Blog | Gravitate One - Part 17

Designing for Functionality

Before you start designing your website, you need to know what you want your customers to do. Your visitors didn’t come to your website to simply ooh and aah over ...

Good Design is Good Business

You probably know that your website, business cards, brochures, and even your product packaging needs to be well designed. But good design is more than just looking pretty. Good design ...

The Wonderful World of Words

Without a doubt, my favorite aspect of online marketing is the copy writing. Big surprise coming from the guy writing the blog, right? I love analyzing the way people use ...

How to be Good Looking, Intelligent, and Popular

What is the most important aspect of your website? Is it the code? The content? Layout and design? How about the color scheme? Number of cats-doing-people-things pictures? You probably knew ...

JavaScript: Patience, Google is Still Learning to Read

I’ve gone on and on lately about taking away some comforts for the sake of effective site analysis. There are some aspects of a good site analysis that you just ...

Googlebot! Engage!

One thing you have to remember about search engines is that they aren’t human. A web crawler sees your page completely differently than you do. In fact, they don’t really ...

Put Down the Cookies and Walk Away

Cookies are delicious. Whether you like them crunchy or soft, chocolate or fruity, somewhere there is a cookie that you just can’t turn down. But sometimes saying no is the ...

Recognizing Personalized Results

In my last post I talked a lot about personalized search results. It occurred to me that it would be nice to show you what I’m talking about. Enjoy these ...

Don’t Take it Personally…

Say you want to know how your site is performing. You search for a few of your keywords, and are delighted to find out you are dominating the top ten ...

Thriving in a Post-Penguin World

In the aftermath of the “Penguin” update released by Google earlier this year, some companies and their SEO agencies have struggled to recover from a drop in search rankings. But ...

Display Advertising: $50 Billion by 2015?

Less than a year ago Google predicted the future of Display Ads online. They made 7 specific predictions about it’s growth and potential in a IAB MIXX keynote address. What ...

Web Developer Extension for Chrome Part 2

In Part 2 of our review of Chris Pederick’s Web Developer Extension for Chrome, I cover features for design & development. When you get into designing and developing your site, ...

Web Developer Extension for Chrome Part 1

Yes, a Chrome extension that adds some SEO and design/development features that will make your life a little easier. Developer website: http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ Best Features for SEO: The extension is pretty ...

HTTP Headers and Status Codes, Part 2

Server Headings Checker overview A quick way to view a site’s status code is to use a free tool provided by seoconsultants.com (there are several other tools, I don’t like ...

HTTP Headers and Status Codes and Other Cures for Insomnia

A little personal information here (not to worry, not too much info)…I haven’t been sleeping well lately. My wife says it’s because of my over consumption of caffeine. My incredulous ...

One email a month on what is working in Utah search

Tactics we are testing, results we are seeing. No filler.