It happens every day, small, medium and even large companies spend a fortune building fancy new websites. They fuss over the design, whether the drop shadows are in the right place and whether the home page has too much text which would spoil the artistry of the fancy photos that are chosen. As an NH… Read More
Small and even medium sized businesses have long relied on their relatives, friends and other semi tech savvy people to be their “website design agency.” And it worked just find for a number of years. But, as website design & development becomes ever more sophisticated and it has increasingly become hard to rank in the… Read More
There’s a glaring problem with modern website design and development. First, it’s not very modern. Far too many web shops are comprised of one or two people. They are expected to know all the software, coding, SEO techniques, content creation, social media, digital marketing and a whole host of other capabilities. All of the above… Read More
Can a web design company fix a damaged reputation? We can!
By: | January 1, 2014“Never do anything in your life that you wouldn’t want to see in the paper the next day.” This wise advice came from a wise journalist I knew many years ago. Of course, this same advice applies to the Internet, perhaps even more so. After all, after a bad story appears in the newspaper it… Read More
There’s a real conundrum for website design and development agencies and their clients. Clients (and presumably the users of their websites) absolutely love clean, simple, beautifully designed home pages. Unfortunately, Google hates them. Well, they don’t really hate them, per se, but they do ignore them, largely because there is no text. Google search algorithms… Read More
Passwords, Domains and Your Company
By: | October 2, 2013There isn’t a week that goes by that I don’t get a call from a frantic customer that involves their website and loss of control of that site. It always amazes us at Kirk that companies entrust their customer face to an a person who has little vested interest in the success of the company. … Read More
How to deal with local SEO
By: | August 16, 2013As an NH SEO company, we often get asked what is the best way to optimize for the local level? First, companies know who their customers are. Where are they located? Are they primarily located in their state or are more located nationally? Who do they want to sell to now and in the future?… Read More
Website Design and Development – Understanding the Business Requirments
By: | May 12, 2013About 20% of our web projects are failed projects that were started with another Website Design and Development company. They will find us through search or through other trusted partners as a company that can help rebuild their failed project. Most Website Design and Development companies come from a back ground of web development, not… Read More
Website design and development is not enough anymore
By: | April 15, 2013In the old days you could hire a website design and development person who knew a couple of coding languages, throw up a site and you were in business. As the web grew more sophisticated you hired a web design agency to update or redesign your site. But hire a typical website design and development… Read More
The SEO company you don’t know can hurt you
By: | April 10, 2013Beware the fly-by-night SEO company. We meet with people all the time who have spent years building valuable e-commerce sites only to be done in by one unscrupulous SEO NH company. Take for example, the company who hired an SEO company that promised to add 29,000 back links per month to their site in order… Read More
After an extensive two-year investigation, the Federal Trade Commission has determined that the way Google arranges search results is not a violation of antitrust or anti-competition laws. “While not everything Google did was beneficial, on balance we did not believe that the evidence supported an FTC challenge to this aspect of Google’s business under American… Read More
E commerce goes mobile
By: | March 5, 2013As a website design and development company it’s our job to stay at the leading edge of all things web. When it comes to e commerce, we’re helping our clients move ecommerce to mobile and tablet technologies. Given that there are about 80 million smart phones out there it doesn’t take a website design and… Read More
Joining forces: When digital and traditional come together it can be a beautiful thing
By: | February 28, 2013As a website design and development company, we’re doing more and more work for traditional ad agencies, marketing firms and PR firms. There are several reasons for this: First, the aforementioned know that, while they can create the one-off website, they can’t do all of the highly integrated work that a good website design &… Read More
New Hampshire Marketing. It’s not the same as marketing in many places
By: | February 26, 2013New Hampshire marketing is a different animal than marketing in many other states. First, we have hundreds of highly sophisticated technical software and electronics firm that have very specific B-to-B marketing needs. Many are startups and, as such, they have lots of money and an incredible product, but they don’t have any idea how to… Read More
How to Select an SEO company
By: | February 21, 2013You may not understand all there is to know about search engine optimization, but you know you need it. So you decide to hire and SEO company. That’s an option that’s fraught with danger. That is, unless you know how to select an SEO company. Sadly, there are a lot of SEO company fraudsters out… Read More
