Web Design Features

• Custom Website Design
• Website developed in the WordPress Content Management System
• Custom slideshow functionality
• Contact form integration
• Financing Application
• Social Media Integration
• Mobile Responsive Design, making it easily viewable from devices such as iPhones, iPads, Androids and other mobile devices

If you need help building your dream kitchen, call Troico, but if you need help building your dream website, that’s where we come in. Contact Hurricane Web Design in Maple Ridge and we’d be happy to help plan out your own website design!

Data and infographic by AWeber

1. mesothelioma settlement
   CPC: $142.67
2. mesothelioma asbestos attorney
   CPC: $121.68
3. asbestos attorney
   CPC: $117.23
4. asbestos law firms
   CPC: $106.77
5. sell annuity payment
   CPC: $95.16
6. annuity settlements
   CPC: $92.36
7. structured annuity settlement
   CPC: $92.36
8. auto donation
   CPC: $84.51
9. virtual data rooms
   CPC: $79.59
10. donating a used car
    CPC: $79.35

The top four are for class action lawsuits with the potential to make lawyers a lot of money. Therefore, they are not too concerned about paying over $100 per click. Numbers 8 and 10 are quite intriguing as I had no idea donating a used car could be that profitable to someone that they’d paid around $80 per click.

If you’re looking for help with your cost-per-click advertising, if you would like to do Search Engine Optimization to avoid having CPC advertising or if you would like to do both, contact us at Hurricane Web Design and we can help.

Search Engine Optimization

“SEO Lies, Myths & Misconceptions

By Justin Downey

SEO Myth: Search Engine Optimization’s Goal is Top Placement

This myth is as wide-spread as it is inaccurate. Search Engine Optimization’s goal is to make a site more “findable.” At JDM, we call it “Search Engine Visibility”. On average, website’s only receive 6% to 7% of their traffic from commercial search engines. A site that has undergone Search Engine Optimization should shoot for that number to increase to 10% to 30%—at best. It’s important to note that SEO is based on visibility and relevancy. That is, how well a search engine spider can read the site and index it as well as targeting search queries (keywords) that are of maximum relevancy to the site. In other words, if the site doesn’t receive the top placement you want, don’t just blame SEO—blame the content.” [ read more ]

While ranking first overall is great, getting to rank near the top can be just as beneficial. Simply put, SEO is an important piece of any companies marketing success, but that success cannot be determined by being ranked first overall. It’s important to ensure that the content you are providing is rich and provides value, keeping clients coming back on a regular basis and generating more business.

7 Dangerous Lies Your SEO Content Writer is Telling You

by Nicole Beckett – SiteProNews

Far too many of the content writers out there can’t actually write! As a result, they prey on people like you – hoping you’ll believe their promises and never notice that they don’t actually have any talent. Sadly, the odds are high that you’ve been lied to by an SEO content writer. Heck, you may have been told several lies!

There are some real doozies being told out there, but these 7 are the most common – and they’re also the most damaging to your business…[read more]

As with any service or product your purchase, it’s always good to get references before hiring an SEO content writer. We’ve seen a lot of very bad content. We had one piece of content on how SEO can benefit a personal injury lawyer sent to us for approval that said “Therefore, by making good use of SEO, lawyers can easily attract lots of clients ideal for the plummeting of their businesses.” Plummeting? I had to re-read three times to make sure that was correct.

Do your own research before hiring a content writer who understands how to write for Search Engine Optimization.

7 SEO Lies: How to know when the SEO is lying

by Mark Aaron Murnahan – awebguy.com

I was taught that it is not nice to call somebody a liar, but if you hear these things from a search engine optimizer, there is a good chance they are lying to you. They are either lying about the facts, or lying that they know the job of SEO. In either case, it is unreliable information that can cost companies a lot of money and can have some disastrous results.

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I know I’ve said this before, but avoid all SEO companies that make guarantees about ranking in the first position. Nobody but Google can make such guarantee. One of these companies may get you to the first position, but it’s likely for a keyword phrase that isn’t searched for very often. Therefore, making it much easier to rank as there is little competition.

Although, I do somewhat disagree that cold calling and emailing about SEO is a lie. A lot of people don’t understand what search engine optimization is and how it can help their business. If a business doesn’t know what it is, why would they be searching for it. By cold calling and emailing potential clients, it gives us the opportunity to explain what it is and how it works. If you’d like to know more about SEO, give Hurricane Web Design a call at 604-477-1996 or fill out the form on our Contact Us page.

5 SEO Scams You Should Avoid at All Cost!

by Wong Chendong – basicblogtips.com

Good SEO can make you a ton of money, and it’s a fact that if you know what you’re doing with it, you’ll be getting a whole lot of awesome, free traffic to your sites for as long as you’d like.

Unfortunately, there’s a lot of people out there that will promise you who-knows-what, take your money and deliver nothing but frustration.

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Always ask for testimonials/reviews from clients from whichever SEO company you choose. If they are actually doing a good job for their clients, they’d be happy to provide them to you. Make sure you get email addresses and phone numbers from these clients so that you can contact them yourself.

Also, try to avoid contracts with search engine optimization companies. We never ask for contracts and we only ask for a 30 day termination notice. If we’re not doing a good job for our clients, we don’t want them to feel as though they are stuck with us.

