a law firm in Mesa, Arizona handling legal issues such as immigration, business, litigation, franchise, estate and many other areas of law. The Firm has 6 lawyers, whom are all featured with bio pages on the website. In addition to [...]
This web design and seo project was performed for a Glendale, Arizona AC contractor by My Favorite Web designs. I designed everything personally including the logo and the slideshow, and built out the website in wordpress. For anyone with any lingering doubts about the effectiveness of the wordpress as an SEO platform, I submit for [...]
How To Do Local SEO In Mesa Arizona All Mesa SEO rests on the quality of the content. Whatever your site, whomever your target audience, the quality, originality and presentation of your content will determine your visibility. This is not as simple as writing original content, though that is part of it. Much more significant [...]
Insuring Web Design Businesses With Arizona Professional Liability Insurance Arizona Professional Liability Insurance Building a web design business from the ground up is indeed an accomplishment. But is it enough to ascertain the success and financial soundness of the enterprise? Without a professional liability insurance plan from an authorized and trustworthy Arizona based insurer, a [...]
The Top 5 Things A SEO Company Needs An Awesome Website Company To Do In the new world of Arizona search engine optimization, there are many techniques that only a web design professional can take advantage of. Here are the top 5 things most SEO companies do not do, due to the lack of web [...]
The Importance of Arizona Website Design and Search Engine Optimization Businesses based in Arizona are likely looking towards the internet as the source of their future advertising campaigns. At the core of any such campaign will be a well-crafted website that potential customers will find in the search engine rankings. Bland and dull websites won't [...]
WPEC wordpress e-commerce bug found and fixed So, I needed to import 2300 products to the cart. No surprise, the packaged importer just kept saying setting saved, but never actually imported anything. So, I went and purchased the deluxe product importer from Visser labs, I like them, Good community minded developers. The deluxe importer also [...]
Arizona Search Engine Optimization Search Engine Optimization, also know as SEO, is an extremely important aspect in helping your website be found in the popular search engines by potential clients, using Key Words! A Key Word can be any word that is relevant to what you are talking about in your post, as well as [...]
Professional Arizona Web Development and Search Engine Optimization While anyone can know and understand HTML and ama coding, a professional graphic designer is necessary to build your website or blog site at it's full potential, offering a tasteful looking, quality website Design, that is easy to navigate for yourself and your clients, as well as [...]
Wordpress E-commerce Website Design Designing Websites For Selling Online With Wordpress The Wordpress E-commerce Client This website design and development was done for a customer in Apache Junction, who also has a location in Seattle, Washington. The customer makes storage beds, hidden beds, wall beds and DIY kits for beds. He previously had an online [...]
Another Wordpress website by Joshua Jacoby, owner of My Favorite Web Designs. A professional wordpress designer knows the value of an easy content management system, and this Arizona web designer is no exception. Featuring dynamic updating testimonials, smooth slider for the front page, it has elements of Jquery, HTML, PHP and more. If anyone needs [...]
This website started as a fully functioning volusion shopping cart template. My changes were not gigantic, but then again, they were. First, I needed to add Jquery support to the Volusion template, without violating HTTPS. I also needed to bring all my images onto their server, for security. I designed the slide images and the [...]
Arizona Wordpress Designer Custom Wordpress Sites Provide SEO Advantages Converting A Website To Wordpress For SEO Benefit As an Arizona WordPress Designer, I often run into situations where a site can be optimized in HTML, but if we are doing an ongoing SEO campaign, the cost benefit of running on a WordPress core increases dramatically. [...]
This website had an interesting need that required thinking outside the box in order to solve. The website was a standard wordpress build but the client had a very unique request. They had a movie they wanted to play on a loop, but they wanted the first part to play the first time and not [...]
This website started as a Wordpress site design, a free download. The customer had a few needs for modifying and setting up the template, which was no problem for My Favorite Web Designs chief designer and developer, Joshua Jacoby. Josh has modified countless templates, and understands creating a web template that works for CMS. The [...]
I recently designed and donated a website for a two year old girl who is battling cancer. If you would like to donate towards her medical fund, you can do so through the website or her parents have set up a trust fund at Wells Fargo bank called the “Abigail Goss Medical Trust”. All of [...]
A cool website design, done for a private detective in Scottsdale, Arizona who does surveillance and other investigation activities. Uses pretty standard features, including the cool custom background, a widgetized sidebar, social media links, and the content boxes are made using CSS3, which just started becoming OK to do, now that over 96% of regular [...]
The Law Offices of Fife & Cesta This Mesa Arizona Bankruptcy Attorney contacted My Favorite Web Designs for help with their SEO. One thing I noticed when working with their site was that the WordPress theme was circa 2006, and not compatible with most of today's awesome WordPress plugins. We built a brand new design, [...]
I did this website for the Founder of the Asperger Parent Network, who is just a lovely person and really a force for good in the community. We needed a platform that was content managed, a website that we could add events to without the help of a web designer, A really solid basis to [...]
