Project Overview:

• Website Development
• Commercial Photography

Team Involvement:

• Gino Creglia - SacWebDesigner
• Al Golden - Golden Creative, LLC 

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The Sacramento attorneys and staff at Eason & Tambornini, A Law Corporation take a tremendous amount of pride in representing individuals, and small businesses in the following matters: workers compensation law, personal injury law, social security law, wage and hour law, business and insurance litigation, bankruptcy law, and real estate law.

Project Overview:

• Redesigned Existing Website
• Website Migration – WordPress
• Local Search Engine Optimization Campaign

Team Involvement:

• Gino Creglia - SacWebDesigner
• Al Golden - Golden Creative, LLC

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Strategic Acquisition Advisors (SAA) is a merger and acquisition advisory focused on the lower middle market in the Western United States. The majority of our clients are sellers or acquirers of privately held companies with revenues between $5 million and $500 million.

Project Overview:

• Redesigned Existing Website
• Website Migration – WordPress

Team Involvement:

• Gino Creglia - SacWebDesigner
• Al Golden - Golden Creative, LLC

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Over the last 12 months, we have used the below local business directory list extensively for our clients’ local search engine optimization campaigns. In our opinion, the list is the most comprehensive collection of local business citation sources currently available on the Internet.

Data Aggregators

Infogroup – https://www.expressupdateusa.com/

Acxiom – http://www.mybusinesslistingmanager.com/AddBusiness.aspx

Localeze – http://webapp.localeze.com/directory/search.aspx

Paid Business Listings

Best of the Web Local – http://local.botw.org/helpcenter/premiumproduct.aspx

JudysBook – http://www.judysbook.com/

UniversalBusinessListing – https://www.ubl.org/Index.aspx

Dun and Bradstreet – https://www.dandb.com/credibility-review/

Yahoo Directory - http://dir.yahoo.com/

BBB – http://www.bbb.org/

Business.com – http://www.business.com

Business Listings 

Google Places - http://www.google.com/places/

Bing Business Portal - http://www.bing.com/businessportal

Yahoo Local Listing – http://listings.local.yahoo.com/

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/business

Linkedin – http://learn.linkedin.com/company-pages/

HopStop – http://www.hopstop.com/ypages?action=register

LocalDatabase – http://www.localdatabase.com/plans.html

MapQuest -  https://listings.mapquest.com/apps/listing

Yelp – https://biz.yelp.com/support

Citysearch – https://myaccount.citygrid.com/login

Yellowbook – http://corporate.yellowbook.com/advertise/

Superpages – http://www.supermedia.com/

Foursquare – https://foursquare.com/add_venue

CitySquares – http://citysquares.com/user/register?destination=business/standard

EZlocal – https://secure.ezlocal.com/newbusiness/find.aspx

GetFave - http://www.getfave.com

Local.com – https://advertise.local.com/

LocalPages – http://www.localpages.com/advertise/free_listing/

MerchantCircle – http://www.merchantcircle.com/signup/

MojoPages – http://www.mojopages.com/biz/signup

ShowMeLocal – http://www.showmelocal.com/businessregistration.aspx

Tupalo – http://tupalo.com/en/accounts?unauthenticated=true

WhitePages – http://www.whitepages.com/listing

YellowBot – http://www.yellowbot.com/submit/newbusiness

Ziplocal – http://www.ziplocal.com/olc/lookup.faces

Kudzu – https://register.kudzu.com/packageSelect.do

Hotfrog – http://www.hotfrog.com/AddYourBusiness.aspx

Manta – http://www.manta.com/claim

Angies List – https://business.angieslist.com/

YellowUSA – http://www.yellowusa.com/add-your-business.cfm

Zidster – http://www.zidster.com/

City Data – http://www.city-data.com/profiles/add

Directory Central – http://www.directorycentral.com/business/company-add/

B2B Yellowpages – https://www.b2byellowpages.com/signup-new/signup.cgi?24.10

BizReferrals – http://www.ecarnegietech.com/account/new?return_to=%2Fbusinesses%2Fnew&signup_type=business&view=add

