Utah Web Design Blog

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Social Media Responsibility – From Melissa Jun Rowley

Downtown Salt Lake at the Gateway lies a great little restaurant by the name of Biaggi’s.  Good food, great ambiance, and a staff that will put up with our crap.  I would like to openly apologize for complaining about the white elephant idea, it turned out to be a blast and I am glad we did it. Thanks again Vince for planning it all.   It was a good night, as the black eyed peas would say.

I am extremely proud of the team we have assembled over the last 10 years, simply a fantastic group. You’ll never meet a  more honest, hard working, talented, or funny group.  Thank you all for what you each bring to the table and making everyday something I look forward to, rather than dread.

New Road’s Young Adult Drug Treatment Center website launches. This website features jQuery, php, and some good ol fashioned search engine friendly URL rewriting. We’ve also implemented a plugin created by our own Aric B. that generates the nav in "UL/LI" format with the CMS system dynamically. And the navigation works with javascript enabled or disabled. Nice work Aric.

First off, let me applaud Microsoft for finally getting a good name for their search engine. Back in July I ran the numbers on a few of our sites and Bing was sitting at about 7% of the total search engine traffic. This time I ran the numbers on a sample of 5 of our SEO sites (to save time) that have been around awhile. By around awhile, I am talking at least 4+ years old.

• 15356 hits (5 sites/30 days of traffic)
• 12,211 from google. 79.5%
• 1,730 from yahoo. 11.3%
• 1,415 from bing. 9.2%

Keep in mind this is by no means scientific, but rather a quick look at a few of our sites. With our sites, Bing looks like it improved. However, it appears to have taken hits from Yahoo and not Google. And since Yahoo and Bing appear to be merging at some point, success needs to be measured by taking hits from Google.

Just another reason why Google is the best. Thanks for the letter and window decal.

If you haven’t already, please put your business on Google Maps. It’s free and it takes 30 seconds +-. More and more people will be getting cell phones that are powered by Google Maps. Do it for your customers. Do it for your own SEO benefit.

Do it.

Upper Limit Aviation’s new Helicopter Training website takes flight.

Website Features:
Flash
jQuery
php

Brief History of ULA:
Upper Limit Aviation, located in Salt Lake City, UT, was founded in the spring of 2004 by Lois Reid and Sean Reid, her son and business partner, as a single-aircraft flight school operating under FAR Part 61 and FAR 91 commercial operations. Currently, with 11 FAR Part 141 certificates, ULA offers flight training under both FAR Part 141 and Part 61. Additionally, ULA is eligible to utilize VA benefits and is authorized for commercial operations under FAR Part 135, 133, and 137.