Website Designed For Insurance Broker In Scottsdale / Phoenix Designing a website for an insurance agent has many of the same requirements as creating a web presence for any other type of company. Insurance agents to educate their clientele about their products, much the same as a car mechanic might educate a client about their [...]
Custom Website Designed And Developed On The Wordpress Plaftom For Arizona Roof Rescue This website was designed and developed for Arizona Roof Rescue by My Favorite Web Designs of Mesa, AZ. We created the graphics from scratch in Adobe Photoshop, and then sent the customer the proof for approval, at which point we built it [...]
A law firm headquartered out of Peoria Arizona, the bankruptcy office also has a location in Mesa. They needed a rush wordpress website design in Arizona, and located My Favorite Web Designs to help. I personally set the site up on a Wordpress theme, since they needed a site that would also be SEO friendly. [...]
This custom Wordpress website was built for Ken Risley, owner of the Engineer Designer. Ken uses the very popular Thesis theme for his content management, which is really a nice CMS system. I personally prefer to design and code my own CMS features, but if you are OK with something a little more out of [...]
Wordpress Website Search Optimization While My Favorite Web Designs can do optimization on any kind of website, there are very clear and distinct advantages to doing optimization on a Wordpress platform. Be warned the data presented here is of a more technical nature. I do not expect every client will want to read it, but [...]
Bankruptcy Attorney SEO For Fife Cesta Law, PLC Search Engine Otpimization On A Bankruptcy Website In Arizona One of the biggest challenges with legal website is garnering trust from search engines. The legal field, due to the often excessive profits that can be generated per click, has been the target of far more than the [...]
My Favorite Web Designs rebuilt a search engine friendly website for PJO Insurance Brokerage and we perform monthly seo services for PJO Insurance Brokerage. Before we started the monthly seo services for PJO, they were not found on the first 100 listings on google. During their first month of searh engine optimization in Phoenix, we [...]
Buddypress social networking site, running on a wordpress core. Has a custom rating system, user accounts, avatars, profile pages, friends requests, groups, posting from the front end, sort by popular, date, author, etc... Also features a Jquery slider, added by this web designer to enable the site owner to sell ad space. Website Design and Development by Joshua Jacoby of Mesa Arizona, Owner of My Favorite Web Designs.
A Wordpress website designed for a local Mesa, Arizona E-tailer, e-marketing hCG diet products. The site features E-commerce, Slideshows, CMS, significant search potential and a kick ass attractive CSS design. Web development, graphic design and build out by web designer Joshua Jacoby of Mesa Arizona. As always, all work is done in house, no outsourcing, ever.
A sports blog utilizing a modified Wordpress theme and graphics by Joshua Jacoby of My Favorite Web Designs. The site was developed for a Scottsdale Arizona web design client. It features a fluid design, slideshow using Jquery, and a store selling t-shirts for the sporting events the site is actively promoting. The writer makes his profit via advertisements on the site, which I implemented for him. The site also has several SEO friendly features active, including syndication.
A custom Wordpress theme, designed on top of the Thesis Wordpress theme. Custom Wordpress websites, where in the blogging platform is utilized as a CMS, are all the rage due to their almost unfair advantage over other websites in the search engines. Wordpress websites present owners with the unique ability to easily add SEO friendly content, and automate many of the more time consuming parts of optimizing a website for search/
Our Mesa, Arizona Website design company did this for a Tempe, Arizona ASU student. The idea of the site is to sell advertising by the pixel, and so far it has done very well and performed above expectations. The checkout is done through Paypal, which integrated into the customized, open source PHP script on which the site runs. In addition to pixel purchasing capabilities, the site also has a blog section, which supports basic media integration and html code.
JA Drafting and Design needed a custom website that could effectively communicate with their customers. John needed a dynamic custom website that could easily be updated to reflect the latest design projects, FAQs, and other data his customers might need. The ideal website would be designed on a Wordpress platform, as a CMS. SEO friendly, designed with an intelligent data architecture, this custom website is perfectly poised to take advantage of our SEO service!
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Natural Choice Clinic located in Mesa, Arizona. This naturopathic clinic does cutting edge work with patients using non invasive or destructive holistic methods, and they needed a web design that reflected that. Their results are spectacular, and we are going to help them show this to the world. I created and awesome SEO friendly design with lots of goodies, and am beginning the SEO package shortly. This site has an automatically configured program which tracks keywords in the search engines, and checks their rank every few days, keeping an graph. Pretty neat!
Jquery website design for an east coast client, uses Jquery heavily to scroll the web pages left to right, with a jquery animation. Jquery is actually a library of javascript, and thus is extremely compatible and lightweight. The website loads lighting fast, under 200k.
Website designed for a Scottsdale Arizona Mechanic shop. This web design was built on Wordpress, and features a dynamic testimonials for that feeds to a database. The website also has advantages for Scottsdale Arizona, as its address was coded using rich snippets to make the website more easily accessible to Google maps, and thus garner more of the local Scottsdale Arizona Web traffic. It also features custom web graphics and contact form. A very basic site, this was a very inexpensive site to build.
Scottsdale and Phoenix drafting professional website. This site is due to be rebuilt by mid April, and SEO will commence in May.