ShopCity – http://www.shopcity.com/add/?wizard=yes&package=10000004

Business Journal – http://businessdirectory.bizjournals.com/advertise

BlueDoorWay – http://bluedoorway.com/add-new-business.html

JustClickLocal -  http://www.justclicklocal.com/user/join

DiscoverOurTown – http://www.discoverourtown.com/add/

Matchpoint – https://providers.matchpoint.com/login.htm

Brownbook – http://www.brownbook.net/business/add/

MetroBot – http://www2.metrobot.com/def.cfm?j=1

Yellowee - http://biz.yellowee.com/steps/find-your-business

YellowAssitance – http://www.yellowassistance.com/frmBusinessUpdate.aspx

Infignos – http://www.infignos.com/addlisting/speedlist.cfm

ThinkLocal – http://www.thinklocal.com/Business-Signup.aspx

YellowPages – https://adsolutions.att.com/SSO/Login

iBegin – http://www.ibegin.com/business-center/submit/

MagicYellow – http://www.magicyellow.com/add-your-business.cfm

Internet 800 Directory – http://inter800.com/freelist.htm

YellowPageCity – http://www.yellowpagecity.com/Misc/ManageListing.asp

SeekItLocal – http://www.seekitlocal.com/freelisting.aspx

MacraesBluebook – http://www.macraesbluebook.com/index.cfm

Customer Lobby – https://www.customerlobby.com/free-trial

916Mall – http://www.916mall.com/formpage.htm

Valuecom – http://www.valuecom.com/add_listing.html

Discover Our Town – http://www.discoverourtown.com/add/

Chamber of Commerce – http://www.chamberofcommerce.com/overview/?j=addbiz

uscity – http://uscity.net/

CliqSearch – http://www.cliqsearch.com/add_business

thumbtack – http://www.thumbtack.com/

ServiceMagic – http://www.servicemagic.com/directory/

My Local Services – http://www.mylocalservices.com/list_your_business.php

Yellowise – http://www.yellowise.com/create-business#

eLocal – http://www.elocal.com/sign-up#!/category_id=

Insider Pages – http://www.insiderpages.com

GetFave – http://www.getfave.com

Post-Gazette – https://post-gazette.partners.local.com/

Where to Go -  http://www.wheretogo.com/

City Slick – https://www.cityslick.net/reg.php

BizHWY – http://www.bizhwy.com/addlisting.php

Map Insight – http://mapinsight.teleatlas.com/mapfeedback/index.php

Zip Codez – http://www.zipcodez.com/advertiser/adv_search_business.php

Company – https://www.company.com/register.htm

SmartGuy – http://www.smartguy.com/register.asp

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If you already have a Google+ Business page (or create one) then you can now merge that Google+ Business page with your existing G+ Local page by following the new verification procedure.

The process is initiated from the Google+ Business page. Any manager of the page can initiate the process which will require postcard verification even if the email addresses match between the G+ Business page and your Dashboard. Apparently, in several months, a more automatic merge will be available to those businesses that have only a Google+Local Page/Dashboard.

Here are the steps to the process:

Google has noted that message being blocked is a known bug that is being fixed):…More at Step by Step Guide to the Google+ Business/Local Merge Verification Process

We are looking forward to using the new platform. Google+ Local will be an excellent tool for distributing company information to prospective and current clients.

More Reading

• What to Do While Google Upgrades the Google+ Local Pages to Google+ Pages
• What Happens if Google+ Fails To Launch?
• Will You Take Advantage of Google Plus Local Pages Indexing?
• Google+ Rolling Out Vanity URLs
• Can You Rank Well in Local Google without Revealing Your Street Address Anywhere?

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Welcome to The Grove – Your Olive Oil Resource and Marketplace. It is our mission and pleasure to bring you into the wonderful world of olive oil. The Grove is a place where you will find a wealth of valuable information relating to all varieties of olive oil, complementary balsamic vinegars, tantalizing recipes from around the world, and health and beauty benefits that will enrich your life.

Project Overview:

• New WordPress Website
• Content Creation
• Affiliate Marketing
• Global Search Engine Optimization Campaign

Team Involvement:

• Gino Creglia - SacWebDesigner
• Alli Hopkins - Edits by Alli
• Al Golden - Golden Creative, LLC

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BONJOUR! WELCOME TO TRÈS FABU! The Quintessential Wedding and Event Planner. We are ready to assist you with the planning, design, and coordination of your wedding, celebration, or special gathering… As the owner of Très Fabu, I bring more than 12 years of planning expertise to my clients, and a strong team with a passion for delivering personalized and memorable experiences.

Project Overview:

• Redesigned Existing Website
• Website Migration – WordPress
• Content Creation
• Local Search Engine Optimization Campaign

Team Involvement:

• Gino Creglia – SacWebDesigner
• Alli Hopkins - Edits by Alli
• Al Golden - Golden Creative, LLC

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Sierra Foothills Law is a law practice based in the Sierra Foothills of Northern California serving the communities of Folsom, El Dorado Hills, Granite Bay, Roseville, and Cameron Park in Sacramento, El Dorado, and Placer counties.

Project Overview:

• New WordPress Website Design
• Local Search Engine Optimization Campaign

Team Involvement:

Gino Creglia – SacWebDesigner

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Premium Heating and Air Conditioning, Inc. is a family-owned and operated company. They provide honest, reliable, air conditioning and heating repair and service, installations of high efficiency air conditioning and heating systems, and maintenance for your HVAC system. Premium provides service to both residential and commercial customers in the greater Sacramento Area.

