One of the most significant restaurant marketing problems is obviously getting new people in the door. As many restaurant and food marketers are aware, consumers who use their cell phones to search for food convert at nearly 72%. This is often because when someone is searching for food, they are...
What are the Benefits of Performing an SEO Audit in 2019?
If your website is not found on page 1 of Google, you can lose up to 95% of potential clicks to your site, domains that slip down to Page 2 only attract 5 percent of search traffic. With this in mind, before you start working on your website to determine which...
How to Evaluate Who You Should Hire for Your SEO Needs?
Businesses today are inundated with unsolicited offers to help them get more leads, and land more sales though online marketing companies and search engine optimization consultants. You probably receive dozens of these types of emails and phone calls every week. Let’s say that you have decided you do need help...
Why Mobile Search is Important to Businsses
More and More people are searching for goods and services on their cell phones and mobile devices. Google knows this and as such will present different results when someone is searching on their phone and on the road based upon their actual location as opposed to at their home or...
Why Real Estate Agents Should Have their Own Website
When looking for homes, people surf the internet for real estate information. In past years, people surf for properties on their desktops, on maps or drive around to look for vacant residences. However, today, you can search for houses on your smartphone on the go because of the massive adoption...
VRG is Google Analyitics Certified
VRG Web Design is proud to announce that our Senior SEO Analyst, and founder, Michael Goldstein has passed Google’s certification exam for Google Analytics. Let Michael and our team help show you data from all channels that are directing traffic to your website, including: Organic Search (search engine ranking) Paid...
The SEO Advantage of Responsive Web Design
Gone are the days when the internet and mobile devices were seen as innovation. Today, they have become the norm. Why go for Responsive Web Design? Before now, most users accessed the internet from their computers alone. Recent statistics has revealed that in the past few years, there has been...
Facebook Reviews are the new backlinks
Third party reviews are now being viewed by search engines such as Google and Bing as the most important feature to ranking and have taken over that top spot from back links. This makes online feedback and evaluations such as Facebook reviews as critical to your local SEO strategy as...
Checklist for a Local SEO Audit
Most businesses thrive on traffic both online and in person from Google, Bing, Yelp and Facebook searches. In fact, with voice search becoming so important many businesses will only get visits if they appear in the top 3 local searches on Google, when someone searches for “keyword near me”. There...
How To Increase Page Load Speed In Word Press Sites
One of the key factors that Google has acknowledged as part of their calculation to rank websites in their search results page is how fast a site loads. Additionally, from a user standpoint, which Google bases many of its algorithms upon, the faster a web page loads the more likely...