Give Hurricane Web Design a call at 604-477-1996 if you have any questions regarding SEO for your business.

United Breaks Guitars – The Power of Online Word of Mouth

On March 31, 2008, musician Dave Carroll was on a United flight destined from Halifax to Omaha, Nebraska. While the plane was on the tarmac, Dave saw the luggage handlers tossing guitar cases to the ground while they finished loading the other luggage, supposedly keeping the guitars separate to have the luggage bay loaded more efficiently. Concerned, Dave checked his guitar upon retrieving it in Omaha. Indeed, his $3,500 Taylor guitar had suffered a broken neck. When he tried to make a claim for the amount, United refused, saying that Carroll had not submitted the claim within the allotted 24 hour period.

Dave Carroll decided he would play the part of Academy award winning documentarian Michael Moore. He created a music video that he published to YouTube on July 6, 2008 entitled “United Breaks Guitars”. Ironic to the United allotted claim period, within 24 hours his video had 150,000 views. By July 9, that number had increased to 500,000. On the same day, United’s stock dropped 10%, costing stockholders around $180 million in value.

Social Signals Impact On Search Engine Optimization and your Business

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+, Pinterest, Flickr – the list of social sites online are now endless. People are connecting with others and figuratively shaking hands with one another around the globe. Strangers that have never met each other physically (though they may be neighbours) are talking, and much of it is about what they have experienced at a restaurant nearby, or the hotel they stayed at while visiting North America from Europe, or the dentist who stayed late one night to help a concerned parent when their child broke a tooth, or… you get the picture.

This online community is a gold mine to search engines. You’ve undoubtedly seen symbols like Google’s “+1″ and the “Like Us On Facebook!” plea on websites. When a website (maybe yours) is linked to a positive review on Facebook or Google+, the value of that review is much higher than what can be garnered by a search engine crawling your site. When looking to rank a site, it is now important that a site that has many positive comments, reviews and mentions on social media sites will see themselves higher in the search engine rankings than a site without.

What does this mean to the average business like yours? Simply this – managing social signals has become a necessity for you and your website’s search engine optimization. Whether you try to keep it in-house through hiring someone to manage these social signals or subcontracting it out to another company, it is imperative for business to listen and appeal to the online community. If not, someone else might sing a song on YouTube called “Bob’s Diner Spit In My Soup” or, even worse, there might be no discussion about Bob’s Diner at all. And Bob may find himself out of business.

James Blackburn is president of Canada West Internet Marketing based out of Edmonton, AB.

Here are 5 convincing reasons why you need a mobile site:

Visual beauty

You may be wondering why everyone can’t view your conventional site on their mobile devices. The reality is, they can. The additional reality is that your conventional website simply does not look that good on a mobile device. Do this: access your website and reduce the view on your computer’s web browser by zooming out till you have to squint to read the content on the page. I think you would agree, this is not a good viewing experience, is it?

The statistics

The numbers don’t lie. Simply put, there are more people today who utilize their mobile devices to access the web than they do their desktop computer or laptop computers. Additionally, a lot of people who are on the Internet today ONLY do so through their mobile devices. Can your business afford not to meet this significantly big sector of the market?

The cost of data transfer

A significant number of mobile customers must pay data transfer charges. Conventional websites have much more data than mobile websites, and therefore can cost people a great deal of money to view your website. Ask yourself this: how many customers are willing to have to pay you in order to have you market to them?

Navigation

As mentioned before, conventional websites are a great deal smaller on those small mobile device displays. This means that visitors to your website need to do a great deal of scrolling in order to view the whole page… and let’s be honest, website visitors would rather not work in order to view a web page. Likewise, it’s almost impossible to tap navigation buttons on such a small display when the website hasn’t been enhanced for mobile devices.

Today’s audience on the web

The truth is that a lot of people, including your potential clients, access the web by means of a mobile device. This also means that a lot of people utilize their mobile devices for a great number of things – shopping, searching, entertainment, and a whole lot more – plus these are all features you could include in your mobile site to widen your reach and increase your client base.

As you may see, there are a number of excellent reasons to design a mobile web site for your business as quickly as you can. The mobile website experts at Hurricane Web Design can help you create a mobile site for your business. Feel free to contact us at 604-477-1996 or email us at questions@hurricanewebdesign.com.

The recent Google algorithm updates in April and May have affected the rankings for a number of websites which has left many website owners wondering what to do next in regards to search engine optimization. It’s now more important than ever to make sure the content on your website is high quality and you are adhering to Google’s standards.

Atlanta SEO Company Provides Tips for Ranking Your Website After Recent Google …

“Google rolled out an update to its search ranking algorithm in April called “Penguin,” which left many website owners and businesses confused and concerned. Atlanta SEO company, Everspark Interactive provides tips for ranking your website after the …”
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In the search engine world, change is always a constant. Google reportedly makes changes to their algorithm over 500 times per year. It can be very difficult for a business owner to stay on top of these changes while focussing on their own business. If you find yourself in this position, contact a Search Engine Optimization company like Hurricane Web Design. We can take care of any algorithm changes that may affect the SEO on your website while you focus on what you do best.