Project Overview:

Team Involvement:

• Gino Creglia – SacWebDesigner
• Al Golden – Golden Creative, LLC

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SacWebDesigner has completed its first realtor website design, a successful and very technical project that involved writing, photography, online forms, and real time listings. The project commenced at the beginning of December 2010 and launched just two months later.

Victoria Witham’s website is very user-friendly, enabling current clients to easily find resources and potential clients to search for listed homes and quickly fill in forms that are divided for buyers, sellers, and short sale sellers. With instant emails sent directly to Victoria with the specifics of each potential client’s information, she is able to quickly respond and begin assisting them.

The website also includes a blog, where Victoria will be keeping readers informed and educated about important issues in the realty world.

“Gino created the exact look and feel I was hoping to achieve for my website. He is very straightforward and focused in his approach and with my hectic schedule this was a critical aspect to the successful completion of my website!  Working with Alli is also a pleasure. I felt comfortable working with her from the very first meeting. She just gets it done and I appreciate her prompt response. She continues to help out with several ongoing projects for the website.  The two of them as a team complement each other and made the whole process seamless. I am looking forward to creating phase two of my website! Thank you Gino and Alli for being there in the beginning and I am excited about the future phases and projects we will work on together.” Victoria Witham, Witham Real Estate Group

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• National Media (CNN, Fox, CNBC, etc.)
• Video (YouTube)
• Sponsorship
• Local Newspaper
• City, County, or State
• Web Directories
• Organizations
• Wikipedia Backlink
• Linkbait Blog Post (i.e, Infographics, Top Ten List, Tips and Tricks, etc.)
• RSS Directory Submissions
• .edu, .gov, or .org Websites
• Existing Relationships with Suppliers and Trade Associations
• Digital PR – Press Releases, Product Reviews, etc.
• Guest Blogger
• Chamber of Commerce
• Trade and Civic Associations
• Advocacy Groups
• Support Groups
• Professional Fraternities and Sororities
• Better Business Bureau
• Trade Magazines
• Social Media

The above list only scratches the surface when it comes to link building strategies. For more information on link building, please read Jason Acidre’s post on “Link Building in 2012″. Jason, thank you for taking the time to share your link building techniques.

There are tons of things happening and changing in the link building game since the start of the year, from the finer value being given to social signals, changes in the search results (primarily with Search plus your World and continuous roll out of different versions of Panda update), expected demise of link networks, to the improvements made by Google in interpreting the use of anchor texts to determine relevance.

Most of these changes clearly denote that we all have to adapt and evolve as well with how we market, brand and make our websites more visible through link building.

Ethical link acquisition has grown more significant, especially nowadays, wherein the practice’s results affect and encompass other areas of online marketing if done in large scale and targeted approach, such as:

• Referring click-through visitors
• Building brand signals
• Keeping the site regularly crawled and indexed by search engines
• Improving search rankings
• Lead generation

But of course, we always have to remember that link development is only one part of the pie – and an important one that makes SEO as a whole – considering that to really be efficient in getting great results from link building requires a well-optimized site/landing page (for search, UX and conversions). Marrying a solid on-site and off-site campaign is the key to attaining ROI-driven results, as always….More at Link Building in 2012: Scalable Link Building

Incorporating link building strategies as outlined in this post will definitely help increase your website’s page ranking with search engines. Remember, natural links are the way to go in optimizing your website for 2012 and beyond.

More Reading

• Linking 2012 – Effective Link Building Techniques in 2012
• Linklove Boston 2012 Recap
• Interview with Link Building Expert Wil Reynolds
• LinkLove London 2012 – Round Up

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Yes, prospecting for link building opportunities and reaching out to webmasters to drive new links back to your website can be done for free – but there are plenty of great tools out there that can make the process much easier and much faster!

Check out any of the following options if you need a kick in the pants to take your link building campaigns to the next level:

Tool #1 – Majestic SEO

Majestic SEO is a website browser that allows you to see which sites are linking to your competitors’ pages, allowing you to both determine how difficult it will be to beat them in the SERPs and identify new opportunities to build links back to your own site.  The program offers a free report for any site you control (which can be especially useful in ensuring link sources are still linking back to your website), though to access the full spectrum of data this site provides, you’ll need to upgrade to the paid version.

Tool #2 – Open Site Explorer

The SEOMoz Open Site Explorer offers similar features as MajesticSEO, although you’re able to access slightly more information with this program’s free version.  Enter your competitors’ websites into the tool and pay special attention to their Inbound Links, Linking Domains and Anchor Text – all of which may help inform your own link building strategy.  For even more access, including data on social shares across Facebook, Google+ and Twitter, consider upgrading to the paid version of the tool….More at 15 Best Link Building Tools

We highly recommend evaluating the fifteen (15) link building tools mentioned in Sujan’s article. Using link building tools will undoubtedly help cultivate authoritative links for your website.

More Reading on Link Building

• Content Strategy vs. Link Building
• Outreach Letters for Link Building [Real Examples]
• Content Auditing for Link Builders – Why You Should Do It, Tips, and a Spreadsheet

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After Google finally took down a few blog networks, I think we can all sleep a little bit better knowing that what we’ve been telling our clients all these years & what we’re now seeing in the SERPs is starting to look a lot more similar.

But at the same time, another issue is on the horizon. These seemingly public outings of these blog networks have many SEOs realizing that Google isn’t just ignoring some of these network links – they’re penalizing webmasters for them.

Google Bowling, which I now call Negative SEO, isn’t new. There’s even a service for it (quote from their site: “we only use legal means to ensure your competitors get banned”. It’s hard not to laugh at that).

The real issue here is that people are sharing their alerts from Webmaster Tools showing that Google is detecting unnatural links, a direct result of the blog networks they’re a part of. And since these networks are now publicly known to be bad, and that they don’t cost much time or money to get links from, some are drowning their competitor’s link profiles in them….More at After Deindexing, Negative SEO Becomes A Major Issue

At SacWebDesigner, we encourage our clients to practice SEO techniques in accordance with Google’s Search Engine Optimization and Webmaster Guidelines.  If you manage your SEO Campaign following the guidelines, you will never have to worry about receiving a penalty notice from Google.

More Reading about Google Deindexing Blog Network Sites:

• An Opinion on the Google “Deindexing Blog Networks” News
• Google Cracking Down on “Unnatural” Links, Deindexing Blog Networks
• Unnatural Link Warnings and Blog Networks

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Here’s the list of our Top WordPress Plugins for 2012

WP-Optimize - Definitely one of the Top WordPress Plugins for 2012. WP-Optimize is an excellent tool to help keep your database clean by removing all post revisions and auto draft posts, cleaning marked spam and unapproved comments, and optimizing your website’s database tables.

Contact Form 7 - Are you looking for a contact form plugin for WordPress? If you value simplicity and flexibility, Contact Form 7 is a great choice. It allows you to flexibly design the form and email it. You can manage multiple contact forms as well. In addition, it supports many features including AJAX submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering, file uploading, etc.

Google XML Sitemaps - This is one of the Top WordPress Plugins that generates a special XML sitemap which will helps search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog and website.

Easy Columns - Easy Columns provides the shortcodes to create a grid system or magazine style columns for laying out your pages just the way you need them. Using shortcodes for 1/4, 1/2, 1/3, 2/3, 3/4, 1/5, 2/5, and 3/5 columns, you can insert at least 30 unique variations of columns on any page or post. Quickly add columns to your pages from the editor with an easy to use “pick n’ click” interface!

Google Analyticator - Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google’s Analytics. After enabling this top WordPress plugin, visit the settings page and enter your Google Analytics’ UID and enable logging.

WPtouch Pro - WPtouch Pro is one of the Top WordPress Plugins we use to build mobile websites tailored for Apple iPhone / iPod touch / iPad, Google Android, Blackberry Storm & Torch and other touch mobile devices.

WP Super Cache - WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates HTML files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.

WP Realtime Sitemap - Adds a sitemap to your WordPress blog that is always up-to-date.

Share Buttons by Lockerz / AddToAny - Helps people share, bookmark, and email your posts & pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, StumbleUpon, Digg and many more.

TinyMCE – Javascript WYSIWYG Editor – One of the Top WordPress Plugins, TinyMCE Javascript Editor is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control released as Open Source under LGPL by Moxiecode Systems AB.

NextGEN Gallery - NextGEN Gallery is a fully integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a slideshow option.

Facebook Social Plugin Widgets - Adds three facebook social plugins as WordPress widgets: Facebook Recommendations, Facebook Activity Feed, and the Facebook Like Box.

Newsletter Sign-Up - Adds various ways for your visitors to sign-up to your mailing list (checkbox, widget, form).

Nivo Slider - The Nivo Slider is world renowned as the most beautiful and easy to use slider on the market. Completely free and totally open source, there literally is no better way to make your website look totally stunning.

WP e-Commerce - WP e-Commerce is a robust WordPress Plugin suitable for anyone who wants to start selling products, downloads or services online.

Top WordPress Plugins Summary

There are over 18,000 plugins available on WordPress’s website.  Having spent the last year evaluating plugins for our client’s websites, we feel the above list is definitely one of the Top WordPress Plugins list for 2012.

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